{"id":86,"date":"2010-01-18T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/oneshare\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-01-18T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:26:43","slug":"community-workshopipr-and-copyright-when-sharing-educational-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/oneshare\/2010\/01\/18\/community-workshopipr-and-copyright-when-sharing-educational-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Community workshop:IPR and copyright when sharing educational resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Community workshop:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

IPR and copyright when sharing educational resources<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Southampton, 14 December 2009<\/p>\n

Introduction: <\/strong><\/p>\n

IPR for OER: sharing experiences and solutions <\/strong>by Alison Dickens, Director of HumBox Project<\/em><\/p>\n

Ali Dickens got us off to a prompt start, helpfully reminding us that panic and anxiety were being dealt with in a different academic gathering at the Avenue Campus in Southampton.\u00a0 This message was indubitably a helpful reassurance to the 40 or so visitors we welcomed to the University of Southampton.\u00a0 We had gathered to explore the many questions related to IPR and educational resources in open sharing and to understand ways in which we, as a community, can begin to address them.\u00a0 Ali scoped the currently existing landscape for the area in a succinct presentation. \u00a0We were at the start of a day \u2018of two halves\u2019 \u2013 in the morning we were to share experiences, current practices, attitudes and concerns and identify the real issues.\u00a0 During the afternoon, we would be addressing concerns, looking to manage the risks and to consider possible workflows to enable pracitioners across the academic community to access some real tools.\u00a0 Ali stated the core question as:\u00a0 what are the real risks associated with OERs and how can these risks be managed?<\/p>\n

The HumBox Project: practical issues in IPR for OER by \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Erika Corradini, Digital Rights Officer on the HumBox Project<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Erika provided an excellent summary of the practical issues which the HumBox Project (OER project based at the HE Academy Subject Centre for LLAS, Southampton) has already faced.\u00a0 Erika offered a useful, compact workflow diagram to be used for guidance by creators of educational content.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0IPR for OER by <\/strong>Hugh Davis, Director of Education (with responsibility for elearning), University of Southampton and director of EdShare<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hugh provided us with an entertaining, and stimulating.\u00a0 He described the current position of the VLE in UK HE institutions \u2013 a good, safe place in which academics can lodge their teaching resources, neither visible nor accessible for collaborative development.\u00a0 In EdShare, Southampton has developed an educational share which provides a low-threshold simple deposit location for teaching resources with no copyright checks, no quality control and a specific take-down policy.\u00a0 Hugh identified specific issues of concern to three particular stakeholders in the educational resources space:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Academics<\/strong>:\u00a0 to publish resources to students, share resources across teaching teams, share resources with the rest of the world, gain publicity, attract approbation, find other resources which can be re-used, be able to share resources easily, express their academic freedom and exercise their right to generate money from the resources;<\/p>\n

Institutions<\/strong>: showcase educational resources \u2013 for reputational as well as recruitment reasons; to make money; to improve collaboration and reduce redundancy across resources; to exercise Quality Assurance on teaching resources; access metrics based on activity around resources; remove the risk of losing access to resources when an academic leaves; store \u2018crown jewels\u2019; be confident that the university will not be sued; ensure that what is seen publically does not undermine the university\u2019s reputation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>UK PLC<\/strong>: the creation of these resources has been publically funded and should be in the public domain, the resources can facilitate \u2018learning for life\u2019; the world class quality of UK HE can be demonstrated to the international student market.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hugh, from his perspective as director of education with responsibility for elearning challenged the University of Southampton to develop its own clear, educational resource policy to facilitate the continued, responsible and effective development of learning resources.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Workshop discussion<\/strong>: Issues and experiences \u2013 what are the risks involved in publishing in open content? How likely are they to become real?<\/em><\/p>\n

We divided into four, facilitated groups (identified prior to the event on the basis of mixing academics, IPR specialists, librarians etc.).\u00a0 The task was to identify specific risk issues for IPR in educational resources and then to assign a likelihood that the risk might arise.\u00a0 Finally, if time allowed, we were to identify ways in which the risk might be managed.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0We broke for a short but enjoyable and satisfying lunch.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

IPR in OER: managing risk <\/strong>by Diana Galpin, Heaad of LASS Team and Senior Legal Adviser, Research and Innovation Services, University of Southampton <\/em><\/p>\n

She provided us with an excellent overview of IPR with respect to education resources prefacing her talk with a statement that what she supports personally is a fundamental commitment to OER tempered by the imperative of acting responsibly. Diana declared her interest in working with Hugh Davis in the University of Southampton to develop a new, workable policy towards IPR in educational resources.<\/p>\n

\u00a0An innovative IPR checking tool <\/strong>by<\/em> <\/strong>Will Fyson and Les Carr, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton<\/em><\/p>\n

Les Carr has a 3rd<\/sup> year undergraduate students, Will Fyson, who has very recently begun work on developing a practical tool designed to highlight all of the images in a .pttx file, the image identified then links to a search tool \u2013 currently primed to search automatically Flickr.\u00a0 By deploying this resource, content creators can search Creative Commons licensed, or copyright-free images available on the web in order to ensure that they reduce to the very minimum any likelihood of their resources infringing current copyright rules and regulations.<\/p>\n

The final session of our day long event was devoted to a panel discussion. The members of the panel being:\u00a0 Diana Galpin, Les Carr, Chara Balasubramaniam (St George\u2019s Medical School, London), Jason Miles-Campbell (JISC legal, University of Strathclyde), Anna Comas-Quinn (The Open University) and chaired by Hugh Davis. The introduction to the session: Who should engage with copyright within institutions? was provided by Oren Stone, Digital Rights Officer on the HumBox Project<\/em>.\u00a0 There was a lively exchange during this session and this brought the whole day to an excellent end. Ali Dickens committed us to communicating further with the community and to implementing some of the suggestions provided for us on the suggestions forms included within the Workshop packs. This work is now beginning to emerge and we will be publicising more actions in the near future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Debra Morris<\/p>\n

Erika Corradini<\/p>\n

December 2009<\/p>\n

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