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WORKSHOPS AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Dealing with copyright
A 1½ day workshop with Madeleine Gilbart and Richard McCracken
Date: 10 October 2000, 09.30-17.00. 11 October, 09.30-1300.
If you're producing learning materials, you may well want to draw on other
people's work. But how to do so without infringing their rights? It explores
the practicalities of rights clearance as a core part of the production
process. This is your opportunity to discuss your own specific rights
problems with experienced practitioners.
Venue: The Open University Training Centre, Cofferidge Close, Stony
Stratford, Milton Keynes.
Who will benefit: Everyone engaged in the acquisition, creation,
presentation and distribution of educational materials. It will be of
particular interest to those responsible for or engaged in the production of
materials incorporating materials taken from other sources. The course will
range from issues surrounding photocopying and simple video recording
through to the more complex rights issues cast by the new and emerging
digital technologies.
Workshop aims: The workshop should help you explore and gain practical
insights into the following issues:
1. Copyright: What does it protect? How can it be used without clearance?
2. Collective licensing and licensing arrangements.
3. Rights - how do rights differ from copyright?
4. Broadcast and audio visual clearances.
5. Computer based systems.
6. Multimedia: So what makes it so different?
Fee: £250, less 10% discount if you book more than one place on this or any
of our other workshops or courses. (Each workshop member will receive a copy
of Buying and Clearing Rights: Print, Broadcast and Multimedia.)
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Quality assurance in open and distance learning
A 1-day workshop with Bernadette Robinson
Date: 14 December 2000, 09.30 - 17.00.
Venue: The Open University Training Centre, Cofferidge Close, Stony
Stratford, Milton Keynes.
How can you ensure good quality in your learning materials or services? How
can you track problems systematically? How can you use your findings to
improve quality and satisfy your assessors?
Who will benefit: Teachers, trainers, managers and course developers
interested in monitoring and improving the quality of learning materials and
services.
Workshop aims:The workshop should help you to:
1. Examine examples of open and distance learning systems in which quality
seems capable of improvement.
2. Identify aspects of your own system whose quality might be improved.
3. Consider a range of tools and approaches for use in quality assurance.
4. Draw up an Action Plan for improving quality in your own organisation or
section.
Fee: £195-less 10% discount if you book more than one place on this or any
of our other workshops or courses.
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For further information or to book a place on either of these workshops
please contact Brenda Parish , tel: 01908 653055, fax: 01908 654173, email:
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Christine Wellard
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