MICHIGANOPENCOURSEWARE
Faculty Primer
dScribe Model
Copyright and Intellectual Property

Why OCW?
How is OCW environment different from Ctools?
What is the role of dScribes?
Rights, uses, future of open education

Why OCW?

Open CourseWare sites
are growing both
domestically and
internationally

OCW sites add value for teaching
and learning in many areas:
Faculty
Students
Institutions
The World

Faculty
prepare materials for an upcoming class
increase visibility of course materials
Connect with faculty at UM and other schools
guide future curriculum planning
OCW site as “authoritative source”
enhance personal knowledge

Students
preview courses before registering
complement current course content with
materials from another course
help plan long term course track
connect with faculty and contribute with
student-generated content
enhance personal knowledge

Institutions
support University of Michigan mission
recruitment tool for prospective students
connect with university alumni

The World
share diverse course content with the world
support open access education
demonstrate framework for future development of
OCW sites

How is OCW environment different from Ctools?

At The University of Michigan, faculty use
Ctools to manage course materials
Students in the class
Within this content management
can download these
framework, faculty can post
materials
articles, lecture slides,
photography, audio, video, etc.

The Educational Fair Use
guidelines allow faculty to use
copyrighted materials for...
http://flickr.com/photos/yaffamedia/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en-us
...non-commercial instruction or curriculum-
based teaching by educators to students at
nonprofit educational institutions

Ctools enables
this provision
because access
is restricted by
authentication

The Fair Use allows Open CourseWare is not
educators to use granted the Fair Use
some copyrighted exemption because items
materials in class will be available to all on
settings the web
fair use
fair use
OCW sites
classroom

3 OCW Intellectual Property (IP) Considerations
Getting permission from faculty or other
contributors of course materials to publish them on
OCW
Clearing, replacing,
removing embedded
third-party elements from
materials to be published
Granting a license to OCW end-users to use, reuse,
adapt, and redistribute materials for non-commercial
educational purposes, in accord with the OCW concept

Before course material can be uploaded to the OCW site,
we need to address intellectual property considerations
These might include:
linking to books or articles instead of providing file download
seeking permission to publish materials from secondary-
source educators
providing citations of or removing protected product logos,
audio and video content

...we have a
Sounds like a
process set
lot to do...
in place
http://flickr.com/photos/gadl/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en-us
The transformation of materials will
involve faculty and dScribes

How will dScribes help?

dScribes are “Digital Scribes”
dScribes are motivated students currently in the
course
dScribes
organize, clear, and
tag course materials
dScribes are
familiar with
technology
http://flickr.com/photos/tillwe/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en-us
dScribes know about intellectual property and
copyright

dScribes prepare materials for a new life on the web

Process

Easy Steps for Faculty
Set up Ctools course site
Choose and tag materials for OCW export
Give dScribe access to Ctools course site

Set up Ctools course site

Choose and tag materials for OCW export
Home | Manage DScribes | Manage Course Materials | Review & Export
Manage Course Materials
Tags
Manage: dScribe Review (3)
Course Materials
Selected for OCW
Select: All, None Tag as: Lecture notes Remove
Drupal CMS
Week 1
Screencast: First steps Video
-- Tag As: --
Sample text
Faculty retain full control of which
items they want on OCW site

Give dScribe access to Ctools course site
INSTRUCTOR: Add DScribe
Home | Manage DScribes | Manage Course Materials | Review & Export
Add DScribe
Current DScribes
Fabio McKluskey (fmkey@umich.edu) remove
Add DScribe
userid@umich.edu
Add a student's
email address
and the system
adds the
student as a
DScribe

dScribes will work throughout the semester to prepare
Ctools materials for OCW site
begin
mid-semester
check IP questions
final check
IP, Visual layout
OCW site export

Copyright and Intellectual Property
Rights and Uses

What’s the difference between copyright and licensing?
copyright = right to copy
license = right to distribute

Michigan Open CourseWare Legal Principles
faculty retain
the intellectual
property rights to
their work
faculty grant a
non-exclusive
license to share
their work

Michigan OCW materials will be distributed
with a Creative Commons license
“Creative Commons provides free
tools that let authors, scientists,
artists, and educators easily mark
their creative work with the freedoms
they want it to carry.”

“Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike”

Which means:
Users are free to:
copy, distribute, transmit the work
adapt the work
Under the conditions:
attribution to the creator
non-commercial uses only
share alike with the same license

OCW aims to maintain quality and integrity of course
and assures faculty teaching autonomy
while promoting new ideas and tools for building
openly accessible course materials

OCW aims to work closely with other university
outreach initiatives
Deep Blue, University of Michigan
archiving repository
UM Library Intellectual Property Office, which helps
educate university faculty and students on IP issues

OCW can support
an open educational resource (OER) movement
By incorporating
diverse faculty course materials
With the help of
knowledgeable and motivated dScribes

Resources
Michigan Open Courseware - http://pilot.educommons.usu.edu/michigan
MIT Open CourseWare - http://ocw.mit.edu/
Open CourseWare Consortium - http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
Creative Commons - http://www.creativecommons.org
Creative Commons Search Engine - http://search.creativecommons.org/
Michigan Copyright website - http://copyright.umich.edu/
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center - http://fairuse.stanford.edu/