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Quick Guide: Tips to Get You Started

1. Secure the right to share material:
   • Ensure everything you share is your own material
     • Do not include material that is under the for example
   • If the material is created by others, such as other speakers in the video, make sure you have the rights to use it
     • Some materials might be open access, like those licensed under a Creative Commons license. If unsure, always check
     • Seek permission from other authors if needed. Legal services can provide template contracts if required
2. Ensure
   • E.g. for videos, accessibility often means providing subtitles. This can be automatically done by platforms like JYU's
3. Add Metadata to the Educational Resource:
   • Include details of the authors and publisher (e.g., JYU)
   • Provide a description of the content, and add keywords to enhance findability.
4. • By doing this, you ensure the Educational Resource is findable
   • The Library works with JYU's Haka credentials and guides users through the information input process
   • The educational resource can be added to the Library either as a link or as a file.

For more details on these topics, refer to the sections below.

• Digital Services of JYU have produced pedagogical models of the e-learning and guidelines for digital tools (not yet translated into English)
• It is possible to use open platforms for production. Just remember:
  • ensure the questions of data protection issues
  • cooperation and participation of students.

Compact check list of the authorship: 

• As a principle, the author always has the authorship, so he/she decides for opening of the education resource and the licence of it
• Agreeing of the cooperation, licences etc.in advance: ask examples from Legal Services
  • Cooperation is possible with students, too. In fact learner's participation is the central matter of open learning
  • Copyrights can be transferred by making the special contract.
    
     

Opening the education resources from different viewpoints:

• The author decides: how, where and which terms and conditions (licences) are applied
• The organization supports: cooperation and agreement
• Students can be both the authors and users of the educational resources, i.e. students have to be able to utilize for example Creative Commons licences
• If photos etc. have been used in the leaning material, please notice the permission of copyrights. Options for this:
  • Use your own material only
  • Use materials with open licencing
  • Get permission for the opening
  • can not be opened
  • (The -website offers for information about copyright in teaching, but yet in Finnish or Swedish only.)

Open educational resources can both be opened for the general use, or they can be opened with the licence which defines terms and condition for the further use. 

The Creative Commons licences are of often used for opening the educational resource. The author can decide the licence suitable for each material. The Library of Open Educational Resources recommends licences such as CC BY 4.0. and CC BY SA. Both of the licences order to cite the original author. CC BY SA means materials can be shared when the licence used on that new work is the same as the original.
 

Note that the permission of editing the material enables the updating of it and continues the life and usability of the material. It is also good to think, is it really necessary to reject the commercial use, because the the material can not be utilized courses which are subject to a charge. (Source; Library of Open Educational Resources, FAQ. URL:  The link checked 17.8.2023.)

If the educational resource has several authors, it is helpful to agree licences etc. in advance. 

For more information about the licences and rights of the educational resources:

• • The CC icon, text and the link are created by this tool, too
• (not yet translated into English)
• Open licences & open educational resources (not yet translated into English)
• • s 
• Tarmo Toikkanen (2020): . The . Open learning material, 28.1.2020.
• Please always check copyrights if you use materials included in Kopiosto's copying licence: they cannot be included automatically to open educational resources.

• Materials used in educational resources: is opening allowed?
• When collaborating, e.g. involving students in the making of educational resources, or in research projects, copyright may belong to many parties. In this case, it is worth to remember the agreement in advance, in which case copyright and used licences are decided on in good time and together.

Accessibility means that materials and teaching are suitable using as many people as possible.
When producing open educational resources the accessibility is noticed by making the material clear, understandable and easy to use, for example. Accessibility is regulated matter i.e. open educational resources must be accessible and in their background information it is good to provide additional information related to accessibility. When opening the educational resources, it is possible to bring up such background information in the

For more information

• Data privacy in JYU
• (in preparation).

The author of the educational resource should also take into account the quality aspect, e.g.

• content
• open learning and teaching methods
• usability and accessibility
• findability
  • material is described, i.e. it has the necessary metadata in the
  • .

Peer review opportunity

• colleagues as support, mentors, in the educational resource making phase
• allows you to write open comments on opened educational resources, e.g. on further development ideas.

When opening your own educational material, it is worth noting that it may also contain the personal data of others, for example when making a video recording of a teaching situation.

If open educational resources are created as part of a course, it is a good idea to inform the participants in advance of the opening of the educational material in the course description. 

If open educational resources are made, for example in an event open to the general public, it is a good idea to inform the opening in advance in the event announcement, on the spot for example at the beginning of the video recording out loud, and in the case of participants arriving late, with a notice printed on the door.

More information about teacher's data protection at JYU.

The author opens his/her teaching material with descriptive data in the national (aoe), maintained by the Centre for Science and Technology (CSC). This means that users can add metadata to their learning materials in aoe to make them as discoverable and usable as possible.

You can add to aoe

• a file or
• a link to the material you have opened elsewhere.

Publishing the material ensures the teacher's merit, so author and licensing information, including JYU affiliation, should also be added to the descriptive metadata. The aoe platform guides the filling of description information, so it is worth remembering to add these details in the descripition:

• authors
• factor affinities
• to help findability
• JYU as publisher (to make JYU materials discoverable)
• a concise description of the material as a guide for users
• the chosen licence.

Educational resources can also be opened in JYU's own environments such as Moniviestin and Moodle. For these, a linki and descriptive information will be stored in aoe.