Developing Sustainable Open Educational Resources for Teaching Computer Ethics and Digital Skills

This research-to-practice full paper proposes a structured approach to cooperatively develop, review, and employ open educational resources (OER) for pre-service teachers focusing on computer ethics and digital competences. The rapidly progressing digital and social transformation requires students as well as teachers and staff to adapt their teaching and learning. While this holds true for the vast majority of educational contexts, (pre-service) teachers are particularly challenged into acquiring digital skills and almost at the same time passing on the respective knowledge and digital skills to their students. Understandably, pre-service teachers long for reliable, easily accessible resources that they could use in class to effectively support them in preparing their students for their future jobs and lives. The current paper presents the authors' student-centered approach to developing OER on computer ethics with emphasis on including students in all phases of the development and testing of the OER, sparking students to measurably advance their digital competences. To provide accessible, high-quality resources, the focus will be on presenting the student-centered quality assurance approach we introduced while testing the OER in class and improving them based on secondary-level students' feedback. Methodologically, this paper employs the cyclic participatory research approach, which involves analyzing students' reflections and feedback, the researcher's personal observations throughout the process, the feedback of secondarylevel students during the pilot testing in the classroom, as well as the perceptions of the master students implementing the OER in a lesson in class. As a result, this study presents a set of OER developed in a student-centered manner, specifically designed to meet the needs of pre-service and early career teachers. Furthermore, the paper suggests and reflects a genuinely student-centered process of developing, evaluating, and improving OER. It aims to inspire educators, staff, educational researchers, course designers, administrators, (pre-service) teachers and interested tertiary-level students to constructively and collaboratively engage in a learner-centered development of OER and thereby support our society's learning and democratic living with the digital transformation.