[Opensource] fwd: New free Copyright for Educators Course

[Pia Waugh]

Hi all,

thought this might be of interest:

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:12:31 +1100
From: "Saab, Sylvie" <Sylvie.Saab at det.nsw.edu.au>
Subject: New free Copyright for Educators Course

Hi All,

I am writing to let you know about a new free online copyright course, 'Copyright For Educators', being offered by Peer to Peer University (http://p2pu.org). The site went live today and will be launched officially in a few hours.

P2PU is a volunteer open education project being incubated by the University of California (Irvine) with lots of support from Shuttleworth Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, CC Learn, Mozilla Foundation and others.

Delia Browne, National Copyright Director (National Copyright Unit) of the Copyright Advisory Groups (Schools and TAFEs), is the course organiser and one of P2PU co founders of the volunteer open education project.

The P2PU 'Copyright for Educators' course has been launched and enrolments are now open.  I encourage you to pass on this email to any Teachers, Librarians and Curriculum and E learning areas who may be interested in enrolling in the course to learn about copyright and copyright compliance strategies.


          What is 'Copyright for Educators'?
It is a six week course for educators who want to learn about copyright, open content material and licensing. It is open to all educators around the world.

The course is taught around practical case studies faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day to day teaching and educational instruction.

By answering the case scenarios and drafting and discussing the answers in groups, the participants learn:

 *   about what copyright protects
 *   whether exceptions or blanket licences apply
 *   when they need to seek permission and who from
 *   what an open education resource is
 *   what a creative common licence is
 *   how OER and CC can benefit teaching

 Participants will also get to learn about how these issues are dealt with in different countries.

 The Course leaders

  As stated above, Delia Browne is the course organiser. She will be assisted by:


 *   Lila Bailey (Creative Commons Counsel) based in San Francisco at Creative Commons
 *   Jessica Coates (CC Australia and Queensland University of Technology) based in Brisbane
 *   Tobias Schonwetter Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Intellectual Property Research Unit in South Africa
 *   Prodromos Tsiavos - London School of Economics
 *   Andrew Rens, Intellectual Property Fellow for the Shuttleworth Foundation.


How is the course taught?

The course is not taught, it is facilitated by the course leaders. The course is student participation focused.Students are divided into small groups to work through each week's case scenario and the weekly readings.

The groups organise their online communications/discussions (via email, Google docs, Skype, tokbox etc) and jointly submit an answer to the weekly case scenario (week 1- 5) and final assignment (Week 6) on the course blog.

The http://p2pu.org<http://p2pu.org/> website platform allows students to communicate asynchronously via wikis (group communication and discussion) and a course blog (group answers submitted).

Synchronous tools are not supported by the site but there are recommendations of some real time communication tools each group may elect to use to hold a class meeting or discussion.

In addition, each group also provides an assessment of the other groups' answers to the weekly case studies.

The leaders basically review and mark the student group work (pass/fail) that has been posted to the blog and provide comments where they have gone wrong.  As stated above, the leaders act as facilitators rather than traditional teachers.

In the final assignment, groups may elect to create helpful OER tools on copyright or draft a letter to their government on a copyright law reform issue or create an OER plan.

Please note places are limited, but there should be at least one group of 4-5 Australian based participants provided there are enough enrolments.

More Information

There is further information on the P2PU website http://p2pu.org in the 'Copyright For Educators' section where you can look at the Course Outline, the Weekly Assignments and the Weekly Readings. There is also more information on how groups meet and communicate.

Please feel free to browse and/or enrol in the other courses on offer.

I want to enrol - what do I do?

Go to http://p2pu.org and click courses, select 'Copyright For Educators' and then follow the sign up requirements. This will involve answering a self assessment questionnaire.

The deadline for enrolments is the 28 February 2010 (this may be extended. If so it will be announced on http://p2pu.org<http://p2pu.org/>).

Once that is done, you will be contacted around 10 March 2010 to confirm your enrolment. The course starts on 15 March 2010.

Please note that the number of students in the course is limited so you may not get in for this cycle. However, we do plan to run additional 'Copyright For Educators' courses throughout 2010. Those that are unlucky this time, will be alerted to the next round sign up.

Thank you,

Sylvie Saab
National Copyright Officer
Ministerial Council on Education, Early Childhood
Development and Youth Affairs
Level 5, 35 Bridge Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: (02) 9561 8730
Fax: (02) 9561 1499
Email: Sylvie.Saab at det.nsw.edu.au



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Cheers,
Pia

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