Pretty good article from Syllabus Magazine on the state of online course content and digital rights. The author correctly outlines the early arrivals of greed and paranoia onto the scene, describing some of the more spectacular failures produced by misplaced apprehensions. But even more useful is the list of four points all authors and universities should keep in mind about content:CRLF
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- The value of a university learning experience, online or traditional, is far more than the value of the content.CRLF
- Content-based intellectual property is more valuable to the faculty than it is to the university.CRLF
- Development of digital materials will require some sharing of ownership between faculty and the university with minimal restrictions on reuse by either and proportional compensation to each for their contributions.CRLF
- No one can or should own courses, syllabi, pedagogies, or ideas.CRLF
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