John Casey discusses managing intellectual property rights in networked e-learning environments/digital repositories .Delivered at the SLIC FE Conference in Edinburgh on 28 Nov 2008.

1. After The Deluge: Navigating IPR Policy and DRM in Learning Object Repositories Map Image from the University of Texas at Austin http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/ Distributed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland Authors John Casey, Jackie Proven, David Dripps

2. A ‘data deluge’ is hitting our educational institutions. We need to learn how to manage digital materials, understand what is important, what needs to be kept, managed and preserved. Individuals and institutions have become de-facto digital publishers – enjoying both the legal rights and the responsibilities this brings. E-learning is linked to fundamental changes in teaching and learning at national, institutional and professional levels. Discussion of the political and economic aspects of this are largely absent from current e-learning discourse. IPR raises these ‘process change’ related issues to the surface - forcefully. Background

7. Attitudes to IPR in Education 1 Picture By Stavros Markopoulos @ http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=447602329&size=o

8. Attitudes to IPR in Education 2 Picture By moose.boy / Moose G. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=47422069&size=m

12. E-learning as Process Change Future Practice (sustainable) Current Practice (subsistence) Really About Process Change - think of IPR as an enabler