Habituating Students to IPR Questions During Creative Project Work

Ville Isomöttönen, Tommi Kärkkäinen

2017

Abstract

Intellectual property rights (IPR) constitute a topic that is unavoidably encountered in digitalizing learning environments but that has received little attention as a separate educational research topic. In a project course context where students ideate and implement open data-themed projects, and hence IPR questions are highly relevant, we have learned that students readily perceive this matter as a side topic and tackle it without much deliberation. To improve students’ awareness of IPR questions, we modified our course arrangements. This article analyzes and discusses students’ responses to IPR in this setting. We found that students consider IPR a challenge, and we argue that they must be “habituated” to think over this matter. The temporariness, incompleteness, and potential humor of educational projects constrain students’ interest in IPR, while the perceived relevance of a project topic increases their interest. Students altogether appreciate that IPR questions are raised and need to be agreed on within teams.

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Isomöttönen V. and Kärkkäinen T. (2017). Habituating Students to IPR Questions During Creative Project Work . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-240-0, pages 95-102. DOI: 10.5220/0006284800950102


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@conference{csedu17,
author={Ville Isomöttönen and Tommi Kärkkäinen},
title={Habituating Students to IPR Questions During Creative Project Work},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2017},
pages={95-102},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006284800950102},
isbn={978-989-758-240-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Habituating Students to IPR Questions During Creative Project Work
SN - 978-989-758-240-0
AU - Isomöttönen V.
AU - Kärkkäinen T.
PY - 2017
SP - 95
EP - 102
DO - 10.5220/0006284800950102