• Didactical Framework: Outlines the design of courses with clearly defined target groups, learning outcomes, instructional approaches, and social interaction formats.
• OER Production & Licensing: Offers guidance on producing, licensing, and integrating OER using Creative Commons frameworks.
• Collaborative Learning: Details the design of tasks that promote group work and peer collaboration, resulting in learner-generated OER content.
• Gamification & Engagement: Explores techniques such as gamified activities, icebreakers, and the use of learning analytics to motivate and support learners.
• Course Piloting & Implementation: Provides a step-by-step approach for piloting courses, coordinating across institutions, and gathering feedback from learners and moderators.
• Certification & Recognition: Defines a dual-certification model (attendance and achievement), supported by workload-based ECTS alignment (2 ECTS per course).
• Quality Assurance: Establishes quality evaluation mechanisms for course content, learner engagement, and the OER outputs themselves.

This methodology is more than a how-to guide:
It empowers higher education teachers to act as multipliers, transferring digital competencies to peers while engaging students in active knowledge construction. Through collaborative activities, learners co-develop content that remains openly accessible in a central OER Repository, fostering a culture of openness, reusability, and sustainability in education.

By combining pedagogical innovation with practical implementation tools, the guidelines pave the way for a scalable and adaptable model of open, collaborative learning that can be applied across institutions, disciplines, and national borders.

• University lecturers and instructors
• Digital learning designers
• Curriculum developers
• Teacher trainers and academic developers
• Higher education institutions seeking to integrate OER and collaborative online learning in their programmes