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. 9 pages. Click to advance.

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 from the granting instructor. INSTRUCTOR INSTRUCTORE PERMISSION

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.