26.11.2025, 09:00–09:45 o'clock (Europe/Berlin), Orange Room
Accessing high-quality OER can be challenging for higher education staff: resources are scattered, licenses unclear, and LMS integration is often complex.
This session presents a plugin for the LMS Moodle, developed at the University of Vienna. It enables an easy and practical workflow for access to OER by making OERhub.at, Austria’s national OER metasearch engine. Teachers are able to search and link OER directly within Moodle.
Developed within the 'Open Education Austria Advanced' program, the plugin was co-created by teaching & learning experts, IT and library services. Iterative user testing ensured usability, transparency, and legal clarity.
Participants will leave with inspiration, practical insights, and guiding questions for fostering OER integration and open practices at their own institutions.
Furthermore they will get an insight of what is planned for the plugin in future.
Beginners, Advanced, Professionals
Additional information – Language of the session –English
Claudia Hackl advises universities on integrating Open Educational Resources (OER) and promotes knowledge exchange within Austria’s Shared-OER-Services. She focuses on the intersection of Open Education and Open Science, develops training for educators, and contributes to OER infrastructure at the University of Vienna. She teaches OER, research data management, and digital learning, with academic roots in education, computer science, and library science from Vienna and Humboldt Universities.
Martin W. Reichel is working at the Stabsstelle E-Learning/ Computer Center of the University of Vienna.
With his team he is responsible for designing and developing new plugins as well as the enhancement of existing plugins - for their own purpose as well as for the Academic Moodle Cooperation (AMC), an association of Austrian academic educatinal institutions.