FE's clearly more restrictive than HE. In the pre-92 HE institutions I've worked in, although officially any works created during the course of a job were considered copyright of the institution, for academics there was a concession that they retained authorship of any published papers and articles, including presumably OER content. For instance, I can think of many academic colleagues who wrote books stemming from their institutional work, and whilst the institution got a cut of the sales the colleagues retained copyright.

The impression I get is that such an arrangement is commonplace in pre-92 academia, as part of the collegiate academic ethos whereby knowledge is shared in the academic community.

Fred
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On 9 March 2015 at 13:38, Tavis Reddick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

For staff working in publicly-funded educational institutions, presumably terms and conditions of employment have an impact on enabling/disabling support for open educational resources (and other aspects of open education, like open source coding).

 

I am aware of a quite restrictive example (for support staff, not specifically educators) which refers to works created “whether or not in the course of your employment” being “the absolute property of the College”. This would seemingly prevent private contributions to the world of OER for those staff.

 

Even assuming that the institution’s terms followed the standard practice for copyright creation of resources, there may be scope for expressing a preference that the licence these would be made available under would be an open, rather than a commercial one.

 

Are there any model terms and conditions of employment which demonstrate how OER can be positively supported (in the UK and beyond)?

 

 

Tavis Reddick

Enterprise Systems Support Technologist

ICT Services

Stenton Campus, Glenrothes

Fife College

01592 223313

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