Who Owns On-Line Courses? Colleges and Professors Start to Sort It Out

By DAN CARNEVALE and JEFFREY R. YOUNG

The varying policies, on control and royalties, are increasingly the subject of contract talks

When Randy Accetta developed a televised writing course six years ago for Pima Community College, he didn't sweat the details of who owned the course. Now he thinks he should have: Although Mr. Accetta no longer teaches the writing course, the college still uses the videotapes year after year. Another instructor each semester is the "teacher of record," who deals

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Who Owns On-Line Courses? Colleges and Professors Start to Sort It Out - December 17, 1999
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