VEStOR: Networking, Expansion, Strengthening of the OER Community OpenRewi

VEStOR expands and strengthens OpenRewi e.V., so far the only community for open legal education materials in law, which aims to promote the breakthrough of open teaching and learning materials in legal studies, and to promote networking with other OER communities.

The project is being implemented as a joint project together with the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Prof. Dr. Nikolas Eisentraut. While the LUH will use two doctoral positions to advance research into the legal didactic aspects of legal OER and the significance of artificial intelligence for OER in law, the FHP will primarily focus on practical and application-related questions of expansion, strengthening and networking. This involves the professionalisation of the organisation and the development and expansion of the infrastructure and service offerings (professional competence development and support services for the textbook projects), with the aim of providing the OpenRewi OER community better support in the implementation of open teaching and learning materials in law. In addition to professionalising and strengthening the community, the aim is to extend it and promote its networking with other OER communities. Last but not least, the aim is to develop business models for the sustainable financing and provision of existing and future services and (e.g. publication) offerings.

The project addresses the entire legal community in Germany that deals with teaching materials. The aim is for OpenRewi to establish itself as a central, cross-university network for the publication of open, quality-assured legal teaching and learning materials during the course of the project. Through an inclusive forum for Open Educational Practices (OEP), which encourages and invites the establishment of OER across the board in legal studies, a broadly effective contribution will be made to the realisation of a sustainable OER-promoting ecosystem in digital education.

The BMBF project is being realised in implementation of the guideline for funding projects to strengthen, expand and network OER communities (focus within the OER strategy for the realisation of a sustainable OER-promoting ecosystem in digital education) and is being carried out in close cooperation with the national community office for OER, the OpenRewi e. V. association, which has yet to be appointed by the BMBF.