EDUCAUSE Live! April 26, 2007 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Developing and Implementing Successful Intellectual Property Policies for Online Courses

Special Guests

Veronica Diaz
Instructional Technology Manager and Adjunct Faculty
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
Maricopa Community Colleges

Veronica Diaz is the instructional technologist for the Maricopa Community College District’s Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. She works with faculty professional development and growth and leads various programs that promote the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. At the University of Arizona she serves as adjunct professor and was responsible for the teaching and learning initiatives at the Eller College of Management. Diaz also serves on various information and learning technology advisory and steering committees at two- and four-year institutions. Her research has examined faculty and institutional participation in e-learning activities to discern characteristics that influence participation rates in distributed learning. Diaz also studies intellectual property ownership and control, intellectual property and copyright policy, distributed learning activities and digital products in higher education, and emerging technologies including digital repositories and learning objects.

Patricia McGee
Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
The University of Texas at San Antonio

Patricia McGee is associate professor of instructional technology and program coordinator for the master's program in adult and higher education at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Director of several technology for teaching grants, she has most recently worked as research faculty through the Office of Naval Research and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (formerly NLII) studying learning objects, distributed learning pedagogy and emerging technologies, and next-generation course management systems. Her role as lead editor, with Colleen Carmean and Ali Jafari, of Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy has led to continued study of systems and pedagogy that support learning. Currently she is leading an effort to establish a professional organization for instructional designers.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Veronica Diaz and Patricia McGee, and the topic will be "Developing and Implementing Successful Intellectual Property Policies for Online Courses."

The control of intellectual property, including copyright, by higher education constituents is an increasingly important focus of national and institutional policy debates. Over the past 20 years, the influx of technology and the resulting digitization of knowledge, especially in the areas of instructional technology and distance education, have brought intellectual property to the forefront of contested issues in higher education. Campuses across the country are reconsidering and revising intellectual property policies, especially in the area of copyrighted materials, including software and instructional technologies. Traditional notions of ownership, control, and use of educational materials are being challenged by the revolution in communications technology. This seminar will review various existing policies, highlight exemplary policies, and make recommendations on policy development and implementation.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Copyright or Intellectual Property Policies
• Policy Development
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars