Who is this course aimed at?

This course has been designed especially for librarians, ICT and support staff at universities and colleges in Myanmar. It may also be of interest to educators, students and administrative staff. This course will introduce you to why copyright is important and how freely available materials that give you explicit permission to use in different ways could be useful for your colleagues and students.

There are lots of reasons why you might be interested in participating in this course:

• Are you looking for ways to ensure that colleagues and students have access to relevant and interesting learning and teaching materials?
• Perhaps you’ve been thinking about the changes happening in higher education (such as ‘one campus, two systems’, the move toward blended approaches in response to COVID-19) and how you can better support educators in providing learning resources.
• Are you curious about what the new Myanmar copyright law means for your role and university?
• Do you want to find out how to access or create resources that have no cost but are high quality and do not violate copyright?
• Have you heard of open educational resources (OER), but are not really sure where to start or what they are?
• Are you interested in hearing about, and sharing, experiences on how to use and develop learning and teaching resources?

You do not need to already know about (or even have heard of) Creative Commons, copyright, open licensing or other topics covered in the course before you participate.