![]() The synopsis is based on preparatory work by other authors (Blees, Deimann, Seipel, Hirschmann, & Muuß-Merholz, 2015 Kreitlein & Newrly, 2015 Orr, Neumann, & Muuss-Merholz, 2017 Tschofen, 2014) and on our own contributions (e.g. Therefore, we will describe projects and the status quo of OER in continuing education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article we like to give an overview of the current status of OER in German-speaking European countries. This article provides an answer to the following research question: Where do the German-speaking European countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) currently stand concerning OER in the field of adult / continuing education? But what is the current status? Research question and methodology It is to be expected that with the increase in digitization and the resulting increase in awareness and prosecution of copyright infringements, interest in OER and its use will also increase in order to be able to deal with third-party materials in a legally compliant manner. Bündnis Freie Bildung, 2015 Ebner et al., 2016, Schaffert & Geser, 2008 Schön, Ebner, & Lienhardt, 2011). Three license options of the Creative Commons licenses are most widespread: CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC 0 (cf. In order for this to be legally possible, the materials must be provided with appropriate declarations or, better still, so-called “free” or “open” licensed. Open educational resources can also be reproduced, printed, modified and republished (cf. The term “free educational materials” is used synonymously (Bündnis Freie Bildung, 2018). Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials that are deliberately made freely accessible for use by others. Therefore, the development and availability of so-called “open educational resources” might be of big interest in German speaking countries in the field of adult/continuing education (Ebner et al., 2015). And it is known from surveys that adult educators like to create their own course materials and also use materials from others (cf. increasingly also in continuing vocational training, especially in continuing training in huge companies and in occupations where people work on computers - situations that violate strong copyright law are occurring more and more frequently (cf. On the other side, german stakeholders foresee that information technologies and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) offerings will be increasingly used in continuing education (e.g. Although the Internet would allow to share learning materials for free, copyright and no existing “fair use” regulation limits the use dramatically as well. Today, however, the courses themselves have to be paid and are not free of charge. ![]() at Vienna Adult Education Centres, are partly free of charge. ![]() libraries and popular science lectures (Dostal, 2008) - and even today lectures, e.g. The first initiatives, then called “Volksbildung”, were free of charge - e.g. The former and basic idea of general adult education institutions in German-speaking Europe was that education has to be openly accessible and for free. ![]()
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