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That assumes that the effort can all be recorded. It is more likely that a lot of the extra time goes into answering student questions in an online forum and ad
by willj 6y ago
That assumes that the effort can all be recorded. It is more likely that a lot of the extra time goes into answering student questions in an online forum and adjusting content on the fly based on students’ interests and/or confusion.
- nanna 6y agoTotally. It also assumes that students will pay the UK's vast fees for a course made up entirely of non-interactive video content. And that teachers will grant the university the right to redistribute their videos, which is their IP. Honestly it feels like it boils down to the assumption that students will keep paying the same amount of money for a degree with a world famous university's branding. It seems to really be that transactional for senior management.
- red_admiral 6y agoThe IP argument is intresting because I've seen at least one Russell Group uni write into its employment T&C that the university owns the IP for any videos produced, retains these rights if the lecturer leaves and is allowed to licence them to third parties.
- conistonwater 6y agoWhy is this controversial? Everything you do at work is owned by the employer, is that not how it always works?
- ModernMech 6y agoTraditionally the instructor owns copyright for course material: “ Few reported cases exist addressing the issue of whether the educational institution or the faculty member owns the copyright to teaching materials prepared by a faculty member. All the reported cases that do exist have either held, or stated in dictum, that the copyright to the materials at issue in those cases belonged to the faculty member, at least in the absence of an explicit agreement to the contrary between the institution and the faculty member. Thus, cases have essentially followed the "teacher exception" to the work for hire rule.” https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&=&context=elj&=&sei-redir=1 https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
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- jamessb 6y agoThat is the default, but it depends what your employment contract says. The relationship between a university and its academic staff is not quite a typical employer/employee relationship: academics have much more freedom to choose what to work on, and typically have more ownership of intellectual property they produce. This article gives a good introduction: Copyright ownership of e-learning and teaching materials: Policy approaches taken by UK universities https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-017-9583-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-017-9583-4
- conistonwater 6y agoThanks, I did not know that.
- nanna 6y agoIt's a fair question. No need to downvote.