Rather than on the website itself, it may be useful to upload the
materials on scientific repositories such as Zenodo.org, where the
material is given a DOI and made permanently available online. Students
from Giglia’s courses, workshops and seminars (as well as researchers
and students from across the world) can thus freely download
presentation slides in English or in Italian from the repository. Being
generally licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License, the educational material – which may comprise OA
textbooks, videos and interviews – can be reproduced, freely used and
distributed for any purpose, provided that appropriate credit is given.
For example, the aforementioned personal academic website of philosophy
scholar Matthew J. Brown includes in the home page (Figure 1) links to
online videos in which he discusses philosophy topics from Heidegger’s
to Dewey’s thought.
From lecture videos through exercises and questions and answers (Q&A),
sharing teaching resources on the faculty’s personal academic website
will, inter alia , aid in reducing multiple e-mails sent by
anxious students, badly affecting the work of many professors and
educators [33]. Sharing educational materials on a personal academic
website does not replace in-person teaching with its unique benefits and
advantages [34]. To the contrary, the key resource to overcome both
e-mail anxiety [33] and to promote the purposeful uptake of open
science, including scholarly communication in the digital era of open
science [35], is in-person education supported by the wise use of
digital technologies, such a personal academic website.