Copyright and E-learning

Jane Secker (B.A., Ph.D., PGCertHE, FHEA) is Copyright and Digital and Literacy Advisor at LSE, where she has responsibility for the digital literacy programme for staff and PhD students. She also advises staff about copyright issues particularly related to their use of digital resources and e-learning. She has published widely and led several externally funded projects, most recently being project manager for the DELILA (Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation) funded by JISC and the Higher Education Academy to release digital and information literacy materials and open educational resources. She is the editor of Rethinking Information Literacy: A practical framework for supporting learning. Chris Morrison (B.A. Hons., MAUA, PGDip) is the Copyright and Licensing Compliance Officer at the University of Kent, responsible for copyright policy, licences, training and advice. He was previously the Copyright Assurance Manager at the British Library and before that worked for music collecting society PRS for Music. He is a member of the Universities UK / Guild HE Copyright Working Group on whose behalf he also attends the Education Licensing Working Group (ELWG). He is currently collaborating with Jane Secker on a number of copyright literacy projects and is the creator of Copyright the Card Game.

1. E-learning and copyright: background



Recognizing the copyright dilemma
The development of e-learning
A brief introduction to UK copyright law
Ireland
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
The USA
Copyright and scholarly communication
Creative Commons
The Open Movement

2. Digitizing text-based content for delivery in a VLE



Using published materials in e-learning
Scanning published content in the UK
Scanning in the UK: results of a survey
Using published content outside the UK
The USA
Using unpublished content

3. Using digital media: video, images, sound and software



Why use sound, images and video in teaching?
Copyright and non-text-based works: an introduction
Using images in education
Digital images collections
Digitization of analogue recordings
Identifying rights holders and getting permission
Copying broadcasts: the ERA Licence
Box of Broadcasts
Catch-up TV services and television on demand
BBC iPlayer
Creating audio and video content in-house: copyright issues
Sound recordings
Lecture capture and intellectual property rightsissues
Screen recording
iTunes U
Managing digital media content
Software
Finding digital media content for use in e-learning
Example sources for still images
Example sources for moving images
Example sources for audio

4. Copyright issues and born digital resources



How is born digital content different?
Digital rights management
Using content from websites
Content from publishers
E-books
Databases and other subscription resources
Lecturers’ own digital content: teaching materials
Student-created content
Conclusions and general advice

5. Copyright in the connected digital environment



What are social media and the Cloud?
New technologies for learning
Wikis
Media-sharing sites
Peer to peer file sharing
Social networking services
Social bookmarking and curation tools
Massive open online courses
Emerging trends

6. Copyright education and training



The copyright educator, trainer or teacher
Developing a copyright literacy programme
Your audience
Face-to-face training sessions
Topics to include
Practical considerations
Using the web
Booklets, guides and leaflets
Dealing with queries
Sources of further advice and support

7. Conclusion