Opin.fi

Opin.fi avoids the need for teaching staff to learn a new system, as information from Sisu and course pages is transferred automatically. The service brings open university studies to a broader audience, allowing learners to more easily compare offerings across various higher education institutions.

Consider course titles and content descriptions carefully when designing the curriculum. Think about what the course title conveys to learners and the expectations it sets for course content, even when learners do not know which degree programme offers the course. Informative course titles and content descriptions support degree students and continuous learners alike and may encourage the latter choose the University of Helsinki’s open university studies. For further information on the topic, visit the curriculum guideline section.

Ensure that your course pages are accurate and current, as they provide an essential preview of upcoming teaching. Posting all relevant information on these pages in advance supports course completion for both degree students and continuous learners. Further information on using course pages is available on the Instructions for Teaching website.

In addition to its search features, opin.fi enables browsing educational offerings by theme. The themes have been defined in collaboration with the Digivisio project, which is developing the service, and higher education institutions. Changes to theme titles, descriptions and use of themes are highly likely in the near future once we have received feedback and development requests on the theme functionalities from users. 

Opin.fi themes are:

New technologies

Sustainable development and growth

Health and wellbeing[LV1] 

Safety, security and risk management

Global diversity and equality

Renewal of working life and competence

Change management and analytics

Culture and creativity

Society and interaction

Education and learning

The admin users of opin.fi at the University of Helsinki assign themes for open university education using AI (Microsoft Copilot). In Sisu, theme classification is indicated at course and study module levels. Individual course implementations are assigned a theme automatically on the basis of the relevant course. Only modules and courses for which a suitable theme can be found in the predetermined classification are assigned a theme. In other words, not all study modules or courses offered as open university education are necessarily classified under a theme. 

You can check the theme of your teaching by writing the name of your course in the search field at opin.fi and selecting the course from the results. The theme is indicated at the bottom of the page. Please note that the results primarily show teaching for which registration is upcoming or currently under way. Offerings by partner educational institutions cannot yet be displayed due to technical limitations.

By using opin.fi, you can increase the visibility of additional material supporting your teaching, such as videos and podcasts. You can moreover provide an overview of your open university courses and associated content to attract a growing number of motivated students.

You can find a detailed description on Flamma of the University of Helsinki content sought for opin.fi, along with details on how content is selected and published. At present, the admin users manually input information into opin.fi. If you are interested in producing and publishing additional content of the kind outlined here, please explore the above Flamma page.

The University of Helsinki’s opin.fi specialists can be contacted by writing to uni-help@helsinki.fi.