Open-education-switzerland
Introduction
This page is created in March 2023, within the participation / organisation of two events around a Swiss perspective on Open Education: the Open Education Day and the OER Dynamic coalition.
The need to map who is doing what in Switzerland with regard to Open Education is certainly present to join forces for the future.
Projects and specificities
Training to digital skills with and through Open Educational Resources and Open Platforms
Swiss Digital Skills Academy with Graasp plateform to create and share OER (EPFL lead)
OER Creator Workshop in 2022 (ZHAW lead)
OER competence centre at the ZHAW University library with OER lessons, coaching, and workshops for teaching staff as well as (ZHAW)
Step by Step Guide for the Creation of OER (under CC BY 4.0) (ZHAW)
Opening Higher Education - How to strengthen university teaching with open educational resources (Uni Basel)
Atelier REL (2022) (Uni Geneva)
OER entdecken (PH Bern)
FacLab (Uni Geneva)
Community building
SIG OER Eduhub.ch
Open Education week 2023, Campus Luzern
Policies
ZHAW OER policy
OER archive
Currently three solutions are studied within their inter-operability: EduSharing, Graasp and MoodleNet (ZHAW, EPFL, BFH).
Research
SNSF supported projects: roadmap at the epistemic level ; research methods education in the social sciences
AUF supported: Scientific multilingual journal on Open Education
LHMENA supported: OpenMedScholars
National institutional level
Swissuniversities: strategy and planning 2025-8