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Projects: Legal Issues in Flexible Learning
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The 2002 Legal Issues in Flexible Learning project provided
information about important legal issues relating to VET professionals
working in flexible learning.
Information via workshops, brochures and the website was
distributed across the Australian VET sector including:
- Intellectual property including copyright law,
- Content regulation,
- Privacy,
- Freedom of Information,
- Telecommunication.
A lawyer was online during the latter half of 2002 to answer
questions from people in the VET sector about legal issues
in flexible learning.
This project commenced in 2000 as the Legal and Regulatory
Framework. The project commissioned a comprehensive research
paper to identify the important legal and regulatory issues
for flexible learning in the national VET system.
Go to the Legal Issues in Flexible Learning
project website for further information. Topics on the
site cover intellectual property and copyright, privacy, content
regulation, e-commerce and freedom of information.
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An
Information Kit for flexible learning professionals
The Information Kit includes a resource book and four booklets
with scenarios relating to legal issues experienced by different
VET professionals. You can read a general response from a
lawyer at the end of each scenario.
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The Legal Issues in Flexible Learning project produced a
series
of scenarios relating to various issues including: Intellectual
property, Copyright, Privacy, e-Commerce, Freedom of information,
Content regulation and Online contracts for a range of key
stakeholders including Practitioners, Librarians, Developers,
Managers.
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"The Legal Issues in Flexible Learning
presentation was both relevant and provocative. Relevant
in the sense that each appropriate stakeholder was identified
and scenarios discussed and provocative in the sense
that it focussed attention on examples relating to current
practice and how we as educators and students must
comply with the law relating to copyright and intellectual
property.
Questions that arise from staff and students relating
to the preservation of intellectual property are becoming
more complex. Students in particular, in the areas of
design, photography and music are recognising that with
the creation of an original work, they too have a vested
interest in safeguarding their intellectual property.
The information pack and website are excellent starting
points for staff and students who are designing online."
Lynn Fletcher, Canberra Institute of Technology
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"At Elearn.WA, we found the Australian
Flexible Learning Framework presentation on the legal
implications of flexible learning both timely and informative.
We particularly appreciated an approach that examined
such a complex topic from different perspectives and
impacting on multiple job roles within a training organisation.
Since the presentation, we have located further resources
from the web site, and posted our specific questions
to the discussion board that is maintained as part of
the project."
Frank Bate, Director, Development, Elearn.WA
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Last updated:
January 31, 2006
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