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Faculty teaching DE classes may have questions about issues like IP and class sizes. This page addresses these with MiraCosta-specific guidance.

Intellectual Property

Faculty often invest considerable time in developing custom class materials for classes - especially online and hybrid classes. As such, the question of intellectual property ownership of those materials sometimes arises. MiraCosta's AP 3715 is the definitive word on this, and you are encouraged to review it thoroughly. From that document, the key statement is:

A district employee who is the creator of an academic work in their field of expertise owns the copyright in that work. Academic works include textbooks, lecture notes and other course materials, literary works, artistic works, musical works, architectural works, and software produced with no more than nominal or incidental use of the district’s resources. Academic works described in this paragraph are owned by the employee, even though such works may have been developed within the employee’s scope of employment. [emphasis added]

With that said, faculty are always encouraged to consider sharing with other faculty. Especially when faculty are assigned to teach an online or hybrid class for the first time, many faculty will provide access to previous versions of the course in Canvas. Given the IP rules in place at MiraCosta described above, it's very important to be clear in such circumstances about what rights you are - or are not - transferring to other faculty when sharing course materials. Faculty are encouraged to consider using Creative Commons licensing when sharing original work.

Class Sizes

At MiraCosta College, no special provisions are made for class sizes for DE. Each course has its own class size maximum which applies to every section of that course, whether it is taught in a classroom or online. The class size maxima list is updated each year and kept in a folder on the MiraCosta SharePoint portal (login required).

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