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Facing up to Facebook: A Guide for FE and HE
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
In this guide, you’ll find summaries of the key legal considerations of using Facebook in an FE and HE context.
Personal Data and Consent Management: A Briefing Paper
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
Sharing personal data across and between institutions and service providers can be complex and will require compliance with legal responsibilities. This briefing paper is designed to help institutions understand the implications of the creation and dissemination of personal data, their roles and responsibilities regarding consent management, arising issues associated with anonymised data as well as the possible role of risk management decisions.
Recording Lectures and the Law Top Tips
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
With the increasing use of open educational resources and the use of technology to provide online learning, more and more institutions are recording lectures to be broadcast or reused in a variety of ways. This comes with a range of potential legal implications, of which the institution should be aware. To help give you confidence in your compliance with the law, these top tips serve as a quick reminder of the main areas to be addressed and sources of help available when recording lectures.
Release of Course Materials Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
This guidance is intended for staff in UK colleges and universities who may be asked to provide course materials in response to a freedom of information request. It looks at recent decisions by both the ICO and the Information Tribunal and offers some points to consider in applying exemptions and the public interest test.
Security, Mobile Devices and Data Protection
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
This guidance is intended for those in colleges and universities with responsibility for data protection, and for those involved in the introduction and use of mobile devices. The guidance provides up to date information on the law and the compliance requirements as it applies to the protection of personal data when using mobile devices in a college and university setting.
Bequeathed Research Papers and the Law
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/ID/2412/Bequeathed-Research-Papers-and-the-Law.aspx
This guidance is intended for university and college archives dealing with bequests of research papers. It provides information on the legal issues which need to be considered, in particular, where an institution intends to digitise and add documents to an institutional repository.
Mobile Technologies and the Law Top Tips
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/ID/2430/Mobile-Technologies-and-the-Law-Top-Tips.aspx
Copyright and accessibility law need to be considered when using mobile devices. To help give you confidence in your compliance with the law, here are top tips for getting to grips with copyright and accessibility when using mobile devices.
Moral Rights and OERs - Essentials
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/ID/2442/Moral-Rights-and-OERs--Essentials.aspx
The purpose of this Moral Rights and OERs Essentials paper is to provide publishers of open educational resources (OERs) with a summary of when and how moral rights impact on the creation of OERs. For a more in depth guide to moral rights in OER including practical examples refer to JISC Legal’s paper Moral Rights and OERs – Overview.
Moral Rights and OERs - Overview
Added: Tue 08 May 2012
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/ID/2443/Moral-Rights-and-OERs--Overview.aspx
The purpose of this Moral Rights and OERs Overview paper is to guide publishers of open educational resources (OERs) on the meaning of moral rights, when and how these impact on the creation of OERs and measures which may be taken in order to avoid infringement of moral rights.
Law, ICT and Sixth Form Colleges
Added: Tue 13 Mar 2012 updated: Mon 19 Mar 2012
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/ID/2348/Law-ICT-and-Sixth-Form-Colleges-200212.aspx
This guidance is intended for staff in sixth form colleges and aims to provide a helpful overview to key legal issues relevant to sixth form colleges in the development and use of ICT.