Goal

The Open and Online Education Libraries working group (B-OOO) is a low-threshold partnership of staff from university libraries, university of applied science libraries and SURF. We focus on strengthening the role of libraries in supporting education and the development of open online education and open online educational materials.

We pass on knowledge and skills through workshops and meetings. In this way, we can better support teachers in developing, sharing and reusing digital educational resources. We want to use smart techniques to make learning materials easier to find. In this way, we try to keep our knowledge up to date as far as possible.

The working group has good international connections through SPARC Europe.

We have joined Npuls‘ Transformation Hub of Digital Learning Resources. Together, we will ensure that by 2032, all digital learning resources are accessible to everyone anywhere, anytime, so that everyone can and may (re)use that knowledge. As part of the working group, we provide input from the library on various components and organise professional development activities for SHB and UKB colleagues, so that we, as a library, can best support them in achieving their goals.

2025 activitities B-OOO in relation to Npuls en other working groups

For more information and the current offer of the workshop, please visit the website of the Open and Online Education Libraries working group (in Dutch).

Members

The working group has a broad composition with about 45 outer ring members and a core group of approximately 20 members . Employees of university libraries and of university of applied science libraries who are interested in the development of (open) educational materials are very welcome. You can sign up for the working group here.

Chair: Brenda Lems – Hogeschool Rotterdam/Npuls
Vice-chair: Irma van Houts – HAN University of Applied Sciences/Npuls
Liaison UKB: Irene Haslinger – TU Delft
Liaison SURF/Npuls: Sylvia Moes – SURF/NPULS
Liaison SHB: Sarah Zaunbrecher – Saxion