EIFL General Assembly 2010Session 8

Developing learning materials

Teresa HackettProgramme Manager EIFL-IP

Developing learning materialsCase study

“Copyright for Librarians" - an Online Open

Curriculum on Copyright Law

• developed with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

• launched in March 2010

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Developing learning materialsCase study

“Copyright for Librarians" - an Online Open

Curriculum on Copyright Law

• improved with recommendations from the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS), Uganda

• road-tested at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois

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Developing learning materials

• Aims to inform librarians about copyright law in general, and in particular aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries

Develops an understanding of

• role of libraries in protecting and promoting access to knowledge

• role of copyright in the development priorities of a country

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Developing learning materialsCourse design• Nine modules, at five different levels, can be used as the basis for a self-taught course, as traditional classroom learning or as distance-learning• Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence, the curriculum is freely available for printing, distribution, translation and adaptation

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Developing learning materials

Course contentIntroduction to Copyright Theory + Glossary1 Copyright and the Public Domain2 The International Framework3 The Scope of Copyright Law4 Rights, Exceptions and Limitations5 Managing Rights6 Creative Approaches and Alternatives7 Enforcement8 Traditional Knowledge9 Activism

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Developing learning materialsPromoting the curriculum

• Promotional materials

• Attending events and making contacts e.g. - eLearning Africa 2010- IFLA satellite meeting on LIS teaching and research, August 2010

• OER portals

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Developing learning materials

Implementing the curriculum

Self-taught course - each module has

• learning objective• case study• assignment and discussion questions

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Developing learning materials

Implementing the curriculum

Traditional classroom learning - library schools• EASLIS seminar, September 2009

Participants from Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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Traditional classroom learning (contd)

• Seminar and teaching session with Prof. Fisher, September 2010, University of Vilnius, LithuaniaInvitations Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, et al.

• Tempus project: Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan preparing new LIS masters courses, including copyright

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Traditional classroom learning (contd)

• appointed to IFLA Sub-Committee on Copyright Training to develop documentation and workshops to assist national library associations to develop training modules in copyright

Distance-learning - looking for partnerse.g. Open University of Catalonia, African Virtual University, FGV Brazil

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Developing learning materials

How you can help

• contacts at library schools?• distance education institutions?• translate and/or localise to your country or region

We welcome contacts and opportunities!

Curriculum available athttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/copyrightforlibrarians

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Developing learning materialsOther resources

EIFL Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries

• Covers topicallegal issues affectinginformation work

• Available in Armenian, Arabic, English, French, Moldovan, Polish, Russian

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Developing learning materialsOther resources

EIFL-IP Draft Law onCopyright: including modelexceptions and limitationsfor libraries and consumers

• Practical guide to assistlibrarians, as well as theirlegal advisors and policymakers, when nationallaws are being updated

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Developing learning materialsOther resources

EIFL model licence for electronic resources

• developed by EIFL-Licensing• used for deals negotiated by EIFL and publishers• available to EIFL consortium members• contains provisions more favourable than standard commercial licences• enables effective use of online resources for learning, teaching and research

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Available at www.eifl.net

Thank you for listening

teresa.hackett@eifl.net

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