Hi All,

P2PU (www.p2pu.org) is just about to start its next Copyright 4 Educators course! So if you missed out the first time round or know someone who would love to enrol, now is your chance.

What is P2PU?

P2PU is a volunteer open education project being incubated by the University of California (Irvine) with lots of support from Shuttleworth Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, CC Learn, Mozilla Foundation and others.

Delia Browne, National Copyright Director (National Copyright Unit) of the Copyright Advisory Groups (Schools and TAFEs), is the course organiser and one of P2PU co founders of the volunteer open education project.

What is Copyright 4 Educators?

‘Copyright 4 Educators’ is a free online course for educators who want to learn about copyright, open content material and licensing. It is open to all educators around the world. The course material is learnt around practical case studies faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day to day teaching and educational instruction.

The Copyright 4 Educators course is not taught, it is facilitated by the course leaders. The course is student participation focused. Students are divided into small groups who organise their online communications/discussions (via email, Google docs, Skype, tokbox etc) and jointly submits answers to the case scenarios and assignments.

The leaders basically review and mark the student group work (pass/fail) that has been posted to the blog and provide comments where they have gone wrong.  As stated above, the leaders act as facilitators rather than traditional teachers.

The first Copyright 4 Educators course was held earlier this year and was a great success.

Copyright 4 Educators – Next Cycle

The next Copyright 4 Educators course is divided into two 6 week parts comprising of different scenarios and assignments.  Each group will have 2 weeks to complete each case scenario and the last assignment.

Part 1 of the course must be completed before you can enrol into Part 2.

Course Breakdown:

Part 1 – Copyright Basics

1.       Orientation commences 17th September  

Students introduce themselves to each other and acquaint themselves with the website and ICT Tools needed to collaborate and work together.

2.       Course commences 24 September

Student Groups start working on the first group assignment.

3.       The Student Groups are required to submit three group assignments based on case scenarios:

·         Case Scenario 1- due 8 October

·         Case Scenario 2- due 22 October

·         Case Scenario 3- due 5 November

BIG BREAK XMAS and NEW YEAR BREAK

Part 2  Creative Commons and Practical Copyright Issues for Educators

1.       Commences 15 January 2011 - no orientation week.
 

2.       Assignments Due

Case Scenario 4 Due 29 January

Case Scenario 5 due 11 February

Further information on Copyright 4 Educators

There is further information on the P2PU website http://p2pu.org in the 'Copyright 4 Educators' section where you can look at the Course Outline, the Assignments and the Readings. There is also more information on how groups meet and communicate.

Please feel free to browse and/or enrol in the other courses on offer.

What do I need to do to enrol in Copyright 4 Educators?

You will need enrol at http://www.p2pu.org/node/5648/keypage.

There is a self assessment questionnaire as part of the enrolment application.

Please forward this email on to other educators such as Teachers, Librarians and Curriculum and E learning areas who may be interested in learning about copyright and copyright compliance strategies.

Thank you.

Regards,

Sylvie Saab

National Copyright Officer, National Copyright Unit

Ministerial Council on Education, Early Childhood Development

and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA)

Level 5, 35 Bridge Street, Sydney NSW 2000

t: +61 (0)2 9561 8730   f: +61 (0)2 9561 1499

e: sylvie.saab-kfi53iJGRFm7NGdpmJTKYQ@public.gmane.org