Jane Secker, LSEChris Morrison, University of Kent

@jsecker @cbowiemorrison @UKCopyrightLit

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Heron User Group Meeting, Kings College London 14th December 2016

Lecture capture: risky business or evolving

open practice

The research team

Chris Morrison, University of Kent@cbowiemorrison

Dr Jane Secker, LSE@jsecker

Juliana Rios-Amaya,LSE

Report available online

Risky Business?

Risky Business, © 1983 Geffen Pictures, Dir. Paul Brickman

Risky Business?

S.32 Illustration for Instruction

Risky Business, © 1983 Geffen Pictures, Dir. Paul Brickman

Licence vs Exception

What?Why? How?

When? Survey devised by: Jane Secker, Chris Morrison, Philippa Hatch, Alex Fenlon, Charlotte Booth, Carol Summerside, Helen Cargill,

Phil Ansell and Scott McGowan

Lecture recording & IPR

(intellectual property rights)

policies

Consent from individuals

Dealing with 3rd party copyright

Wider lecture recording issues

The issues

Yes - my institution has a written policy

29%

No - my institution has no pol-icy or documented approach

to lecture capture31%

Sort of - my institution has a documented ap-proach to lecture cap-ture but it is not ex-pressed as a single

formal policy40%

Does your institution have a policy covering IPR issues with lec-ture recording? (N=35)

Headline findings

Academic consultationFigure 2: Did your institution consult widely with the academic community before introducing a policy or

approach to lecture recording? (n=35)

Opt-in vs opt-out

(n=35)

Individual consent

(n=35)

Responsibility for 3rd party copyright

The lecturer would be expected to observe copyright and can apply to the Copyright Clearance Service for advice.

School Administration Staff

Other

E-learning / VLE team

Compliance Officer / Team

Lecturer/presenter

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

3%

9%

18%

21%

94%

Figure 8. Who takes responsibility for rights issues with content included in lectures? (n=35)

Dealing with third party copyright issues

They must not upload recordings including third party content to the VLE or similar

Other

They should rely on openly licensed / Creative Commons materials only

They must edit problematic content themselves

They must always seek permissions for third party content

They can rely on fair dealing exceptions

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

7%

20%

30%

50%

50%

53%

Figure 10. What advice do you give to lecturers using third party content? (n=30)

Responsibility for third party copyright

Yes3%

No83%

No Answer14%

Figure 11. Do you, or any one else in the university, review lecturer recordings to identify content that is not permitted under UK copyright law or university

licences? (n=35)

Making staff aware of copyright issues

They are not made aware of these issues

It’s in the staff terms and conditions

They are provided with advice as part of staff induction / training

Information is on the website

They are provided with advice as part of agreeing to use the lecture recording system

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

9%

18%

33%

73%

73%

Figure 9. How are staff made aware of copyright issues that might arise in recording lectures? (n=35)

Wider IPR issues

Automated processes easier, but awareness of IPR is

low (IPAN, 2016)

Variety of attitudes to IPR/risk – what’s

acceptable?

Different issues for some disciplines

Is lecture capture different to other

VLE use?

Lecture capture is too new to be

considered in some policies

General academic resistance to lecture

capture

Policy analysis

Examined 11 institutions

Compared with Jisc guidance as a

benchmark

Looked only at what was

provided (some policies are

behind registration walls)

Created 5 higher level and 12 lower level categories

High level categories

Appetite for risk Support and guidance

Institutional control Open practice

Comprehensiveness of approach

Emerging patterns

Variety of approaches

No clear models as yet

Policy is not the same as practice

Jisc guidance not widely adopted

Support should be clear, helpful and practical

Institutional culture of risk difficult to determine

Open practice not widespread

Findings

Recommendations

Minimum standards in lecture recording policy should be adopted

Staff and students should be involved in policy development

Responsibility for managing risk should be clarified

Copyright advice and guidance should be provided

Institutional policies should refer to ‘open educational resources’

Further Research

Relationship between institutional approach

to risk and lecture recording

Understand optimum involvement of academic staff

Explore impact of copyright guidance and

assess levels of copyright literacy

Identify ways to engage with ‘open’ culture

alongside concerns over academic identities

Further reading• Elmes, John. (2016) Universities ‘uncertain’ about lecture-capture

copyright. Times Higher Education Supplement. 8 December 2016. Available at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-uncertain-about-lecture-capture-copyright

• IPAN (2016) University IP Policy: Perception and practice. Available at: http://www.ipaware.net/sites/default/files/IPAN_NUS_University_IP_Policy_v11-2r_online-mainr_28jul16.pdf

• Jisc (2015) Recording lectures: legal considerations. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/recording-lectures-legal-considerations

• Rios-Amaya, Juliana, Secker, Jane and Morrison, Chris (2016) Lecture recording in higher education: risky business or evolving open practice. LSE / University of Kent, London, UK. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68275/

• Secker, J. & Morrison, C. 2016. Copyright and E-learning: a guide for practitioners, Second Edition. Facet Publishing, London. pp. 103-105.

• Secker, J., Bond, S., & Grussendorf, S. 2010. Lecture Capture: rich and strange, or a dark art? LSE Research Online. Available: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29184

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