A Competence Framework for Open Educational Resources: The Case of the Public Sector Franziska Voß 1(&) , Thomas De Fries 1 , Sabine Möbs 2 , Jan M. Pawlowski 1(&) , Celina Raf fl 2 , and Julia Stoffregen 1 1 Computer Science Institute, Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Bottrop, Germany {franziska.voss,thomas.de-fries,jan.pawlowski, julia.stoffregen}@hs-ruhrwest.de 2 Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Friedrichstraße 14, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany {moebs,raffl}@dhbw-heidenheim.de Abstract. Although Open Educational Resources (OER) initially aimed to facilitate access to educational topics in school, these tools and contents may be used in the public sector, for example, embedded in an e-learning concept. According to Stoffregen [1], this may still seem quite challenging but getting there is possible as also Nurhas et al. [2] have pointed out. In this paper, we therefore present an initial OER competence framework to successfully use OER also in the public admiration. Our framework aims to provide a first set of competences that may be specific for the public sector, but also abilities one may find in various industries, such as acquiring technical, legal or collaborative skills that are needed to implement a sustainable strategy for the use of OER in the respective organization. Therefore, we will present two examples for its practical application: a questionnaire for self-assessment and an example for an OER training concept. Keywords: Open Educational Resources Á OER Á Competences Competence framework Á Public sector Á Public administration 1 Introduction The public administration’s approach towards the re-use and production of OER has been rather timid in the past years. Once a grass root movement, they may now find their way into the public of fices thanks to the open government movement in Germany. In this paper, we develop a competence framework regarding the production, the (re) use, and the implementation of the OER concept in organizational structures, namely in public administration. The framework describes the competences for various levels of OER activities and roles: users, developers and disseminators. The framework was developed in the German project ÖWR (Offene Wissensressources im öffentlichen Sektor), which aims at competence development and sensitisation of the public administration in Germany with regard to OER by addressing in particular employees, © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 L. Uden et al. (Eds.): LTEC 2018, CCIS 870, pp. 80–92, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95522-3_8