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Jonathan Davis

I'm a recent graduate from Oxford Brookes University. I completed my post graduate degree in Publishing and submitted my dissertation one week ago today!

My research topic was Academic Publishing and the application of intellectual property rights in the Digital World. After a work experience placement at Bloomsbury Academic, I gained a real appreciation of how useful alternative licensing formats can be (specifically Creative Commons). This was the seconday topic of my thesis. I'm now currently working at a further education college in Oxford as a Staff Development Administrator in charge of co-ordinating internal and external training sessions for lecturers and support staff. I'm eager to begin my career in publishing and get involved, first hand, in the rapid changes that are being experienced today through new business models and alternative licensing.

I caught the bug of wanting to understand more about copyright after reading Larry Lessig's Remix and am excited to learn more about the impact that an idea like a commons can have on the knowledge economy and teaching. I think p2pu is a wonderful way of doing so. 

punchagan

Hello. I'm an engineering graduate from India. I'm presently working on a project for the Adoption of Free and Open Source software in Science and Engineering Education in India. 

I have been interested in Copyrights (and Copyleft) since I was introduced to the GNU Philosophy, about 3 years ago, by a dear friend of mine. Ever since, I have been trying to learn and explore the concepts of Copyleft. Also, my present work is generating education content/material for the project I mentioned above. I feel this course will help with that too. 

The whole idea of P2PU really excites me. Hope I can contribute my best to making this session of the course a pleasure --- wonderful learning experience.

Vanessa Tuckfield

I am a Copyright Officer at the Canberra Institute of Technology, in Australia, my role is to manage copyright at the Institute, as well as assist teachers and lecturers to understand their copyright responsibilities. I also teach film, media and music students copyright and business subjects.

I have been watching the open content movement since its inception, and keen to get involved, I think it has its place in education, and anything that helps me to help teachers further is exciting. I am keen to understand the wider world context.

karienbez

My full name is Karien Bezuidenhout and I am South African, based in Cape Town. I am with the Shuttleworth Foundation , working towards an open knowledge society and access to education and technology in the broadest sense. I believe educational resources should be freely available to those who need them and are made stronger through collaboration. To this end we use open licences for content produced by our organisation and through our projects. I also do advocacy work around the use of open licences in education and development, open educational resources, open access publishing and legal reform toward more balanced copyright regimes.

We have learnt many hard lessons about this over the years and I look forward to sharing and learning from others on this course. 

I am also very interested in and excited about the P2PU as an alternative education idea and wanted to try it for myself.

Molly Kleinman

I am a librarian at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Until recently, I was the Library's copyright specialist. In that position,where I organized copyright education and outreach for faculty, staff, and students, worked on author advocacy initiatives, and provided copyright support for the Library’s digital publishing initiatives. I am a member of the 2007-2009 team of Copyright Scholars for ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network, and I coordinated the University of Michigan’s first Open Access Week in March. Currently I work with Dean of Libraries Paul Courant on a range of administrative projects and activities, including daily operations, research and writing, financial and personnel management, and maintaining connections to the academic and information communities beyond the University.

I remain very interested in copyright and scholarly publishing issues, and continue to lecture on those subjects as a part of the ACRL Scholarly Communications 101 Roadshow. I'm also very interested in open education and new models of teaching and learning, so this course is doubly interesting to me.

Meaghan Pykerman

In 2008 I completed my BSc in Mathematical Sciences while attending university in Canada. I am currently completing a diploma in Digital Media, specializing in Web and Rich Media Development. Upon graduation I aspire to combine these credentials to pursue a career focused on developing educational media. Eventually I would like to pursue graduate studies pertaining to distance education, accessibility, and educational technology.

I am interested in new media, open source education and software, accessibility, information architecture, and how copyright affects these disciplines. P2PU is a brilliant learning initiative that I am excited to be a part of. I look forward to collaborating with all of you.

Tom Caswell

I am an Open Education consultant and founder of Dynamic E-Learning Strategies, Inc. I have consulted for the OpenCourseWare Consortium at MIT, the Open University of Catalonia, and (oddly enough) Microsoft. At the moment I am doing a bit of work with ccLearn's Student Journalism 2.0 project, so I am thinking about how to help young people understand how to make informed licensing decisions when sharing their creative works. I am also a PhD student in Instructional Technology at Utah State University. Other interests include mobile learning, instructional game design, and micro learning using Twitter. Related professional experiences include High School teaching, software project management, web application testing, technical writing, and community-driven projects in internationalization and accessibility.

I am looking forward to learning many things here, and I am excited to be part of p2pu!

Andrew Mackenzie

I became interested in copyright, IP and Creative Commons through teaching digital media at Coventry University in the UK.

Previously I have been a researcher and project communications manager for EU funded IT projects, taught information design and been involved with internet radio. 

In all these cases the legal framework for intellectual property shapes innovation and development as much as technical or design challenges.

I've used blogs in teaching to support lectures and seminars ('blended learning'). It will be interesting to see how a purely online course works out.

My keywords would be design, creative industries, policy and learning.

Debbie Evans

I am a primary-trained teacher and the Centre Director of Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre in Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. The centre is a collaborative agreement between MU and NSW Department of Education. My centre develops, implements and evaluates innovative ways of enhancing learning using dynamic and emerging technologies with students from K-12 in the public education system. We develop projects for teachers and their students to participate in and we are very mindful of the responsibility we have to ensure our projects and programs inform participants of the importance of copyright and the processes for sharing their work. I am very much looking forward to this course which I am sure will better inform me of these responsibilities.

Anne

I am a K-12 teacher in the US.  My specialization requires me to do lots of teacher training as well as parent information sessions.  I am working to develop online workshops for teachers and want to make sure I'm legal when I share important resources with workshop participants both online and face-to-face.

cawest - Neels van der Westhuize

I am currently involved with the Siyavula project run by the Shuttleworth Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa. (Same organisation that a fellow stundent on this course, Karien Bezuidenhout is with). This project involved making free and open educational resources available to South African educators online on the Connexions platform and building communities of practice around the sharing, adapting and exchanging of these  resources.

In addition to the pursuit of open and free educational resources through the Siyavula project, the entire realm of content creation, production and dissemination is of particular interest to me.Cutting across music, feature film, advertising, entertainment, printed content; the juxtaposition of open and proprietaty content; the existence or lack of business models; financing and content, especially feature filmed content and the portfolio theory applied to baskets of films grouped together; the interaction and porting between different platform such console, mobile, PC, TV etc. My true passion is for the creation of educational content and dream of assembling the resources contained in a Madison Avenue advertising agency and Hollywood Film Studio and applying them to the creation of high production value educational material distributed widely.

Kathleen Ludewig

I am a researcher for the Open.Michigan open educational resources team at the University of Michigan (U-M's)  in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. I've been with that team for a year and half. Most of my work is with the dScribe process - a student centric OER publication model whereby students gather, review., clear, and vet educational materials to ensure that are indeed open. I have been a dScribe mentor for over a year and hold regular training sessions on copyright and OER for the dScribes. This past summer, I spent eight weeks in Ghana and three weeks in South Africa working with U-M's four partner universities and partner NGO on OER program development in the health sciences. I am also a third-year dual masters degree student in Information and Public Policy at U-M.

I look forward to continuing my research about the implications and challenges of sharing OER across borders esp. in the area of "copyrightability" where what is protectable by copyright differs across borders. I know a bit about U.S. and Ghana's copyright regime but am curious to learn more. I am particularly interested in learning more about South African copyright law.