Comments on: For the Folks at home: OpenEd09 http://lits.gen.nz/2009/08/21/for-the-folks-at-home-opened09/ Learning mainly Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:30:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Leigh Blackall http://lits.gen.nz/2009/08/21/for-the-folks-at-home-opened09/comment-page-1/#comment-36809 Leigh Blackall Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:57:54 +0000 http://lits.gen.nz/?p=476#comment-36809 No competition in NZ. There is only the Polytechnic who has declared itself Open Ed by writing a policy that defaults all content to CC By. That was the easy part. Now begins the years of undoing the culture grown in our organisation, to think that protecting content and process was "a good business model". I would suggest that you take my research that is saying that 13 staff at the Polytechnic have generated $80 000 worth of branding awareness and IT capacity by openly publishing their resources on teh Internet. Use that as an argument to review the Copyright Policy of UC. Change that policy so that individuals have the power to determine what copyrights to use, and if that person wishes to us UC as a platform to present their work, that it be licensed CC By. This way, UC still protects its interests and has open access to any IP produced by a staff member, the staff member gains elements of motivation, and UC and the staff member gain in brand awareness. Instigating a policy like this is the easy part though. Changing the culture is the hard part. But he culture can't change without a high level policy that removes any threat of the change being undermined later. No competition in NZ. There is only the Polytechnic who has declared itself Open Ed by writing a policy that defaults all content to CC By. That was the easy part. Now begins the years of undoing the culture grown in our organisation, to think that protecting content and process was “a good business model”.

I would suggest that you take my research that is saying that 13 staff at the Polytechnic have generated $80 000 worth of branding awareness and IT capacity by openly publishing their resources on teh Internet. Use that as an argument to review the Copyright Policy of UC. Change that policy so that individuals have the power to determine what copyrights to use, and if that person wishes to us UC as a platform to present their work, that it be licensed CC By.

This way, UC still protects its interests and has open access to any IP produced by a staff member, the staff member gains elements of motivation, and UC and the staff member gain in brand awareness.

Instigating a policy like this is the easy part though. Changing the culture is the hard part. But he culture can’t change without a high level policy that removes any threat of the change being undermined later.

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