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In an age of connected learning, navigating the copyright landscape can be challenging. The following resources may help you as you attempt to answer key copyright questions about content use, re-use, distribution, creation, and more.
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Looking to find out more about copyright, Fair Use, DMCA, and other legislation in this area? This page from the EDUCAUSE Policy office provides a useful overview of IP issues facing higher education. - EDUCAUSE Library: Copyright and IP Policies
Find model campus policies in the EDUCAUSE Library. - Copyright Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States
This timeline from the Association of Research Libraries is a comprehensive look at the legal evolution of copyright law in the United States. - Copyright Crash Course
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An online guide from ARL that “looks at copyright from the perspectives of all key academic stakeholders and suggests what each group can do to enhance their copyright practices and advance academic interests. - American University Center for Social Media: Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Copyright
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Open Educational Resources (OER) True Articles, Books, Pr…
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Openness
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Openness True EDUCAUSE values sharing, collaboration, an…
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7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs II
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June 11, 2013
A MOOC is a model of educational delivery that is, to varying degrees, massive, open, online, and a course. Most MOOCs are structured similar to traditional online higher education course…
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OERs Increase Access, Drop Book Expenses
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May 7, 2013
Tacoma Community College and other schools are finding that use of open educational resources (OER) in couses is saving students financially. Tac…
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Higher Education in the Ultra-Connected Age
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April 25, 2013
New forms of scholarship, new educational pathways , and new interconnections and dependencies characterize the digitally rich landscape of higher education today. We are living and workin…
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Up and Away: Open Access in Portugal
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May 6, 2013
Portugal stands out among nations that have embraced open access to scholarly communication because of its early adoption of institutional policies , creation of a network of reposito…
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Sierra Vista High School and the National Repository of Online Courses
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March 19, 2013
"Profiles of Next Generation Learning" is a video series produced by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . Each video explores the …
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Next-Generation MOOCs with Open-Source PaaS
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April 3, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
MOOCs are popular, plentiful, and low cost, thanks to cloud computing. A current challenge with computer science –based MOOCs, however, is that computer science students need increased capabili…
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Assessing the Efficacy of Third-Party MOOCs in Hybrid Instruction
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
The California state legislation's recent move to mandate that public universities award credit for new forms of online instruction such as MOOCs raises questions about how to measure what stu…
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Using an Open-Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals: An Introduction to Class2Go
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April 3, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
As universities dive deeper into online learning and MOOCs, what role can a platform play in meeting online learning goals? At Stanford, we discovered that developing and using the Class2Go open-…
