IPR Assembly Presentation Hugh Davis Learning Societies Lab, ECS edshare.soton.ac.uk These Slides

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A little diversion in Educational Resources – The EdShare experience 3

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Do you know what you’ve got? 1000s of teachers spend 100s of hours a year preparing teaching resources Then they put them in the VLE Where (often) no-one except current class can see them – No sharing or re-use – No collaboration – No QA 5

Objectives Bootstrap culture of sharing of everyday resources Showcase our best resources Get our stuff found by the search engines Simple and speedy deposit process – Minimal manual meta- data, – Maximum automatic meta- data – No content packaging Web 2.0 at the core (not garnish) – Pages are about content not metadata – Forefront user identity – Contextual metadata is best – Aggregation and reuse support 6

EdShare Implementation Anyone in Uni is automatically a registered EdShare user. Anyone worldwide may browse/search the EdShare indexes Registered users can upload any kind of file or URL into EdShare and describe it using metadata and/or free-form text. Users control the access levels of their files (typically open access or institution- only). Users select an appropriate licence for their resource (CC?). Items in EdShare are allocated a unique and permanent URL that may be referenced by other systems (e.g. Blackboard). The descriptions of all files lodged in EdShare can be found and indexed by search engines. A user can only retrieve content if it has been lodged for open access. 7

EdShare is a Trojan Horse Levering our resources out of Blackboard Exposing our content to the world An opportunity for developmental interventions A focus for institutional change 8

The Business Case Time saving Improved collaboration between departments – emerging, interdisciplinary and fast changing subjects A focus for innovation A showcase for excellence A tool for interacting and collaborating externally The software is Open Source. 9

Compared to JORUM (The EdShare stats refer to downloads of actual resources. The downloads of descriptions are an order of magnitude higher) 10 NOTE: This is not a comparison of like with like That’s the whole point

Access Metrics 11

The Files in EdShare 12

Permissions in EdShare 13

The risk we are taking We are encouraging people to put make their everyday teaching materials globally visible – Without checking copyright – Without quality control We have a clear take down policy We ask academics to be responsible 14

How would we like things to be? 15

What do academics want? 16 Place to publish their resources to studentsPlace to share their resources with teaching teamPlace to share their resources with the rest of the worldPublicityApprobation A place to find other materials that they can remix and reuse (possibly - not yet proven – must find it via Google) Want sharing to be really easy/fast – no “legal contacts” in the wayAcademic freedom – in education as in researchThe right to make money out of their resources

What does the University want? To showcase their wonderful teaching So that they increase their reputation So that they recruit students To make money out of resources (rarely)To improve collaboration and reduce redundancyTo be able to QA their teaching resources (and the student experience)To be able to use activity around resources as metricNot to lose good resources when a teacher leavesMay regard resources as their “crown jewels”To rest assured that they are not going to be suedTo be assured that what is seen in public does not undermine their reputation 17

What does UK PLC want? 18 Resources that the country has paid for to be in the public domain To facilitate learning for life To demonstrate world class education on the international student market

So What is getting in the way? 19

Ownership Issues Who owns the resources? Academics worried that university is trying to steal their IPR University worried about developing resources that migrate with academics Academics worried that if they share resources people will – misuse them – and even worse attribute the owner for the misuse! – use them for QA – not value them 20

Copyright issues Fear of Litigation We *know* that a large amount of the every day teaching resource contains third party materials that are not copyright cleared Academics feel that this is “fair use” – but are worried about exposing such materials beyond their class Academics want positive and proactive help with copyright clearance – but the landscape is enormously confused 21

Reasonable Risk? What is the real risk of litigation? If a teacher includes a Disney clip? If a teachers downloads a “homemade” YouTube video? If the a teacher includes a picture taken from a random website? If a teacher includes a couple of PowerPoint slides and acknowledges the source? 22

Conclusions What we need is for institutions to have clear ER policies which state Who owns resources - but also makes clear – how they intend to exercise that ownership – what people are to be allowed to do with the(ir) resources It may also look at How copyright should be cleared? (guidance, support, tools) How should that be evidenced Reasonable risk? 23

A Naïve ER Policy The University of Poppleton owns the copyright on all educational resources developed in support of the University’s educational programmes. The University therefore has the right to maintain a copy of such resources for use in perpetuity. Academics and teams of academics who have developed educational resources own their intellectual property and are encouraged to re-use and develop the resource further to their benefit and the benefit of the university. In some cases this might mean commercialising the resources jointly with the University. Academics are permitted to share the University’s copyright with others e.g. through Creative Commons. Academics are required to ensure they have the rights to use, and re-assign copyright where appropriate, of any third party materials included in their resources. Please see document x which – Explains how to carry out a risk assessment on the inclusion of third party materials, distinguishing between materials that will require explicit permissions from owners, and materials and circumstances (such as Creative Commons) that do not. – Explains the Library support for managing copyright clearance on third party materials – Explains the QA processes that the University requires when a resource will be published as an exemplar/ showcase item representing the University – e.g. in third party repositories. 24