Use Licenses & Permissions

The Strategy

Enable deans to assist their faculty in adapting to online pedagogies

Compensate instructors to develop specific online courses.

Encourage the more advanced instructors to allow the less advanced to use their course materials.

Maintain the creators’ full copyrights.

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Administration of the Strategy

Three Use-Licenses

A USE-LICENSE for newly-contracted instructors to use course materials of veteran instructors.

An EXTENDED-USE LICENSE—Compensated: Deans who compensated an instructor for creating a course are automatically authorized to provide a Use-License to other instructors.

A similar EXTENDED-USE LICENSE—Free: Course creators freely grant this license to deans.

An Informal Use-Permission

Access and use-permission of course materials granted by one instructor to another.

The Use-License

A USE LICENCE enables deans to extend to newly-contracted instructors a fully-developed online course using materials created by a veteran instructor.

DEAN

NEWLY-CONTRACTED INSTRUCTORSE

USE LICENSE

EXTENDED USE LICENSE

An EXTENDED USE LICENSE authorizes deans to extend USE LICENSES to many instructors.

Backed by Extended Use-Licenses

DEAN

NEWLY-CONTRACTED INSTRUCTORSE

USE LICENSE

An EXTENDED USE LICENSE: COMPENSATED automatically authorizes deans to extend USE LICENSES to any instructor of a course for which the creator was specifically compensated to create it.

Specifically compensated to create a specific course

VETERAN INSTRUCTORS

EXTENDED USE LICENSE: COMPENSATED

DEAN

NEWLY-CONTRACTED INSTRUCTORSE

USE LICENSE

Backed by Extended Use-Licenses

Any instructor may freely grant to the University an EXTENDED USE LICENSE: FREE

Freely grants the University an extended use license , possibly with restrictions.

EXTENDED USE LICENSE: FREE

Specifically compensated to create a specific course

EXTENDED USE LICENSE: COMPENSATED

DEAN

NEWLY-CONTRACTED INSTRUCTORSE

USE LICENSE

VETERAN INSTRUCTORS

Backed by Extended Use-Licenses

Informal Use-Permission

Any instructor may informally grant any other instructor permission to use his/her course materials, possibly under certain conditions. A record of this permission should be retain by the receiving instructor via the email from the granting instructor.

INSTRUCTOR INSTRUCTOREPERMISSION

The History

The SHU culture of sharing copyrighted course materials is not the product of any meetings about strategy or planning. It originated in the values evident in decisions made by SHU instructors who adapted early to online education.

The Future

As online technologies become further integrated into our teaching mission, it is vital to retain and nourish a culture of sharing among faculty for the sake of effective online teaching.