Lecture capture: risky business or evolving open practice

Jane Secker, LSE and Chris Morrison, University of Kent

@jsecker @cbowiemorrison @UKCopyrightLitALT-C Conference 6-9th September 2016

Risky Business?

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

Risky Business?

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

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

The issues

• Lecture recording & IPR (intellectual property rights) policies

• Consent from individuals• Dealing with 3rd party

copyright• Wider IPR issues

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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=33)

Headline findings

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

approach to lecture recording? (n=33)

Opt in vs opt out

Individual consent

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=33)

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 lec-turer recordings to identify content that is not permitted under

UK copyright law or university licences? (n=33)

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=33)

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 categoriesAppetite for risk

Support and guidance

Institutional control

Open practice

Comprehensiveness of approach

Emerging patterns

Interim findings

• Variety of approaches• No clear models as yet• Does good policy = good

practice?• Support needs to be clear,

helpful and practical• Institutional culture of risk

could be explored further• Open practice not

widespread

Next steps• Full report to be published soon!

• Talk to Jisc / ALT about improving the current guidance

• Need for flexible approach to help devise policies that support institutional culture and open practice

• IPRs need to be considered as part of wider policies and academics need to be on board

Further reading• 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

• 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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