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The Copyright Rebellion

On 05/31/2011, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, legislatures / government / legal, library / librarians, by Daniel Christian

The Copyright Rebellion — from The Chronicle
New lawsuits and policies have hobbled teaching and research. Now scholars are pushing back.

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Chronicle illustration by Bob McGrath

The digital age was supposed to put information at our fingertips. Books and data and images on an Internet browser would be just a click away.

Instead, scholars are being denied access to millions of books. Images are not being distributed. Two major universities face lawsuits by book and video publishers for using digital copies in courses. And the U.S. Congress has placed behind the wall of copyright many items that used to be in the public domain.

Also see:

Online :: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EDT :: July 26 & 28, 2011
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Senate passes patent office reforms [From DSC: Will this help education-related innnovations?]

On 03/15/2011, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, education technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, legislatures / government / legal, by Daniel Christian

Senate passes patent office reforms –from TheStreet.com

BOSTON (TheStreet) — The most comprehensive overhaul of U.S. patent law since the 1950s was approved by the U.S. Senate last week.

The America Invents Act, approved by a 95-5 vote, is intended to minimize the 700,000-application backlog faced by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, deter the diversion of its revenue to other government agencies and establish a system that grants patents to the first person to file an application, rather than having to determine who was first to produce a product.

From DSC:
I’m hopeful that this will encourage innovations within the world of educational technologies and better support educational entrepreneurship.

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[Kevin Kelly] Better than free: How value is generated in a free copy world

On 02/19/2011, in attention, business, convergence, copyright/ownership/NFTs, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, future, interactivity, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, publishing, storytelling, by Daniel Christian

Better than free: How value is generated in a free copy world

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Brief summary/notes from DSC:
Per Kevin Kelly (Feb 2011), the future is about 6 verbs:

  1. Screening — we are moving from being “people of the book” to “people of the screen”
  2. Interacting
  3. Sharing
  4. Accessing — not owning
  5. Flowing — streams/flows of data and information, tags, clouds, not pages, real time, always on (24x7x3765), everywhere, no sense of being completed, feeds, flows of data, books will operate in this same environment
  6. Generating — not copying; pressure on things to become free; value is in things that cannot be copied (easily or cheaply). We want “easy to pay for but hard to copy”; things such as:
  • immediacy
  • personalization
  • authentication
  • findability
  • embodiment
  • interpretation
  • accessibility
  • attention

Originally from — and see:

  • Gerd Leonhard at the Futures Agency.com
  • …and with thanks to O’Reilly for publishing this!
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10 online resources for free, legal music

On 02/07/2011, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, multimedia, music, by Daniel Christian

10 online resources for free, legal music — from Mashable.com by Brenna Ehrlich

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Copyright and Fair Use Issues in Online Education

On 01/03/2011, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, online learning, online media, by Daniel Christian

Copyright and Fair Use Issues in Online Education — Faculty Focus

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Future of Media: Gerd Leonhard

On 12/28/2010, in 24x7x365 access, business, collaboration, copyright/ownership/NFTs, corporate / business world, future, game-changing environment, generational differences, media/film, online media, social learning / networks, social media, strategy, telecommunications, trends, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

The future of media -- Gerd Leonhard -- Dec 2010

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eLearning predictions for 2011 and beyond

On 12/27/2010, in 24x7x365 access, accreditation, adjunct faculty, blended learning, career development, content development, aggregation, repositories, copyright/ownership/NFTs, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, e-books, e-readers, educational games / serious games, elearning, faculty, formal learning, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, informal learning, leadership, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, open courseware and systems, personalized/customized learning, strategy, training / L&D, trends, ubiquitous learning, by Daniel Christian

eLearning predictions for 2011 and beyond — from Web Courseworks.com by Jon Aleckson

Excerpts:

This summer I attended the 2010 Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Some very interesting topics came up in the facilitated Think Tanks, and I wanted to share some of the predictions that were developed from these active group discussions regarding where eLearning will go in the next ten years.

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Below you will find a table that summarizes the different opportunities and challenges that were predicted to arise in the next ten years by the participants in the conference Think Tanks and by [Jon Aleckson].

Opportunities Challenges
Learner
  1. Bridging informal and formal education
  2. Movement between schools to obtain courses needed for custom degrees
  3. Increase in shared knowledge among students and learners
  4. Networking and learning from each other
  5. Resumes will include informal and formal learning experiences acquired via the Internet
  1. Developing standards to gauge education and competency from multiple sources
  2. Providing an authoritative, reliable source for information (e.g. not just Wikipedia)
  3. Physical and psychological distance from other learners and instructors.
  4. Quality measures for informal and formal professional development attained on the Internet.
K-12 Instruction
  1. Reducing barriers to funding, certification, credit and accreditation
  2. Increase access to quality education for all students
  3. Open “course” concept to new blends of delivery and teaching
  4. Providing for more game-based learning experiences and techniques for a variety of learning styles
  5. Using new technology in the classroom
  1. Defining online and blended education
  2. Development of technical infrastructure, internet access and equipment
  3. Maintaining the custodial function of school
  4. Acquiring funding for bold Internet delivered experiences for the classroom
  5. Allowing use of new technology in the classroom
Corporate Training
  1. Just-in-time learning
  2. Greater access to information
  3. Peer coaching
  4. Cloud training
  5. Ability to reach those previously unreachable
  1. Intellectual property rights
  2. Resistance to using open content
  3. Peer review of resources
  4. Unknown impact of open universities
  5. Technical challenges related to size of offerings and rapidly changing technology
Content
  1. Tools allowing for easier collaboration and interaction
  2. Richer media experience (videos and simulations)
  3. Content repositories & Learning Object distribution and searchability
  4. Movement away from static textbooks as primary resource
  1. Growing tension between standard core content and differentiation of content
  2. Where will content for curriculum come from?
  3. What part will student-generated content play?
  4. More copyright issues
Learning Environment
  1. Customized learning spaces, i.e. personal learning environments (PLEs)
  2. Customization of content presentation and access
  3. eReaders and eBooks providing better and more interactive content (just in time)
  4. Changing paradigm of “bounded courses” to unbounded courses where learning is a continuous process that can occur anywhere and at any time
  1. Determining fit and purpose of new tools and pedagogical approaches
  2. Standards for smart phones/mobile apps
  3. Issues with accreditation, privacy and copyrights
  4. Universal access to technology, equipment, and the internet
Faculty
  1. More involvement and collaboration with online and distance learning initiatives
  2. More part-time faculty teaching for several institutions
  3. Faculty practices and entrepreneurs
  4. Changing role of faculty and PD instructors
  1. What will the primary role of faculty be?
  2. Faculty segmentation into master teachers, mentors, researchers, tutors, etc.
  3. Changing of promotion and tenure to accommodate different roles
  4. Changing pay structure
Administration
&
Management
  1. Continued growth of open education with some program stabilization
  2. Improved learner focus
  3. Increased blending/blurring of traditional on-campus with online options
  4. More collaboration with other administrators to influence policy makers
  1. Managing and maintaining growth
  2. How to blend on and off campus learner programs
  3. Regulatory and accreditation issues
  4. Student accountability issues (plagiarism/doctoring)
  5. Improving faculty/ instructor readiness
International Perspectives
  1. Providing access to education even to remote, rural, and developing areas
  2. Promote intercultural mixing and diversity through education
  3. Improving educational access in segregated societies
  4. Sharing resources and co-producing content to reduce cost
  5. Serve new growing customer groups
  6. Informal learning, sharing own learning with others via internet (e.g. blogs, wiki)
  1. Technological infrastructure of societies
  2. Understanding of different people and places
  3. Eliminating the “we and they” thinking
  4. Illiterate audiences
  5. International/cultural conflicts
  6. Developing culturally aware curricula
  7. Differences in cost of education and fees
  8. Selecting suitable types of content delivery
  9. Refiguring content for different learner communities
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Open Educational Resources (OER) 101: Theory and Practice

On 11/15/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, online media, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Open Educational Resources (OER) 101 -- by David Wiley

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Intellectual property, copyright, and harassment: Navigating the murky legal waters of online teaching

On 10/18/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, teaching online, by Daniel Christian

Intellectual property, copyright, and harassment: Navigating the murky legal waters of online teaching — from FacultyFocus.com by Mary Bart

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PicScout — interesting way of finding images and then immediately purchasing them

On 10/08/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, design, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, graphics, by Daniel Christian

PicScout.com -- for quickly and easily finding and purchasing images

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Also see:
Download the plug-in for Firefox

The blog at picscount.com:
http://blog.picscout.com/

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Free and royalty-free music and sound effects

On 10/01/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, multimedia, music, by Daniel Christian

Free Music & Sound Effects — from JewelBeat.com

Use these free music tracks & free sound effects for any production – advertising, education, videos, photos, YouTube…etc.

These music tracks can be looped seamlessly & repeated to create a longer music track for your projects.

You only need to link to our website from yours:
“Music by JewelBeat. Download your free music and free sound effects at www.jewelbeat.com.”

Original posting from:
Background music and sound effects – Free is good — from the Screening Room

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Musopen raises $40,000 to set classical music “free” (via ars technica)

On 09/14/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, music, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Setting Classical Music Free

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Royalty-free music: Where to find free music tracks for your video clips

On 08/31/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, digital audio, digital video, music, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Royalty-free music: Where to find free music tracks for your video clips — from Robin Good’s Latest News by Daniele Bazzano

As you probably know, it is illegal to use copyrighted commercial music when publishing video clips online. For example, YouTube has developed a copyright-protection system that immediately detects unlicensed uses of copyrighted music tracks inside videos published online and silences them or blocks them from public viewing. So, how can you get a nice background music to place on your videos without infringing the law? The MasterNewMeda research team comes to the rescue with this guide listing all of the best services on the web to get or download open and unrestricted royalty free music.

Also see older posting:
Where can you find royalty free music

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Recording Lectures: Legal Considerations (28/07/2010) — from JISC (UK)

On 07/30/2010, in adjunct faculty, copyright/ownership/NFTs, faculty, legislatures / government / legal, UK, by Daniel Christian

Recording Lectures: Legal Considerations (28/07/2010) — from JISC (UK)

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Recording Lectures: Legal Considerations -- from JISC July 2010

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Decrypting and Repurposing DVDs: Opportunity for Library, IT Partnerships – from NITLE

On 07/30/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, adjunct faculty, copyright/ownership/NFTs, digital video, faculty, IT in HE, library / librarians, media/film, by Daniel Christian

Decrypting and Repurposing DVDs: Opportunity for Library, IT Partnerships

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