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Impacts Of Moocs On Intellectual Property Rights And Collective Bargaining, Nicholas Anastasopoulos
Impacts Of Moocs On Intellectual Property Rights And Collective Bargaining, Nicholas Anastasopoulos
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
Massive Open Online Courses (“MOOCs”) are free, online courses offered by institutions of higher education to individual users across the world, and in the vast majority of cases, without any admissions criteria. MOOCs are popular with individuals because they offer unprecedented, free access to the best institutions in the world that were previously inaccessible to the vast majority of the population–all a user needs is a computer and Internet access. College and university administrators are excited about MOOCs because of the marketing reach and additional revenues available through this medium. Professors are excited to have their lectures seen by as …
Who Owns Online Curriculum And Content? A Primer On Intellectual Property, Jon Garon
Who Owns Online Curriculum And Content? A Primer On Intellectual Property, Jon Garon
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
The ownership of copyrights in a faculty member’s copyrighted works has been a source of tension between labor and management for many years, affecting content created for the classroom, for scholarship, and for creative endeavors. Ownership of on-line learning content adds to these tensions and presents a number of important labor-management and pedagogical issues. The legal default rules of copyright provide the starting point for negotiations between labor and management. This panel will explore whether the institution or the faculty member owns the intellectual property associated with on-line learning, course content, and other works. In addition, it will present practical …