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Open educational resources: JYU policy

Introduction

Open Education supports the multimodality and accessibility of learning and teaching. This involves both Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices. The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ has signed the national Declaration for as well as the related . The national policy complies with the .

Open Educational Resources support the development of learners’ expertise and continuous learning. With the help of such resources, it is easy not only to stay up to date in one’s field but also to get familiar with other disciplines. Open Educational Resources are versatile, accessible and often easy to modify, which supports learning in various ways. Learners can themselves produce educational resources and demonstrate their expertise by networking already during their studies.

When they so wish, authors can make their educational resources open and demonstrate their skills in this domain as both producers and as peer reviewers. This enhances networking and cooperation possibilities. Open Educational Resources are also often applicable to societal interaction. The Open Educational Resources by others help us enhance our own teaching work and get new perspectives on the learning themes and pedagogical practices.

Open Educational Resources support the University’s strategic goals for education and research, such as continuous learning, high-quality teaching as well as our characteristic working culture. By opening the educational resources, we support our students’ equal and equitable opportunities for learning and developing their own competences, enhance the appeal of the University’s educational provision, and strengthen appreciation for teaching as well as the continuous development of its quality.

The JYULearn concept also supports the opening of educational resources. The idea in JYULearn is to promote multilocal learning as well as to involve the university community in the development of appropriate both digitally and pedagogically relevant educational practices.

In the same vein, the principle of Open Educational Resources is in line with the goals of the ongoing . In the future educational ecosystem, central roles are reserved for well-functioning digital services, lifelong and flexible learning across institutional borders, and open course provision.

The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥

  1. Recommends for the JYU researchers, teachers, other staff, and students to open educational resources and also supports by its strategic measures teaching and learning practices that aim at open access.
  2. Requires compliance with requirements for Open Educational Resources and various open digital contents.
  3. Creates conditions so that the author of teaching content and educational resources (a person producing the materials) has sufficient knowledge of, for example, copyrights and data protection. The author is responsible for ensuring that they follow the University’s instructions for and data protection issues (instructions available in the University’s intranet), and that they have the necessary rights to open the material.
  4. Requires the acknowledgement of everybody who, in terms of copyright, has significantly contributed to the production of educational resources; this includes students as well. Copyrights belong to the authors, unless otherwise agreed. As regards co-authoring, it is recommendable to agree on it beforehand. The University provides for these purposes.
  5. Recommends that Open Educational Resources be licensed with licences.
  6. Recommends an identification for the author for Open Educational Resources.
  7. Recommends that the metadata of Open Educational Resources be saved either in the national or the JYU publication archive JYX, regardless of where the actual material is saved. If the entire educational resources cannot be saved in aoe or JYX, the metadata is added with a link to the material.
  8. Recommends the use of the best applicable platforms for different forms of Open Educational Resources in terms of visibility, findability, and usability. A recommended option is the national aoe.
  9. Encourages the use of the existing high-quality Open Educational Resources in teaching and as course material.
  10. Promotes the acknowledgement of the production and opening of high-quality educational resources as part of meriting.
  11. Encourages the producers of educational resources to act as mentors and peer reviewers to each other.
  12. Supports the use of open learning environments and the production and use of accessible, high-quality Open Educational Resources on the platforms available at JYU.

The policy for Open Educational Resources also has related , including instructions on applying the resources for the producers of educational resources.

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