Conference/Workshop: Legal Aspects of Online Learning Environments
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, University of Warwick
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Last year, JISC Legal held a very successful two-day workshop on Legal
Aspects of Online Learning Environments. Due to the overwhelming demand
for the event, we've decided to hold the workshop again, in a concentrated
one-day format (with the possibility of an overnight stay the night
before, if you'd like to avoid an early start travelwise!).
Legal issues in education are a growing concern. If it's not an aggrieved
student seeking damages and raising negative publicity, it's the quality
inspection declaring no confidence due to non-compliance. Yet VLEs and
MLEs are often developed on a technology-first, pedagogy-second, anything-
else-is-afterthought model.
Soon, you may be faced with:
the discovery that an enthusiastic tutor has scanned in hundreds of pages
of journal articles, and the CLA want to know how such a breach of
copyright happened.
Or a raft of non-accessible content pages developed by eager and under-
aware tutors.
Or a student submitting a s.10 notice under the Data Protection Act 1998
to request non-processing of his data on the MLE.
And nothing said of the tutor who has just spent vast amounts of her time
writing materials from scratch, when other people's materials could have
been copyright cleared.
The Legal Aspects of Online Learning Environments Conference/Workshop will
deal with these issues head on, giving you:
informed, practical information from expert speakers knowledgeable about
law and practice in the FE and HE sectors
practical tools to allow you avoid legal issues and to comply with
regulation regarding the development of a VLE or MLE
the chance to quiz lawyers on any particular queries you may have in
relation to the legal aspects of online learning environments
the ability to send JISC Legal any questions you want answered at the
Conference/Workshop
a valuable opportunity to network with colleagues facing similar
challenges, to share ideas and experience
For further details, visit
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/events/OLE_06/Programme.htm
And for online bookings, visit
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/events/OLE_06/Booking_Form.htm
In the meantime, if you have any queries, please email us at
[log in to unmask] or call us on 0141 548 4939.
Apologies if you have received this notice more than once by different
routes
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JISC Legal
Learning Services
University of Strathclyde
Alexander Turnbull Building
155 George Street
Glasgow G1 1RD
Tel: 0141 548 4939
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