1. The Tangled Web: Sharing materials via the web Alison Dickens Subject Centre LLAS 24 th November 2004

2. The Materials Bank Set up as part of a project 2002 Aims to: –Provide a repository for in-house teaching materials from Higher Education –Encourage greater sharing and testing of resources –Fund and disseminate materials development projects –Explore issues relating to Reusable Learning Objects –Provide information on materials development issues, e.g. copyright, software tools etc. www.llas.ac.uk/mb

3. The Materials Bank Some examples –Materials for an online course in Bulgarian (UCL)Materials for an online course in Bulgarian –Linguistics multiple choice question bank (Swansea)Linguistics multiple choice question bank –Arabic for beginners (London Metropolitan)Arabic for beginners –Phonetics for Students of Modern Languages (Southampton)Phonetics for Students of Modern Languages –German Grammar Question Bank (Loughborough) –Los Peruanos (King’s College)Los Peruanos –Development of Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (FDTL) –El problema del agua en España (Essex)El problema del agua en España –Difficultés de la langue française (Portsmouth)Difficultés de la langue française Call for new projects for 2004/5 ends 30 th November 2004, results to be announced in December 2004. See www.llas.ac.uk for more detailswww.llas.ac.uk www.llas.ac.uk/mb

4. The Materials Bank

6. Copyright Issues –Exclusive Rights –Non-exclusive Rights –Third Party Copyright Subject Centre agreements –Exclusive RightsExclusive Rights –Non-exclusive RightsNon-exclusive Rights

7. Copyright Other Rights –Copyleft “Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.” GNU licences http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html –Creative CommonsCreative Commons “Creative Commons is a new system, built within current copyright law, that allows you to share your creations with others and use music, movies, images, and text online that's been marked with a Creative Commons license.” http://creativecommons.org/

8. Copyright Other Rights –Creative Commons “Creative Commons is a new system, built within current copyright law, that allows you to share your creations with others and use music, movies, images, and text online that's been marked with a Creative Commons license.” http://creativecommons.org/

9. Copyright Subject Centre Copyright page –Copyright bookletCopyright booklet –Links: 1. Copyright Agencies 2. Copyright Clearance 3. Copyright in Higher Education 4. Intellectual property rights 5. New developments in Copyright 6. Downloads 7. Publishers Subject Centre Copyright Page