Insights into the OER-Infrastructure in Germany
11-11-2025 , Tango 1

Edu-sharing.net e.V. develops infrastructure solutions to support Open Educational Resources (OER) across all educational sectors in Germany. The presentation showcases technologies for the automated harvesting, management, quality assurance,
and dissemination of educational content—such as crawlers, metadata generators, and adaptive topic pages. It also introduces a community-based workflow that transforms OER collections into machine-readable knowledge structures, enabling the training of AI systems and the generation of AI-based educational content.


The organization edu-sharing.net e.V. develops open source infrastructure solutions that support Open Educational Resources (OER) across all educational sectors in Germany. This presentation highlights key technologies and workflows for the automated harvesting, management, quality assurance and dissemination of educational resources—including generic crawlers, metadata generators, automated quality checks, and adaptive topic pages tailored to specific audiences.
Additionally, the presentation shows a community-based workflow that transforms OER collections into machine-readable knowledge structures that can be utilized to train and validate AI systems as well as to power AI-generated educational content.
Last but not least the presentation shares results from a project funded by the German ministry that aims to enhance OER infrastructures through a series of idea competitions and hackathons.