About
OERhub as a search engine
The OERhub.at is a search engine for open educational resources (OER) from the Austrian higher education sector. The OER repositories of the following universities are currently connected to the OERhub:
- Graz University of Technology
- University of Graz
- University of Innsbruck
- University of Vienna
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
- FH Kärnten
The OERhub.at
OER can be searched for and found on www. oerhub.at and then either reused or processed. In this way, the OERhub will create an overarching infrastructure beyond the local technical infrastructures (e.g. online archives such as repositories) in order to make it easier for teachers to find OER from the entire Austrian higher education area.
The OERhub as an open source project is available at the following link:
Context of origin: the ‘Open Education Austria Advanced’ project
The prototype for this search engine was developed as part of the ‘Open Education Austria’ project (2016-2018), which is being continuously developed at the University of Vienna as part of the ‘Open Education Austria Advanced’ project (project duration 01/03/2020-28/02/2024).
The aim of the project of Austrian universities was the joint development of a national infrastructure for Open Educational Resources (OER). With the cooperation of service institutions, such as e-learning centres, central IT services and libraries of the partner universities, services were created to support teachers in the creation of OER materials for studying and teaching.