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Project-Based Learning Emphasizing Open Resources and Student Ideation: How to Raise Student Awareness of IPR?

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This article examines a project-based course that is based on the use of open resources, where students ideate and implement Open Data applications in small groups during an intensive 12-week period. The course emphasizes students’ abilities to innovate and necessitates the adoption of technologies that are typically new to the students. The course is offered at the bachelor’s level after highly structured first university courses, which means that the students face a great challenge with regards to adopting self-directed and self-regulated way of working. The main research focus of the article is on how to emphasize Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) as a learning objective. In the project education literature, IPRs are typically discussed in conjunction with courses where students collaborate with external customers. We argue that the present Open Data context together with creative group work also require a proper emphasis on IPR questions. A project agreement template and educational activities are designed and proposed to be used in student-ideated projects to properly raise student awareness of IPRs.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Ville Isomöttönen & Tommi Kärkkäinen

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A Project Agreement Template

A Project Agreement Template

Responsibility for potential mistakes rests on the users of the template. The template is open to modification. We have marked with italics obvious replaceable points. For instance, the need for and formulation of the research permission request depends on the students’ opinion on granting the permissions.

1.1 A.1 Stakeholders and Purpose of the Agreement

This student project agreement (the “Agreement”) concerns the study module TIEA207 Introductory Project in Computing and Technology (the “Study Module”). The Agreement is made between the University of Jyväskylä/Department of Mathematical Information Technology (the “University”) and the individual students who participate in the Study Module as an assigned group (“the Group”), implementing a project according to the Study Module syllabus and requirements (“Project”). This Agreement governs the rights to use and redistribute the material that is created by the Project.

The Group consists of the following students: student names here.

1.2 A.2 Definitions

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

  • “Learning Assignment” refers to a task that must be done to pass the Study Module but whose outcome is not part of the main product of the Project, which is to ideate and implement a software system (including its source code) by the Group. Written Learning Assignments consist of, but are not necessarily limited to, ideating documents and presentation materials, Project management documents, time allocation reports, and personal writing assignments like self-evaluations and learning diaries.

  • “Product” refers to that software system or service (including the source code) and the immaterial rights therein, which the Group has created in the Project.

  • “License” defines the rights to use, copy, redistribute, or modify the Product created by the Group in the Project.

  • “Deliverables” refers to both the Learning Assignments and the Product.

1.3 A.3 Rights to Deliverables

Immaterial rights of the Product belong to the students of the Group who have created the Product. Members of the Group hereby agree that they will attach the License to the Product before the Project completion, which is the date of the final Project presentations in the Study Module. The choice of the License will be documented and signed by all the members of the Group (see Appendix) and attached to the Deliverables, which as a whole must be delivered to the University for archiving purposes by the Group to finish the Study Module. If a student stops the Project prematurely, the rest of the Group can use such student’s Deliverables to continue and finish the Project and to agree on the License, after the student who has quit has been heard.

The University can use the Deliverables in teaching and education research as follows: The research is conducted by the course teacher Ville Isomöttönen and his research colleagues, for example Tommi Kärkkäinen, and concerns project-based learning and its components such as group dynamics and software process in creative work. The research results and the development of teaching activities will be made in such a way that an individual student is anonymized. The research materials will be kept in a locked storage and the results are published in education research forums.

The students themselves decide whether they want their names to be attached to the Project presentation material that is placed on the University’s website by the end of the Study Module.

This Agreement does not contain any obligations for compensation.

1.4 A.4 Signatures

Signatures of each student and Dean of the Faculty here.

1.5 Agreement Appendix

Example 1: Group places the Product under MIT-license.

Example 2: All members of the Group can use the Product as they wish.

(students’ signatures)

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Isomöttönen, V., Kärkkäinen, T. (2016). Project-Based Learning Emphasizing Open Resources and Student Ideation: How to Raise Student Awareness of IPR?. In: Zvacek, S., Restivo, M., Uhomoibhi, J., Helfert, M. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 583. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29585-5_17

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