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Information technology policy is impacted by a wide range of perspectives from international, national, state, and campus levels. This resource page underscores the connections among these different levels and how international organizations, Congress, federal agencies, state governments, and the courts all play a role in shaping IT policy and law, as well as why this matters to higher education. Campus policies, whether developed to comply with legal mandates or to formalize institutional norms and processes, are under constant development and review as a result of changes precipitated by the introduction of new information technologies.

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How to Fix Copyright: February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
Due to the changes wrought by digital technology and the Internet, ordinary people are becoming authors, publishers, and, less appealingly, potential infringers on a massive scale. The confluence o…
Openness, Learning Analytics, and Continuous Quality Improvement: February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
The primary purpose of educators is to help people improve in some way. In a deep and overarching way, the second purpose of educators should be to improve our ability to educate. "Openness&qu…
Media Literacy 2.x: Employing Fair Use Educationally in a Remix Era: January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
Digital practices in education—everything from remix assignments to posting of material on Blackboard—provide new challenges to educational copyright policies and stretch far past existing educ…
Workshop 04A - Shades of Gray: How FERPA, Copyright, and Other Legal Issues Impact Technology Use in the Classroom: January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
When working with technology in a classroom-from assigned readings to student submissions-there are important legal issues many people have never considered. How does FERPA impact technology in the…
Digital Rights Management: Whose Rights Are We Protecting?: January 1, 2003

The higher education community is under increased pressure to control illegal file sharing of copyrighted works over their networks. How do we balance the need to encourage good cyber-citizenship w…

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