MICHIGANOPENCOURSEWAREFaculty Primer
dScribe ModelCopyright and Intellectual Property
Rights, uses, future of open education
Why OCW?
How is OCW environment different from Ctools?
What is the role of dScribes?
Why OCW?
Open CourseWare sites are growing both domestically and internationally
OCW sites add value for teaching and learning in many areas:
Faculty
Students
The World
Institutions
Faculty
Connect with faculty at UM and other schools
increase visibility of course materials
OCW site as “authoritative source”
guide future curriculum planning
enhance personal knowledge
prepare materials for an upcoming class
Students
preview courses before registering
help plan long term course track
complement current course content with materials from another course
enhance personal knowledge
connect with faculty and contribute with student-generated content
Institutions
recruitment tool for prospective students
support University of Michigan mission
connect with university alumni
The World
share diverse course content with the world
support open access education
demonstrate framework for future development of OCW sites
How is OCW environment different from Ctools?
Within this content management framework, faculty can post articles, lecture slides, photography, audio, video, etc.
Students in the class can download these materials
At The University of Michigan, faculty use Ctools to manage course materials
...non-commercial instruction or curriculum-based teaching by educators to students at nonprofit educational institutions
The Educational Fair Use guidelines allow faculty to use copyrighted materials for...
http://flickr.com/photos/yaffamedia/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en-us
Ctools enables this provision
because access is restricted by authentication
The Fair Use allows educators to use some copyrighted materials in class settings
classroom
fair usefair use
OCW sites
Open CourseWare is not granted the Fair Use exemption because items will be available to all on the web
3 OCW Intellectual Property (IP) Considerations
Getting permission from faculty or other contributors of course materials to publish them on OCW
Clearing, replacing, removing embedded third-party elements from materials to be published
Granting a license to OCW end-users to use, reuse, adapt, and redistribute materials for non-commercial educational purposes, in accord with the OCW concept
Before course material can be uploaded to the OCW site, we need to address intellectual property considerations
linking to books or articles instead of providing file download
seeking permission to publish materials from secondary-source educators
providing citations of or removing protected product logos, audio and video content
These might include:
The transformation of materials will involve faculty and dScribes
Sounds like a lot to do...
...we have a process set
in place
http://flickr.com/photos/gadl/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en-us
How will dScribes help?
dScribes are “Digital Scribes”
dScribes are motivated students currently in the course
dScribes organize, clear, and tag course materials
dScribes are familiar with technology
dScribes know about intellectual property and copyright
http://flickr.com/photos/tillwe/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en-us
dScribes prepare materials for a new life on the web
Process
Easy Steps for Faculty
Set up Ctools course site
Choose and tag materials for OCW export
Give dScribe access to Ctools course site
Set up Ctools course site
Choose and tag materials for OCW export
Faculty retain full control of which items they want on OCW site
Home | Manage DScribes | Manage Course Materials | Review & Export
Manage Course Materials
Manage: TagsCourse Materials
Selected for OCW
Select: All, None Tag as: Lecture notes Remove
Drupal CMS
Week 1
Screencast: First steps Video
Sample text -- Tag As: --
dScribe Review (3)
INSTRUCTOR: Add DScribe
Home | Manage DScribes | Manage Course Materials | Review & Export
Add DScribe
Current DScribes
Fabio McKluskey ([email protected]) remove
[email protected] Add DScribe
Add a student's
email address
and the system
adds the
student as a
DScribe
Give dScribe access to Ctools course site
dScribes will work throughout the semester to prepare Ctools materials for OCW site
begin
mid-semester check
final check
OCW site export
IP questions
IP, Visual layout
Copyright and Intellectual PropertyRights and Uses
What’s the difference between copyright and licensing?
copyright = right to copy
license = right to distribute
Michigan Open CourseWare Legal Principles
faculty grant a non-exclusive license to share their work
faculty retain the intellectual property rights to their work
Michigan OCW materials will be distributed with a Creative Commons license
“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.”
“Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike”
Users are free to:
Under the conditions:
copy, distribute, transmit the work
adapt the work
attribution to the creator
non-commercial uses only
share alike with the same license
Which means:
while promoting new ideas and tools for building openly accessible course materials
OCW aims to maintain quality and integrity of course and assures faculty teaching autonomy
OCW aims to work closely with other university outreach initiatives
Deep Blue, University of Michigan archiving repository
UM Library Intellectual Property Office, which helps educate university faculty and students on IP issues
an open educational resource (OER) movement
OCW can support
By incorporating
diverse faculty course materials
With the help of
knowledgeable and motivated dScribes
Resources
Michigan Open Courseware - http://pilot.educommons.usu.edu/michigan
MIT Open CourseWare - http://ocw.mit.edu/
Creative Commons - http://www.creativecommons.org
Open CourseWare Consortium - http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
Creative Commons Search Engine - http://search.creativecommons.org/
Michigan Copyright website - http://copyright.umich.edu/
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center - http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
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