MOOCs a threat to intellectual property – Professors

By Peter Schmidt. Colleges broadly threaten faculty members' copyrights and academic freedom in claiming ownership of the massive open online courses – MOOCs – their instructors have developed, Cary Nelson, a former president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), argued at the group's annual conference last week.
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In the meeting's opening address, Nelson characterised the debate at colleges over who owns the rights to faculty members' MOOCs as part of a broader battle over intellectual property that's being waged on America's campuses. Read more...