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Course Creators Guide to Copyright and Intellectual Property

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Intellectual Property (IP) includes intangible creations such as inventions or ideas that may be eligible for certain legal protections depending on local laws or international treaties. It is crucial to understand the basic principles of copyright and intellectual property law.

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Be open

Learning with e's

In the speech below, which I gave at the Solstice Conference in June 2012 at Edge Hill University, I argue that we need to be more open about our content and tools, ownership of learning, intellectual property and even the very practices we participate in on a daily basis - open scholarship if you will. So be open.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with e's

Many teachers welcome the idea of bringing new technology into the classroom. Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Are your staff on board with this idea? Let me elaborate. Unported License.

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The road is open

Learning with e's

My opening keynote focused on openness in education, and I made a call for more open scholarship and open educational practices. Image source by Stephan Rinke The road is open by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 My slides are here.

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Opening up #learning: Access to knowledge

Learning with e's

The benefits are that we can all learn from each other, and can freely share our ideas, developing worldwide communities of practice that thrive on this access to knowledge. The ethos of sharing extends across open content, open source software, open courses and open scholarship. Reference Putnam, R.

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2020 Classrooms

Learning with e's

He suggests that 'online, open channels' will be the building blocks of future education. By this, I assume he means that open content, open source and open learning will come to the fore, and schools will be less protective over their content and classroom methods. He's right of course. Unported License.

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Open all hours #EDEN15

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Exploring the tensions within these key arenas, he argues that ownership over the future direction of openness is significant to all those with an interest in education. In a previous interview I conducted with him, Weller emphasised the idea that openness is a philosophy that can pervade all educational practice.

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