Everything open

Empowering Teachers and Students

As K-12 educators, you face unique challenges when it comes to using the Web. Not only are you trying to find resources to aid your teaching, but you're also on the lookout for resources that your students can use -- legally, technically, and socially. With so much out there, it can be difficult to figure out what is and isn't suitable for classroom use -- not to mention what will interest students long enough to tear them away from what’s trending on social media

This paper examines some of the particular challenges around licensing and intellectual property presented by the massive open online course (MOOC) movement. It offers a brief description of the history and nature of the MOOC movement, and underlines how the specific focus of many MOOCs on the collection and analysis of user data has an effect on the way content is presented and licensed. In particular, it focuses on the institutional impact of these decisions, and recommends the investigation of open licences as a means to allow institutions to glean maximum benefit from the time and money they have spent on content creation for MOOCs.

The history of changes to the intellectual property status of research and scholarship under the rubric of open science.

Educators and institutions have a choice about who controls MOOC copyright, their ability to earn revenue and their MOOC user data.