Designing a Copyright Learning Community to Meet the Needs of Online Faculty

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Session Description

As faculty members continue to move to open educational practices (OEP) with the integration of open educational resources (OER) and other digital content into their online and blended classrooms to ensure a high-quality and transformative educational experience for students, it is important to have a foundation in copyright and intellectual property issues. To prepare faculty for the changing educational landscape, a community college library offered a 12-week copyright and intellectual property learning community. This professional development opportunity was designed with an understanding of the demands on faculty over the course of a semester and utilized a mixture of self-paced learning, online discussions, and synchronous opportunities to connect all members in the discussion. This presentation will discuss the design of this program, the digital tools used to deliver the content, and overall reflections of the learning community with attention to the results from pre- and post-learning community surveys of participants. Attendees of this presentation will have an understanding of how to offer a similar copyright and intellectual property learning community.

Presenter(s)

Michael LaMagna
Delaware County Community College
Media, Pennsylvania, USA

Dr. Michael LaMagna is the Information Literacy Program & Library Services Coordinator and Professor of Library Services at Delaware County Community College in Pennsylvania and previously served as the Coordinator of Electronic Resources at a small liberal arts college. Dr. LaMagna’s research centers on the adoption and advocacy of open educational resources and affordable course content, eBooks acquisition and usage, synchronous and asynchronous learning, copyright education, digital badges and micro-credentials, and academic libraries in general. His research has appeared in publications such as Collection & Curation, Internet Reference Services Quarterly, the Journal of Access Services, the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship and Computers and Libraries. Dr. LaMagna received his Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University. His dissertation examined how community college English faculty members teach information literacy in asynchronous online courses. Dr. LaMagna also received his M.L.S. from St. John’s University, M.A. in History from Villanova University, and B.A. in History from Susquehanna University.

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