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Knowledge Commons: Practicalities for open educators II

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Yesterday I listed 12 topics that could/should be covered in an open course on copyright, licences and OER’s for education. Please add the issues you’d like to see addressed by commenting on that post.

Today I am asking for comments and opinions on how long the course should be if it were to be presented as a series of on-line modules, whether self study or interactive.

Could the list of topics be pared down, alternatively could modules cover more than one of the topics which I have listed?

If I were to offer weekly interactive (if asynchronous) discussion component then how many weeks would be sustainable for teachers, lecturers and students? Four? Six? Twelve?

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Knowledge Commons: Practicalities for Open Educators

Monday, May 4th, 2009

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

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