'Officials proposed a policy this fall that would give the university system the copyright of any instructional materials, including syllabi.'
“Officials proposed a policy this fall that would give the university system the copyright of any instructional materials, including syllabi.”Universities of Wisconsin System are pushing back against a proposed copyright policy they believe would cheapen the relationship between students and their professors and potentially allow artificial intelligence bots to replace faculty members.
For decades, professors have designed and delivered their courses under a policy that says the 25-campus UW System “does not assert a property interest in materials which result from the author’s pursuit of traditional teaching, research, and scholarly activities.” That includes course materials and syllabi, which faculty members own.
It’s an arrangement faculty say is working, not only for themselves but for their students. But now the university is looking to upend that system, they say. Officials proposed a policy this fall that would give the university system the copyright of any instructional materials, including syllabi.
That letter from the general counsel was in response to an open letter more than 10 faculty union leaders sent to the UW System administration Nov. 1 opposing the policy change, characterizing the “elimination of faculty ownership of their syllabi, course materials, and other products of their labor” as “a drastic and deeply problematic redefinition of the employment contract between faculty and UW.
The policy proposal is not yet final and is open for public comment through Dec. 13. It’s unclear what will happen after that, as the UW System did not respond toMany teachers at community college level could be replaced by bots. Pandemic lockdown forced the conversion of courses to online format. Now lazy teachers increasingly use pre-recorded off the shelf video lectures, not live zoom classes, to review the assigned reading material.
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