Session materials for "FAIRifying Open Educational Resources"

Slides and participant document from session 1.5 "FAIRifying Open Educational Materials", organized as part of the Netherlands National Open Science Festival on August 31st, 2023 at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Abstract

In the spirit of "practicing what we preach," this interactive workshop aims to extend the application of FAIR principles to Open Educational Resources. The FAIR principles ensure that research outputs are discoverable by machines (e.g., search engines), fostering greater accessibility and reusability. While the focus has typically been on data and software, we believe that the same logic can be applied to other types of Open Science outputs. In this workshop, we will discuss how to make educational resources Open and FAIR, using practical examples from previous works at our institutions, such as the Data Privacy Handbook and the Qualitative FAIR Data Coursebook. Next, workshop participants will learn how to make their own educational resources FAIR, among others by annotating them with Schema vocabularies to improve their discoverability. The workshop is designed for teachers, academics and the research support community interested in making Open Educational Resources more FAIR.