Where I am, students increasingly produce work intended for an audience. Perceived benefits include wider public appreciation of what students do, and students understanding the point and potential impact of their work.

However, sometimes students get to the end of, say, a group project to make a small website, and would be happy to make that open – except they’ve used some copyright materials. They’re entitled to do that for internal educational use, but when it comes to publishing or opening, that needs careful thought about fair use. Some tutors are more than willing to incorporate this dilemma into their curriculum, but not all are ready to.

Another thing, related to the same scenario, is that opening up the product of group work raises the question of what happens when members disagree about what licence to release under. I don’t think simple majoritarian approaches work here, and we need a clear policy if a group member wants to dissociate from that bit of work later on.

Anyway, we’re getting along with pragmatic solutions – see this rather ponderous decision support https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/x/BQYzAw .

Sadly I won’t be at the conference, but I think keynotes are streamed – am I right?