
Legal matters
Legal matters
Here you will find papers on legal aspects of digital teaching, ranging from the use of AI in studies to online examination regulations, as well as a checklist to help you check digital tools for data protection compliance.
A checklist for assessing digital tools with regard to data protection aspects can be found on the tools page.
With this checklist, we provide lecturers and other employees involved in digitally supported teaching with an overview of responsibilities and legal requirements that must be observed when using digital tools.
It should be noted that this checklist cannot replace advice on data protection law, but is merely intended to provide support in the selection of data protection-compliant tools. In principle, internal university requirements must be taken into account.
Universities need to think about how to deal with AI generators in teaching, learning and examinations from a didactic and legal perspective. This involves the use of AI generators that are freely available on the internet by teachers and students. ChatGPT and Dall-E from the US provider OpenAI are frequently used. Teachers can use AI tools to create and update teaching material, to visualise teaching or to assess coursework and examinations. Students can use AI tools to create coursework or examinations. This information paper is intended to provide an initial overview of the current legal situation regarding the use of AI for the AK AI orientation framework.
In addition to the paper, there is also a presentation on this topic.
Knowledge of the basics of image rights is essential in order to present your own and other people's images or videos in lectures or share them in lecture slides in compliance with the law. This is because infringements of copyright or personal rights could result in expensive warnings. The paper provides information on the rights of the creators of images, graphics or videos and the rights of persons depicted in photos and briefly summarises what needs to be considered when using them in lecture slides. AI-generated images and videos are discussed in particular. A final checklist summarises the most important points for everyday teaching.
Whether technical instructions or didactic concepts: Universities benefit from making materials from their service and support facilities available as Open Educational Resources (OER) across all universities. As a rule, the materials are not created specifically for this purpose, but are already in use within the university.
When openly licensing existing materials, two aspects of copyright law are of particular importance for university staff: the rights of use and the right to attribution.
In a guide, we show what you as an employee should bear in mind in order to be on the safe side legally when openly licensing materials from your institution.
The new Section 7 (4) of the NHG enables universities to include online examinations in their examination regulations, subject to certain requirements, and thus create a legal basis for this form of examination. The paper identifies the legal requirements for such regulations. The appendix contains a sample framework examination regulation with associated data protection information and a declaration of consent from the examinees. These samples were developed in a working group of the legal departments of the universities involved in the SOUVER@N project.
More and more digital teaching formats are finding their way into teaching. The question arises as to how the voluntary provision, creation and supervision of digital teaching services can be recognised and rewarded in the teaching load in accordance with the LVVO Nds. This paper identifies the possibilities offered by the LVVO Nds. and discusses possible solutions to capacity issues.
The partner universities of the SOUVER@N project would like to open their continuing education programmes to members of the partner universities. The aim is to utilise ‘remaining places’ sensibly. The following paper presents the legal basis in the NHG for such cooperation and discusses the extent to which EU state aid law could stand in the way.