O4.3.5

=Teaching staff are provided with resources (including training, guidelines and examples) on intellectual property law and licences.=

Evidence
E-learning results in digital content that can be re-used, or can be designed to be re-used (Bates 2007). This digital content has value and therefore needs to be managed. It is this value that compensates institutions for the investment in e-learning. Institutions should be considering how best to create digital content so it can be re-used. Also, who owns the copyright for the content once it has been created? There are a range of possibilities from making content freely available to charging for everything. Bates (2007) recommends that an explicit plan be developed for how the institution proposes content management.

Resources
Milne & White (2005) collect together twenty-three sets of e-learning quality guidelines from an array of geographical regions. Such guidelines, or something like them, should be part of the support offered to staff by their organizations. Staff need guidelines, and examples of good practice.