Who Owns On-Line Courses? Colleges and Professors Start To Sort It Out.

Carnevale, Dan; Young, Jeffrey R.

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ERIC Number: EJ599505

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Publication Date: 1999

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Who Owns On-Line Courses? Colleges and Professors Start To Sort It Out.

Carnevale, Dan; Young, Jeffrey R.

Chronicle of Higher Education, v46 n17 pA45-A46 Dec 17, 1999

Examines ownership issues relating to on-line Web-based distance education college courses, including shared ownership by institutions and professors, approaches copied from the entertainment industry, professors as "free agents," and additional compensation for course development. This issue is central to faculty contract negotiations. (DB)

Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Course Content, Distance Education, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education, Legal Problems, Ownership, Telecourses, World Wide Web

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