My policy response to the problematization process.
Below I have included a policy response to the problems I faced by developing a policy model which can be built into the design of new media systems such as Weblogs and forums in creative arts post graduate learning environments.
1. How does a tertiary institution manage any ethical disputes which may arise from when a research student uploads audio visual materials into a student ePortfolio?
- The use of Web 2.0 integration tools and third party websites allows the user to manage the ethical management issues themselves.
- Ethical standards control then becomes an issue for the research student and the third party Web service provider and not the responsibility of the tertiary institution.
- This is achievable through the third party Web-services terms of service agreement which often states the ethical restrictions and relationship between the people using their services at the point of sign-up.
2. Who owns the intellectual property and the copyright of those audio visual materials integrated within a student ePortfolio?
- The student should always have full control of the intellectual property and their creative work at all times. The student created the work and designed the work.
- However, the tertiary institute should retain the right to disallow access to uploaded audio visual materials if the materials contravene local and state laws such as decency, pornography or the violation of international copyright laws.
- A Web 2.0 model which uses third parties Web-services can allow the student to control their own intellectual property by signing a terms and services agreement with some providers.
- The appropriate service needs to be chosen as some Web 2.0 sites and third party providers assume control of intellectual property when it is uploaded.
3. Who owns the ePortfolio? Is it the student or the institution?
- The student always owns ePortfolio. To protect their intellectual property the Web 2.0 and third party services model allows for the audio visual materials to be protected by the terms and service agreement of the service provider. This is because the audio visual materials are stored on the third party services network of computers and not the learning institutions.
4. Who is responsible for the costs of the storage of the ePortfolio and artefacts?
- It is the responsibility of the tertiary institution to provide the cost of the ePortfolio.
- However if a research student does elect to use a Web 2.0 integration model the research student would not normally be charged for hosting or the downloading of material from their external provider to their tertiary institutions ePortfolio system.
- This means the research student dose not have to pay for the hosting of their audio visual data but can still have the option of integrating those materials into tertiary institutes Web 2.0 based ePortfolio system.
- Both these options are then able to be integrated into a Web 2.0 and third party provider services in a tertiary institutes ePortfolio system through the use of a small piece of software, know as a plug-in. I have suggested an approach to achieving this in the methodology section of this exegesis. This allows the research student to have full control of who has access to their audio-visual files when they are integrated via the use of Web 2.0 websites and third party services.
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