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The Tangled Web: Sharing materials via
the web
Alison Dickens
Subject Centre LLAS
24th November 2004
The Materials Bank
• Set up as part of a project 2002
• Aims to:
– Provide a repository for in-house teaching materials from
Higher Education
– Encourage greater sharing and testing of resources
– Fund and disseminate materials development projects
– Explore issues relating to Reusable Learning Objects
– Provide information on materials development issues, e.g.
copyright, software tools etc.
www.llas.ac.uk/mb
The Materials Bank
•
Some examples
– Materials for an online course in Bulgarian (UCL)
– Linguistics multiple choice question bank (Swansea)
– Arabic for beginners (London Metropolitan)
– Phonetics for Students of Modern Languages (Southampton)
– German Grammar Question Bank (Loughborough)
– Los Peruanos (King’s College)
– Development of Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (FDTL)
– El problema del agua en España (Essex)
– Difficultés de la langue française (Portsmouth)
•
Call for new projects for 2004/5 ends 30th November 2004, results to be
announced in December 2004. See www.llas.ac.uk for more details
www.llas.ac.uk/mb
The Materials Bank
The Materials Bank
The Materials Bank
• Copyright Issues
– Exclusive Rights
– Non-exclusive Rights
– Third Party Copyright
• Subject Centre agreements
– Exclusive Rights
– Non-exclusive Rights
Copyright
• Other Rights
– Copyleft
“Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other
work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions
of the program to be free as well.” GNU licences
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
– Creative Commons
“Creative Commons is a new system, built within current
copyright law, that allows you to share your creations with
others and use music, movies, images, and text online that's
been marked with a Creative Commons license.”
http://creativecommons.org/
Copyright
• Other Rights
– Creative Commons
“Creative Commons is a new system, built within current
copyright law, that allows you to share your creations with
others and use music, movies, images, and text online that's
been marked with a Creative Commons license.”
http://creativecommons.org/
Copyright
• Subject Centre Copyright page
– Copyright booklet
– Links:
1. Copyright Agencies
2. Copyright Clearance
3. Copyright in Higher Education
4. Intellectual property rights
5. New developments in Copyright
6. Downloads
7. Publishers
Subject Centre Copyright Page