With apologies for cross-posting, we thought this would
interest a broad audience.  The issue of who owns online
courses is an increasingly important one on many campuses.

Joan Lippincott

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Dear Colleague,

The second monograph from the Pew Symposia on Learning and
Technology, Who Owns On-Line Courses and Course Materials:
Intellectual Property Policies for a New Learning Environment,
is now available on our Web site (including a downloadable PDF
version) at:

   http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono2.html

Five thousand printed copies of the monograph are being distributed
to campus presidents of institutions of 3,000 or more students,
EDUCAUSE institutional representatives (about 1800 CIOs), association
officers and various other higher education opinion makers.

The monograph captures the results of an invitational symposium on
this topic held on February 17-18, 2000, in Miami, Florida.
Participants included recognized experts on the topic of intellectual
property; those who are actively engaged in developing and implementing
on-line programs and who are grappling with intellectual property
issues on a daily basis; people who approach the issue from a
corporate perspective and who collaborate with both individuals and
institutions; and noted higher education thinkers on the topic of
technology-mediated programs.  Our goal in Miami was to give
institutions some concrete advice about what their approaches to
intellectual property policy should be and why.

I hope you will find this publication useful as you think about
these important issues, and I welcome your comments about the
ideas it contains.


Best ... Carol
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Dr. Carol A. Twigg
Executive Director
Center for Academic Transformation
518-276-6519 (voice), 518-695-5633 (fax)
http://www.center.rpi.edu/