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Policy component for Open access to educational resources

Definition

When the actions refer to organisations, they primarily mean higher education institutions, but they can also be applied to other organisations that develop open education.

By 2030:

Objective 1: Use and creation of Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources are used and created extensively in higher education.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Training. Training on open educational resources is provided.

   * Open Science and Research Coordination, in cooperation with organisations, establishes an open online course, which will give the participant the skills needed for the creation and utilisation of open educational resources.

   * Organisations include the course in their orientation material for teaching and research staff and recommend that all staff complete it.

   * Organisations offer training on open educational resources as part of staff training and ensure that working hours can be used for training.

2. Support services. Support is provided for the creation and use of open educational resources.

   * Organisations will share and collaborate to develop tools and practices to ensure the findability, interoperability, reusability and further development of open educational resources.

   * Organisations are responsible for resourcing support services for open educational resources.

   * Organisations instruct and encourage learners and teachers to use open educational resources in their learning, teaching and the creation of new educational resources.

   * Organisational draw up their own guidelines on open educational resources, which provide advice on, for example, a) contracts and licences in accordance with the national recommendation, b) finding and using open educational resources, c) tools and platforms for opening educational resources, and d) the use of artificial intelligence in the use and creation of open educational resources.

3. Findability and accessibility. The findability and accessibility of open educational resources is ensured.

   * The authors of open educational resources are recommended to provide metadata of their open educational resources to the Library of Open Educational Resources. National recommendations on the quality and accessibility of open educational resources can be used as guidelines.

   ○ Organisations create with the Library of Open Educational Resources interfaces to ensure that metadata of open educational resources stored in other repositories will also be stored in the Library of Open Educational Resources. ○ Organisations ensure that the authors of open educational resources have guidelines, tools and platforms in place to ensure findability and accessibility.

Objective 2: Quantity and quality of Open Educational Resources

There is a sufficient supply of high quality open educational resources that serve education in different disciplines at higher education.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Quality. The quality of open educational resources is improved.

   * Open Science and Research Coordination, in cooperation with organisations, develops practices for peer review of open educational resources using national quality criteria. Together with the Library of Open Educational Resource, technical solutions to enable peer review will be developed.

   * Open Science and Research Coordination Unit develops with organisations guidelines for taking into account the life cycle of open educational resources.

   * Inclusion of unique identifiers for both the educational resource and its author in the open educational resources is recommended.

   * Organisations engage in dialogue with staff and learners about the quality of open educational resources.

   * Open Science and Research Coordination operates a network for sharing good practices in producing high-quality open educational resources and for promoting high-quality open educational resources.

2. Giving merits. Opportunities for gaining merit from open educational resources are developed.

   * Research.fi -service will be developed to allow researchers' profiles to include information on open educational resources and related activities, such as peer review of open educational resources.

   * Organisations take the development of open educational resources into account in recruitment, career development, remuneration, and working time planning.

3. Incentives. The creation of open educational resources is encouraged through funding and awards.

   *Research funders will provide positive consideration to open educational resources drawn up on the basis of research results in funding decisions, as a part of societal impact.

   * High-quality open educational resources are developed in projects carried out by the organisations themselves and in collaboration with other organisations.

   * Open Science and Research Coordination continues to distribute national open education awards and raises awareness of these awards, and organisations recognise the promotion of open education.

Objective 3: Recognition

Finland is known as a pioneer and promoter of open educational resources in higher education.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Internationality. The use and appreciation of open educational resources is promoted internationally.

   * Finnish experts in open education, organisations, and Open Science and Research Coordination participate in international networks and cooperation projects aimed at promoting the development and utilisation of open educational resources.

   * Open Science and Research Coordination, in cooperation with organisations, develops guidelines for the publication of open educational resources produced through international collaborative projects.

   * The Library of Open Educational Resources develops interfaces to international portals for educational resources.

2. Communication. Open educational resources and related services and projects are communicated about.

   * Organisations and Open Science and Research Coordination organise national open education events and international open education conferences.

   * Finnish open education experts produce articles and other publications on open educational resources.

3. Research. Research on open educational resources is promoted.

   * Open Science and Research Coordination, in cooperation with organisations, creates a network of open education researchers.

   * A professorship in open education is established in Finland or open education is included as a research topic in one of the Finnish professorships in open science.

   * Finnish open education researchers develop research methods a) to fairly assess the use and appreciation of open educational resources published in different countries and languages, b) to monitor the impact of opening up educational resources on the cost of higher education, and c) to assess the relationship between the opening up of educational resources and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

   * Open Science and Research Coordination, in cooperation with organisations, draws up guidelines on the use of the results of research projects as open educational resources.

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The publication in its entirety is available on the Internet free of charge and without restrictions to read, print and copy at least for non-commercial use.

Open educational resources mean materials or information in any form and used on any medium, partly designed for teaching and learning purposes, which have been:

• released for public use (public domain) or;
• shared by an open licence that permits no-cost access, reuse, repurpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.

In addition, when calculating the amount of open educational resources, the calculations shall also take into account the educational resources prepared prior to the entry into force of the policy, which have been licensed by partially open licences prohibiting the publication of versions modified based on the resources, the commercial use of the resources, or both (for example Creative Commons licences including ND or NC conditions). Although scholarly publications can be used as educational resources, especially at higher education levels, and although openness of scholarly publications therefore makes these open as educational resources as well, this policy applies, above all, to educational resources which are not primarily scholarly publications. In addition, according to the policy, open educational resource must be a pedagogically meaningful whole that can be utilised in education.

The definition of open educational resources is in line with the definition of open educational resources given in the UNESCO Recommendation on Educational Resources 2019, except that the reference to research materials has been omitted, because these will be discussed in the Policy of open access to research materials and methods.