• Open Education is an umbrella term under which different understandings of Open Education can be accommodated. It goes beyond Open Educational Resources and other open research outputs to embrace strategic decisions, teaching methods, collaboration between individuals and institutions, recognition of non-formal learning and different ways of delivering content.

      • After completing this Open Education lesson, you will
        • recognise the benefits of Open Education
        • be able to find, evaluate and utilise Open Educational Resources
        • be able to define and describe how pedagogical solutions can be used to open your education.

    • One Open Educational Practice is to recognise researchers', teachers' or other personnel members' competence and make it visible. You can get a national Open Badge by studying this Open Education MOOC and compliting the Open Education Badge Test successfully. The Test is organiseg and Badge granted by the national Coordination of Open Science; Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.

      It is recommended that organisations recognise participants' competence if the Open Education MOOC is used, for example, as personnel training.

      This section of the Educational Resource has been created with Open Educational Practices: Co-operation, using Open Educational Resources and Peer Learning. The Resource is developed in 2025 by a Panel of Experts:

      • Kaisa Hartikainen (University of Eastern Finland)
      • Aino Helariutta (Laurea University of Applied Sciences)
      • Terhi Kaipainen (South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences)
      • Ilmari Jauhiainen (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)
      • Hanna Kemppi (University of Turku)
      • Riikka Sinisalo (LUT University)
      • Kati Syvälahti (Tampere University Library)
      • Marjo Vallittu (University of Jyväskylä, Chair of the Expert Panel)
      • Tiina Vertanen (University of Oulu)


      Citation:
      Hartikainen, Kaisa; Helariutta, Aino; Kaipainen, Terhi; Jauhiainen, Ilmari; Kemppi, Hanna; Sinisalo, Riikka; Syvälahti, Kati; Vallittu, Marjo & Vertanen, Tiina. Open Education. 2025. Published in the MOOC "Finnish Open Science Online Resource". Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland [producer]. <http://www.findocnet.fi>. Latest update: 2026. (cited dd.mm.yyyy.) CC BY-SA 4.0

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