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HELD DECEMBER 8, 1998 WILLIAMS 2215 Input from those attending meeting: 1. Hopes the task force will not abandon the historical basis of the author owning the copyright to his/her textbook 2. Extension issues; look at differences in materials i.e. why certain materials are produced as impacting who is the owner of the materials 3. What are "significant" staff hours for joint ownership; on-line course development is very much a team effort and requires determination of how long term management is to be achieved. 4. When does posting something constitute pre-publication affecting ability to get something published in print? 5. Faculty can now attract students to their courses without necessarily attracting them to NC State. Faculty should be compensated if want to keep the course at NC State. 6. Hope the university doesn't get too nitpicky on use of resources; think about "local control" i.e. leave judgment at the department level as to how much a faculty member has contributed. 7. Don't confuse cost of production with ownership of materials 8. Clearly differentiate between e-content and traditional courses 9. Clearly differentiate between who produces and who distributes 10. Definition of content versus format (format of materials and investments and the content of materials and investments...Should there be a distinction? 11. Should the format of materials matter in assessing contribution/recognition/compensation? 12. How does the investment of instructor and staff time weigh against university money? 13. What role does funding play in ownership or access rights? What is "sufficient" quality/quantity of state resources? Do resources like computers and scanners give equal and similar contribution to staff? 14. Individual components of a course like text books, e journal articles with multimedia included... Require team assembly/effort. What is compensation like? (e.g. Student work used in examples, assistance from graphic person or design school intern?) 15. What is the definition of a published work? What avenues of display constitute published work? Do these definitions conflict with objectives for internet activities? 16. Pressure toward online development (where is pressure coming from? Not necessarily the university as was implied....) and how does this affect taking a preexisting product (i.e. Course or text book, or database collection) and developing it further into another product (i.e. Encyclopedia, problem set, lab manual...) who has access rights? Ownership rights? Who deserves recognition and in what form? 17. Is the mere production of the material a benefit of the university by the virtue of PR? (i.e. University is not entitled to compensation beyond tuition and not entitled to access because the value the university receives from having the course, etext, database etc. Is more valuable? 18. How does having other institutions access materials work? Do we charge, who reaps the benefits of those charges and revenues? Will there be a royalty arrangement for faculty? 19. Reward structure for faculty? Why? Because it will increase enrollment - another benefit to the university that is not costed to the faculty? 20. Skilled staff is not the same contribution as a printer or scanner, or a typist, data entry person. I am a non-tenure faculty member who contributes to these courses in a way that is not simply productivity. 21. With online courses..the concept of "text book" is going away. There is going to be no more text book. It is all integrated into a course module. The web and the media become both the text book and the course. __________________________________ |
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