New OFE Social Media Experience

The Office of Faculty Enhancement (OFE) has created a new facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/OFEFaculty) and a new approach to connecting with faculty at UNF. Follow the discussion by Liking the page, finding a post that connects with you, and comment. Feel free to share the posts with your friends as well.

The old OFE account will be discontinued, so you will need to connect with the new page to continue to receive notices through facebook.

We will still keep up with our OFE Newsletter blog, thecurrent, for news, announcements, and interesting teaching and learning ideas. We also maintain a twitter page (@OFEUNF) that posts tips and ideas for teaching and learning you might find interesting, mostly from conferences, symposia, and the like.

So what are you waiting for? Join the conversation online.

Regards,
OFE Staff

Frankly Fridays - Who owns course content?

Frank Conversation about
Faculty Issues

Topic: Who owns course content? Intellectual Property in the Digital Age

Friday, April 4^th, 9:30-10:30 AM, Osprey Commons Faculty Lounge (Building 16, Room 4201)

Let us know you will be there: ofe@unf.edu

When a faculty member and a university enter into a relationship (based on a faculty hire), both parties typically intended for the relationship to be one with longevity. Both parties benefit from each others' success. Recent technological innovations, like Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and social media, have challenged the nature of the relationships between faculty and universities and between faculty and students. Recent conversations around copyright of MOOCs has started a broader conversation about how the intellectual contributions of faculty are attributed and protected.  As Cary Nelson, a former president of the American Association of University Professors, explains, this "is not just the ability of faculty members to profit from their own writings or inventions, but the future of their profession." As faculty and universities engage in conversations about intellectual property, students have inadvertently joined the discussion. In a recent debacle over the posting of a course lecture through social media, faculty members and the university joined sides to combat students' posting of a lecture that was not intended to be distributed outside of the classroom. Digital advantages and innovations are providing some unique challenges to faculty and universities across the nation. UNF has a couple of policies that address copyright and intellectual property rights. 

Copyright policy at UNF
Intellectual Property Guidelines at UNF

Come discuss how these issues impact UNF and faculty across the nation.

We will meet in the Faculty Lounge on the 4^th floor of the Osprey Commons.

OFE will provide the coffee and pastries.

Let us know you will be there: ofe@unf.edu

Me.edu - Personalizing Education

Given that institutions of Higher Education are challenged by a number of forces, many institutions have turned to data mining on various sources of student data to maximize success and efficiency. A recent Chronicle blog post highlights this movement toward vast data mining and the personalizing of the educational experience.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/me-edu-debating-the-coming-personalization-of-higher-ed

I am interested in hearing your thoughts about the article. What can be gained from collecting vast amounts of data from students (about student performance and otherwise, say from facebook or pinterest) and using that data to personalize the experiences for students.

Privicy Settings on Facebook

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education provides tips on how to set deeply embedded privacy settings in Facebook so that you can control who sees what you write, how photos of you are displayed, and how people find you on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account that you use for both personal and professional interactions, I encourage you to read this article.


http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/six-steps-for-checking-your-facebook-privacy/30402?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en