Networking, Expanding and Strengthening the OER community OpenRewi

The teaching and learning situation during the coronavirus pandemic has made it clear how important open
educational resources (OER) are for equal opportunities in education. In law, however,
OER are still the exception. The implementation and design of a sustainable and
complementary ecosystem for legal OER requires a broad spectrum of offerings for the
legal community. The project aims to expand and strengthen the only community for open legal
educational materials to date, the "Initiative for Open Legal Studies (OpenRewi)", which aims to help open teaching and
learning materials in legal studies achieve a breakthrough,
and promote networking with other OER communities. OpenRewi was founded in 2020
to support decentralised, autonomous and cooperative communities of practice
(CoPs) in the creation of high-quality and openly licensed legal teaching and
learning materials under one roof. The project will (1) sustainably strengthen the OpenRewi network through
professionalisation of the organisation and (2) through the development of specialist expertise and
support services for the CoPs. Measures will be taken to attract new
OER stakeholders and to network with other OER communities (3). In addition,
will be accompanied by research into the legal didactic aspects of legal OER (4).
The idea of OER will be publicised across the breadth of German legal scholarship; at the same time,
will create a Germany-wide, inclusive forum for Open Educational Practices (OEP) that encourages and invites
OER to be established across the board in legal scholarship. This will make a broad-based contribution to the
realisation of a sustainable OER-promoting ecosystem in digital education. In order to ensure the
knowledge and technology transfer of the results achieved in the project, they will be continuously documented
and published open access.