ABSTRACT
Like many university faculty who began their teaching careers in the 1980s, I have experienced the advent of information technology as having a direct effect on my pedagogical practice. I have had to “scramble to keep up” with current trends, and even have gone so far as to take an online graduate certifi cate course on instructional design for distance learning. My instructor and other classmates were all instructional designers or educational technologists. At the same time, I have been politically active on my own campus regarding the formulation of an intellectual property policy to protect faculty rights of creative control. Within those discussions I have taken the position that course materials produced for distance learning or for hybrid courses are creative forms owned by faculty, not “work for hire” owned by the university, regardless of the amount of resources made available to produce, distribute or deliver these materials.
