Open Educational Resources (OER): How to publish open educational resources

Publish your educational resources

Teachers are encouraged to publish your educational resources in the national Library of Open Educational Resources - aoe.fi. You can log in with your Haka user ID. Please click on "My open educational resources" in the top line, and then on "Upload a new resource" on the right side. Then add information about your teaching materials and select a suitable license for it. Follow the instructions there and fill in the form.

When publishing educational resources, ensure that you have the necessary rights to publish the resources (e.g., copyright). Everyone who has made a significant contribution to the educational resource, including the students, shall be properly acknowledged. You need to ask the co-authors and students for permission and consent for the use and publication of the materials they created.

It is recommended to publish educational resources using a Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0. The recommended format for a licence is: © [Author Name], Hanken School of Economics, 2021. CC BY 4.0/CC BY-SA 4.0.

Educational resources and other digital content shall comply with accessibility requirements

What to consider when publishing educational resources

When publishing open educational resources, plan in advance where, how, and under what terms of use to open the educational resources, and consider specifically the issues on open licensing, the authorship of the educational resources, and the preconditions for openness, e.g., the processing of personal data. The expert group at the Open Science Coordination has prepared a Recommendation on copyright issues to be taken into consideration in the open publication of educational resources which was published as Appendix 1 to the national policy on Open education and educational resources. National policy and executive plan by the higher education and research community for 2021-2025. Policy component 1 – Open access to educational resources (2020).

Open publication of educational resources also involves the questions on, for example, the quality, accessibility, and merits of the openness, which are also covered by the policy and recommendations written by the Open Science Coordination. See Recommendations for open education 2021 which specifies the national policy and recommendations on:

Aoe.fi Instructions for authors

Instructions on how to use the Library of Open Educational Resources:

  • Video: Instructions for the use of Library of Open Educational Resources: Instructions on how to use the aoe.fi services for storing educational materials in the service, editing information about the already saved materials, and evaluating education materials. With the help of the embed function, you can also embed instructions on the pages of your own educational institution.

Quality criteria and accessibility directives for digital educational resources

Quality criteria:

Accessibility directives:

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