Understanding and engaging with legislation, policies and standards

I must say this might be the section I will have less to share. I have attended several session on legislation , policies and standards here at the university. Every time there is a new session being offered on this thematic I try to attend it, because I think it is important to know the latest information within this context, as one of my roles as a learning technologist is to support and mentor staff to act according to the current legislation, policies and standards.

Copyright laws has been the sub-area I have devoted more time, especially to the use licensed materials in online environments, as well as the production and reproduction of content in a digital format. That is an issue I address with all the people I work with here at the university. We need to be aware of the copyright issues. In this sense I have developed this wiki page with relevant information staff can access. I also use it as part of some of my training workshops.

I believe it is important to make people aware of the kind of licences there are for online publishing and refer to the growing phenomenon of Creative Commons licensing  which is also changing the way academics and Educational Institutions are sharing information and opening up their content to a wider world. We have the example of MIT’s , Yale’s or Open University’s open courses, which are all licensed under a creative Commons licence. Although we are still not all there (most universities still operate quite closed within themselves) I share the idea this will be the way forward.

Prof. Laurence Lessig’s blog is one of my frequent readings, not only as part of my personal development, but also as a strategy to keep up with the latest developments in online law. we need to follow our mentors and read their ideas.

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