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support of George Mason University's strategic priorities, GMU-TV
assists with the creation and development of instructional materials
training and promotional tapes, modules, and courses suitable
for television broadcast. To facilitate this mission and to
insure high quality instructional materials, GMU-TV invites
proposals from academic departments and faculty members who
wish to develop such materials. The following procedures help
to provide the most effective support for these projects.
Initial
Meeting Faculty
or departments interested in instructional videos should call
and arrange for a tour and a meeting with an instructional
video producer. GMU-TVis located on the 4th floor of Innovation
Hall. Our phone number is 993-3110. During this initial meeting,
the GMU-TV staff will explain the options and technology
available for video and show some examples of GMU-TV work.
This initial meeting will also serve as a brainstorming session
to help you envision the best way to present their particular
material via television and provide the framework for an Instructional
Video Proposal. After this initial meeting, GMU-TV staff
will continue to provide assistance in developing the proposal
and a script for the project.
Tape costs are a consideration depending on the size of the
project, GMU-TV reserves the right to ask the department to
pay for tapes.
Instructional
Video Proposal Faculty
members or departments interested in developing video material
for broadcast should submit a written Instructional Video
Proposal to GMU-TV. The proposal should include the
following information:
- Project
Title
- Sponsoring
department
- Brief
project description (e.g. whole course, several modules,
one module, supplementary instructional material, promotional
material)
- Relationship
of the project to University curricular initiatives (e.g.
TAC) or other strategic priorities
- Intended
audience
- Expected
enrollment or use of the material
- Suitability
of material for television medium
- A rough
outline of content and general idea of expected look and
feel of the video
- An
outline of the specific support required and who will be
providing the support
- An
outline of development and a production timetable
The completed
proposal must be signed and dated by both the faculty member
and the department chair or appropriate dean/director. Instructional
Video proposals should be sent to GMU-TV at MSN 1F3.
Review
and Selection GMU-TV reviews instructional
video proposals three times a year and sets a production schedule
for one semester in advance. Proposals should be submitted
by the following deadlines for consideration:
- Summer
Production: March 1st
- Fall
Production: June 1st
- Spring
Schedule: November 1st
The selection
process is based following:
- The
project is related to current University curricular initiatives
(e.g. TAC).
- The
project serves a large number of students.
- The
project is well suited to effective use of television as
an instructional medium.
- The
project targets the needs of the Northern Virginia community.
The number
of proposals accepted for production varies according to the
production resources available each semester.
Instructional
Video Contract After
review and acceptance of the proposal, GMU-TV will extend
a contract for production of instructional video materials.
Contracts for fall will be offered by November 1. Contracts
for spring will be offered by April 1. In general, proposals
accepted in the fall will be broadcast the following fall.
Proposals accepted in the spring will be broadcast the following
spring. The contract is an agreement between the faculty
member or department and GMU-TV stating what services GMU-TV
will provide to the faculty member and what services or materials
the faculty member will provide.The contract will include:
- Deadlines
for copyright issues, pre-production and production dates.
- Producer
assignment. ·
- Statement
of who will be providing specific support required for course.
- Timetable
for course development, pre-production and taping.
- Production
costs, if any.
Copyright
Issues All
copyright permission for slides, pictures, videos, music and
graphics must be obtained prior to course production. It is
the responsibility of the department and/or faculty member to
make sure that the permission is granted and a written copy
of the permission is given to the telecourse producer along
with an explanation of how any costs for copyright will
be covered. For basic information about copyright, see DoIT's Guide to Copyright at
www.DoIT.gmu.edu/copyright.htm.
For specific information about copyright issues in relation
to distance education, see Kenneth Crew's article on Copyright and
Distance Education at http://www.ind.net/distance_ed/ipse/fdhandbook/copyrt.html.
George Mason University's Copyright Assistance Office is located
in the Johnson Center, Room 119. For questions about copyright,
please call the office at (703) 993-2562, during normal business
hours. For information about copyright ownership of instructional
materials developed by faculty, please refer to George Mason's
Copyright Policy at http://www.gmu.edu/facstaff/policy/ae.html.
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