![]() Summative evaluation, including 6-month post-course evaluation of outcomes, was completed in January 2016. Lectures and panel presentations were captured on video and have been organized, along with the syllabus, reading materials, and session agendas, into modules available for viewing through the Extension Local Foods web portal – go./localfoodlectures. ![]() Formative evaluation after each session was used to improve the course throughout implementation. In year two of the project, we implemented the course, Local Food Systems for Extension Agents, from February through July 2015. The overall goal of this course was to increase the capacity of Extension educators to work with and educate growers, buyers, and community members in the development of high performing local food systems. This two year project collaboration between NC Cooperative Extension, Virginia Cooperative Extension, South Carolina Cooperative Extension, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems has been focused on designing, implementing, and evaluating a graduate course for Extension educators on local food systems. An argument for such an agreement would, I think, be an improvement in the general quality of such things.NC State Extension / CEFS Moving the NC Local Food System Toward Sustainablility: A Comprehensive Graduate course in Local Food Systems for Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists, and other Educators Summary If a university wants to maintain a high quality faculty and keep them happy and productive, I think they would be willing to negotiate some sharing arrangement. I would prefer a different interpretation, of course, in which the law would recognize that the faculty is the university and derives all function and authority from the consent and participation of the faculty. It would be difficult, at best, to contest this view, I think. So, "your mileage may vary."Ībsent a formal agreement, the university will probably claim to own all rights including the rights to reuse such things in the future whether the faculty member is employed there or not and without additional compensation. Copyright law, however, is variable around the world and to some extent, so is the relationship between the faculty and the university. ![]() IANAL, but guess that the above is a pretty general interpretation. The university provides the infrastructure and the audience. The course materials were created by yourself, but at the direction of the employer. Lectures, however, like other explicit course materials, seem to be in a different category. And since there are other alternatives for teaching a course than writing your own book, it is normally an independent activity. ), but those are normally written at the full initiative of the author(s) rather than at the direction of the university. I don't think that universities (none in my experience) get in the way of a faculty member publishing books (or software. If faculty are employees of the university then most of the IP created can be claimed by the employer, just as if you were employed by IBM in a research capacity. You might be able to come to a royalty agreement, but I doubt much beyond that. If you, the faculty, want to retain any rights, I suggest that you (as a collective group negotiating with the administration) write them into a contract.
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