Interdisciplinary collaborative approaches in Higher Education: Open Educational Resources for Subject and Language Lecturers

The so-called ‘internationalisation at home’ (Beelen and Jones 64) of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and the need to prepare students for globalised working environments, among other factors, are powerful drivers for change in how we teach at the tertiary level. In the framework of an EU-funded innovation project being developed internationally, called Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approaches to Learning and Teaching (INCOLLAB), this article proposes to look at two aspects, namely interdisciplinary approaches through CLIL, the integrated learning of content and language, and the concomitant collaboration among content and language lecturers to plan and design innovative customisable teaching materials as Open Educational Resources (OERs) that can be adapted and used in similar educational contexts. We describe two specific proposals of OERs on the topic of ‘Autonomy Support’ both as part of the subject of ‘Developmental Psychology’ as well as a transversal skill and analyse the results of their implementation in three real contexts.