What you say is important and different schools have different policies. My schools for example does not claim copyright ownership on faculty content (unless negotiated otherwise).
I am not convinced that the solution to the problem is a technical one. Massimo On Oct 20, 7:50 pm, David Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > My mother's a teacher, who has "challenges" with the ownership of the > content she creates. Legally, she owns the content, and should control > where and how it's made available; however (as I understand it), current > systems act as though the school owns all content *and* are structured such > that copies of the content need to be made in order for it to be used in > separate areas within the application. The system used at her school > essentially assumes that the ownership of the content transfers to the > school at the moment the content is entered into the system, which is > legally doubtful at best. > > I'd regard it as at least HIGHLY desirable that content created by users of > the system can be encrypted using a public/private key pair by the user, who > holds a private key that is (optionally?) not stored on the system itself. > The content creator should then control who has access to the content, and > for how long, and control should be granted only after the private key is > entered; it should NOT be accessible to anybody at the whim of the system > manager (or school principal). Following that logic further, the mechanisms > for viewing the content should presumably make it difficult to copy/paste > the content; maybe locked-down PDFs is a sensible format, but I'm not > sure... > > At the very least, if a system manager is going to make user-generated > content broadly accessible, then there should be a warning displayed along > the lines of "You're about to make this content available to people not > explicitly approved by the content creator. Please check the legal > implications of doing this before proceeding". > > Not sure if my mother's situation is unusual or not, but it's definitely an > issue in jurisdictions where content creators own the content they create, > which I assume would be the norm. > > Regards > > Dave M. > > On 30 September 2010 04:22, Jose Hurtado <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That is main reason i am learning web2py :) > > > Features...hmmm... i see 3 points of view: > > > 1. Student. what i want as a student? > > - Autonomy, i should use it whenever i want, without schedules > > constrains. > > - A nice experience, interactivity, keep me engaged. > > - Use of advanced technologies to improve my learning. > > - Progressivity, i dont want to learn step to step, not walls to > > jump. > > - Keep track of my progress. > > > 2. Teacher. > > - Customization of a course, included contents > > - Improvement of contents, each time i teach a lesson i get feed back > > from the students to improve it > > - Changing the course when it is in progress > > - A good set of contents to include on my course > > - A good set of quizzes to test/examine the level of my students > > - A good set of activities/exercises for my students so they can > > train and practice as much as the want > > - Control. A good report system. i want to know what happens, how is > > doing each student... > > > 3. Content creator > > - Tools to easy create content. > > - All type of contents: text, audio, video, diagrams (interactive), > > quizzes, exercices and activities. > > - Blocks of contents, i may not want to create a full course(or > > book), but i may create a very nice "lesson" that could be used on > > courses. > > > there is another point of view: > > > 4. Organization, the University/company/organization. > > - Control of teachers/students/courses/departments > > - Calendar and schedules. > > - Economic Management > > - Reporting > > > A quick look :) > > > On 28 sep, 16:01, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Once again... who here is interested in a web2py based Learning > > > Management system? > > > What features would you like to see? > > > > Massimo > >
