I am currently putting together a course (all the resources will be open) intended to enable open educators, formal, informal, university and school, to navigate the complexities of copyright law and licensing on educational resources.
There is so much that one could include but I’ve pared it down to ten units that I have listed below. I am looking for comments and criticisms on the list.
If you are a non lawyer who must grapple with copyright law to make decisions about educational resources then what would you want to find out about?
The 12 topics (modules?) are:
1.what is copyright?
2.why copyright?
3.licences
4.exceptions
5.copyright and education
6.exceptions for teaching and learning
7.open licences
8.using open educational resources in education
9.choosing and using open licences for educational resources
10. using materials under exceptions in open educational resources
11. badly broken (click wrap licences, DRM’s, TPM’s, and anti-circumvention provisions)
12. the knowledge commons
This looks like an interesting course for me too actually.
Perhaps more on commercial vs non-commercial, eg resources are openly licenced but you could run paid training courses built on open resources?
Hi Andrew,
This would be really usefull.
My 2c worth.
If you focuss on practicalities – I would really look at making the course scenario driven.
ie Teacher x wants to do y in the classroom – What are the options and limitations.
My gut feel is that if you want the course to have value to real educators, you will need to pull back on the some of more theoretical issues and the background ideology.
A practical example from the PSP – we have habitually taken photocopies from newspapers and magazines and reproduced these (without permission) in our materials.
We are now interested in released these materials online under a creative commons license – what would we need to do at this point to avoid legal issues.
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All the best – I think this is a great idea (but one that needs to be relevant to a time-pressed audience).
Sam