eLearning > IPR regulation
Technology enhanced learning or elearning is considered to hold the potential for transforming educational practice.
In turn, the growing sophistication of digital and reprographic technologies has greatly enhanced the opportunity, pace, scale and affordability by which works may be copied, shared, or disseminated. This has implication for owners of those works in terms of how their associated rights, reputation and rewards are recognised and assured by society.
This is the field of Intellectual Property (IP) regulation.
This section provides an initial account of IP in relation to elearning, particularly in the cross-national setting. It attempts to provide a practical focus to such issues by considering the interplay between relevant legal and regulatory frameworks, institutional practices and elearning designers’ concerns as captured through the eChina-UK programme.
This is not a comprehensive account of IP regimes in elearning cross-nationally. Rather, it seeks to offer a guide into issues which may confront elearning design teams embarking upon cross-national collaborations of this kind.