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Teaching Open Scholarship in the 21st Century - Learning Objectives #58

Open opendigitalsafety opened 6 years ago

opendigitalsafety commented 6 years ago

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rylee001 commented 6 years ago

Hello, this is Regina from GWSS. I am working on the assumption that this project focuses specfically on the USA.

  1. Outline a history of copyright through individual ownership and corporate profit. Clearly outline who benefits from copyright, and how that has shaped its historical formation in the USA.

  2. Clarify current copyright and fair use tenets in the USA. If possible, include comparison with other models (e.g. fair use (USA) vs. fair dealing (Canada)), and their benefits and drawbacks in academic contexts.

  3. Create comparative model differentiating open scholarship from traditional models. Reference problems in distribution (e.g. Elsevier; USA v. Swartz) and the ways STEM disciplines have partially solved (e.g. PubMed), the purposes of open scholarship in public fora, and the internet as increasingly primary method of intellectual spread.

  4. Discuss differential risk (asymmetrical distribution of security issues) based on preexisting conditions in online interaction. Consider how the concept of the default user relies on various forms of privilege to escape physical, professional, emotional harm, which directly affects ability of researchers to publish or pursue their work, even as their institutions push them to spread their scholarship online.

4a. A submodule to 4 might be to speculate with researchers on changes to publishing models and tenure and promotion models which account for differential risk, as well as the large body of scholarship related to demonstrating the existence of this differential risk in current models.

opendigitalsafety commented 6 years ago

This is such great feedback, @rylee001

(This is Elliott.) I'm not speaking for the whole group here, but I don't think this part of the GitBook would have to focus on the UW.

Because we want to base everything on stories, if a faculty member, researcher, or grad student from another country has an interesting story to share about teaching open, then that would be good, too. In fact, such a story could provide an essential counterpoint to teaching approaches in the US.