A one page review form with 8 overall criteria and tagging suggestions to provide a basic and quick overview of an OER.
The Claremont Colleges Open Education advocacy guide for student leaders
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For students, the high cost of educational resources and textbooks can be a serious obstacle to the accessibility and affordability of a post-secondary education. For instructors, traditional educational resources may also present a barrier to innovation in teaching and curriculum design. Fortunately, open educational resources (OER) provide a viable solution to both these issues. OER can be accessed for free online or printed at a fraction of the cost of a traditional textbook, and can be edited to better fit the curricular or pedagogical goals of an instructor.
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The high cost of educational resources and textbooks create a serious obstacle to the accessibility and affordability of a post-secondary education. Traditional educational resources also present barriers to innovation in pedagogy and curriculum design. Fortunately, open educational resources (OER) are a viable solution to both these problems, since they can be accessed for free online or printed at a fraction of the cost of a traditional textbook and can be edited to better fit the curricular or pedagogical goals of an instructor.
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Esquisse, sous forme de présentation Powerpoint, de l'orientation probable du régime de partenariat post Brexit entre l'Union européenne et le Royaume-Uni au terme de la période transitoire de retrait, en tenant compte de l'acquis européen concernant les accords de nouvelle génération de l'Union avec les pays tiers en matière commerciale et le traitement non discriminatoire de migrants de pays tiers selon le modèle suivi par l'Union dans ses accords avec les pays de la Méditerranée.
These videos are a set of lectures by Pr. Pierre d'Argent about Public International Law. They are part of an online open course (MOOC) on edX.org. Each video is part of a specific learning sequence, being supplemented by texts and documents available in that online course. To make full sense of the videos, those texts and documents must be taken into account. However, on the issues they cover, the videos are explanatory. To access the course and all its material, please go to https://www.edx.org/course/international-law-louvainx-louv5x
This lesson will introduce students to an important event that took place on this day.
This is an edited volume of chapters from copyright experts around the globe explaining complex copyright issues in a clear, concise way. The majority of the chapters are licensed CC-BY.
This is an edited volume of chapters from copyright experts around the globe explaining complex copyright issues in a clear, concise way. The majority of the chapters are licensed CC-BY.
Please use this course shell as a frame to adapt current courses into a Universal Design for Learning Format or as a frame to build and new courses.
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The impetus for this volume was a multitude of conversations regarding pedagogy and teaching related to our judicial process courses. Based on these conversations, we identified four main threads or needs of our colleagues: First, many of us bring or want to bring more “political science” into our classes, though we also want to avoid the high costs of reinventing successful existing courses to do so. Second, our programs all require a political methodology course, and we want to reinforce those lessons in our substantive courses. We want to encourage our students’ understanding of how to read and understand research studies as well as how to craft their own research questions. Third, we want to keep our courses as current as possible. And fourth, we wanted to find a way to bring the cost of our courses down, as we see so many students struggle with the high costs of a college degree. This volume (as well as any future editions) addresses each of these concerns. Data Dashboard
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The impetus for this volume was a multitude of conversations regarding pedagogy and teaching related to our judicial process courses. Based on these conversations, we identified four main threads or needs of our colleagues: First, many of us bring or want to bring more “political science” into our classes, though we also want to avoid the high costs of reinventing successful existing courses to do so. Second, our programs all require a political methodology course, and we want to reinforce those lessons in our substantive courses. We want to encourage our students’ understanding of how to read and understand research studies as well as how to craft their own research questions. Third, we want to keep our courses as current as possible.
Volume 2 is available at https://open.oregonstate.education/ojp3e-vol2/
The impetus for this volume was a multitude of conversations regarding pedagogy and teaching related to our judicial process courses. Based on these conversations, we identified four main threads or needs of our colleagues: First, many of us bring or want to bring more “political science” into our classes, though we also want to avoid the high costs of reinventing successful existing courses to do so. Second, our programs all require a political methodology course, and we want to reinforce those lessons in our substantive courses. We want to encourage our students’ understanding of how to read and understand research studies as well as how to craft their own research questions. Third, we want to keep our courses as current as possible.
Vol. 1 is available at https://open.oregonstate.education/ojp3e-vol1/
Open Source Property: A Free Casebook is a free resource for instructors and students of the first-year Property Law course at American law schools, and anyone else with an interest in the subject.
This is a short micro-course that will introduce students to open education, copyright, and open licensing. It is helpful because it contains reading and practice assignments that guide students through copyright. There are optional pre-tests where you can test what you already know about the subject before engaging with the material as well. Throughout the modules, quizzes not only help to keep you engaged, but show you whether you are learning the material.
You are required to create a free account to access the course materials.
It is important to note that this is not strictly based on United States copyright law, but it does provide a good overview of general copyright rules.
Today, intellectual property (IP) scholars accept that IP as an approach to information production has serious limits. But what lies beyond IP? A new literature on “intellectual production without IP” (or “IP without IP”) has emerged to explore this question, but its examples and explanations have yet to convince skeptics. This Article reorients this new literature via a study of a hard case: a global influenza virus-sharing network that has for decades produced critically important information goods, at significant expense, and in a loose-knit group—all without recourse to IP. I analyze the Network as an example of “open science,” a mode of information production that differs strikingly from conventional IP, and yet that successfully produces important scientific goods in response to social need. The theory and example developed here refute the most powerful criticisms of the emerging “IP without IP” literature, and provide a stronger foundation for this important new field. Even where capital costs are high, creation without IP can be reasonably effective in social terms, if it can link sources of funding to reputational and evaluative feedback loops like those that characterize open science. It can also be sustained over time, even by loose-knit groups and where the stakes are high, because organizations and other forms of law can help to stabilize cooperation. I also show that contract law is well suited to modes of information production that rely upon a “supply side” rather than “demand side” model. In its most important instances, “order without IP” is not order without governance, nor order without law. Recognizing this can help us better ground this new field, and better study and support forms of knowledge production that deserve our attention, and that sometimes sustain our very lives.
This openly licensed whitepaper is all about how scholars own and use intellectual property. Thus, it covers copyright, patent, and trademark laws and explains how scholars on a university campus can engage with their own rights and the rights of others. It covers, among other things, university IP policies, the work made for hire doctrine, basic intellectual property, joint ownership of works, open access, licensing, fair use, and more. This is a great primer to discuss the legalities of academic scholarship on university campuses.
This book is a collection of open readings on Homeland Security for Public Policy 476 at Penn State University World Campus.
a short history of the Cumberland Mental Health Precinct
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The Cumberland Precinct in North Parramatta is home to some of the most significant heritage sites in New South Wales. Most of it has been under continuous occupation by Europeans from the 1790s and the ‘female factory’, built in 1818, was one of the earliest government buildings on the site. The history of its transformation into an insane asylum, and then mental health precinct, provides us with insights into nearly 200 years of convict and medical history in Australia. This free e-book is a compendium of on-line articles written by Research and Collection Services Staff.
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This can serve as the text for a 1-hour Undergraduate Level Patent Law Class
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This week, Stan teaches you about patents. It turns out, they're patently complicated! So, patents have some similarities to copyright, in that they grant a limited monopoly to people who invent things. The key difference between patents and copyright is that patents are for THINGS. Copyright is for an idea. So, if you've come up with a great new invention, like for example, a condiment gun, you should get a patent. We'll also talk about some of the limitations and problems of patents, including patent trolls
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk Hanson talks with Jacqueline Fan, a partner at Ernst & Young, about corruption, bribery, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. She identifies supply chain problems, financial statement fraud, and the rapid transition in the economy as ethical challenges when doing business in China.