The goal at UNT is to work fairly with faculty who are willing to dedicate their expertise and energy to the design and delivery of their courses through distributed learning. The resources under this category provide access to the officially adopted intellectual property policy, a downloadable worksheet to help faculty and department chairs determine what policy category their courses might fall under, downloadable agreement templates to be used to create a legal document for the appropriate category before production begins and a learning objects addendum to enable the reusability of smaller portions of a course with the permission and citation of the author. 

• Intellectual Property Policy (view online)
• Intellectual Property Worksheet to determine the category of a course (view online) (word document)
  

• License Agreement Category I (view online) (word document)
• License Agreement Category II (view online) (word document)
• License Agreement Category III (view online) (word document)
• License Agreement Category IV (view online) (word document)

Historically, intellectual property agreements for online instructional material have centered around courses. Since 1998, CLEAR has collaborated with instructors to create many high-quality learning objects, but until 2007, there wasn't a formal mechanism for faculty to re-use or share this wealth of instructional materials. The Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign collaborated with the Office of General Counsel to create an addendum to the intellectual property agreements used for courses which, after completion by the author, grants an educational license to UNT and provides the possibility of a commercial license for external use. CLEAR has developed procedures for identifying reusable learning objects as they are proposed during the production of a course and for working with instructors who have created learning objects in the past to make them re-usable. Completed learning object addendums will be uploaded to the Program/Course Approval Database and associated with the course for which the learning object was originally created.

• Learning Object Addendum with Transmittal Form (view online) (word document)
• CLEAR Procedures for Identifying Reusable Learning Objects (view online) (word document)