Better Business Starts with Better Business Education
As part of the IgnitEd community, IHMA members have access to a network of like-minded educators who are also shaping tomorrow’s business leaders. You have the ability to contribute your most successful pedagogical materials, such as course designs, cases, problem sets, and more, and you can also adopt tried and true resources from fellow scholars to strengthen your classroom teaching and improve learning outcomes.
Why Share Your Resources?
Demonstrate Engagement and Impact
With a global community at your fingertips, you can extend your reach far beyond a single classroom. Upon sharing, you'll have access to personalized metrics that you can leverage to demonstrate engagement and impact for tenure packets, accreditation reports, and annual performance reviews.
Take control of your intellectual property
We know ownership of your intellectual property is essential. All materials are protected under the Creative Commons License of your choosing, and you have the ability to update or remove resources at any time, so you'll always have control of your content.
Profit from your work or share for free
Journals and institutions often reap the benefits of your work, but as a nonprofit organization, IgnitEd puts the power in your hands. In less than five minutes, you can upload your pre-existing materials and choose from three flexible pricing options: fixed price, suggested price or free. With clean and simple profit sharing, you'll earn 50 percent of all purchases of your materials.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What sort of resources can I share?
A. Anything that you want! Think assignments, worksheets, datasets, in-class exercises, videos, and discussion questions. The sky's the limit! We can support any material that will help educators around the world increase student engagement.
Q: What are the benefits of sharing my resources?
A: When you upload your resources, you're sharing them with a global community of scholars who are looking to engage their students and empower them to be future business leaders. Through your account you'll have access to metrics that show where your resources have been used, which can be a compelling way to demonstrate impact in your tenure packet, annual performance review or accreditation reports. You’ll also be able to leverage reviews from professors and students who have engaged with your materials.
Q: Who sets the price?
A: You do! You are always in control of your material. We offer three different pricing options.
- Free
- Fixed Price
- Flexible Price
Q: I don't have a lot of time. How long does it take to upload a resource?
A: On average, it takes less than five minutes to upload a resource.
Q: Tell me more about Flexible Pricing.
A: Flexible Pricing allows you to set a suggested price for your resource, but also allows under-resourced professors to use the resource regardless of their ability to pay.
Q: What are the royalties paid for a shared resource?
A: We split the profits with you 50/50. We calculate profits as what is left after an approximately 3% credit card fee is deducted from the sale price.
Q: Do I still own my materials?
A: Absolutely! By uploading material you are allowing IgnitEd a limited license to store, sell and market the material on your behalf, but your work is always in your control! You can add or delete material at any time.
Q: How will my materials be used?
A: We leverage the Creative Commons licensing system so you can determine how your work is used through Shared Resources. For more information on the licenses, visit Creative Commons.
Q: How will users find my material?
A: Shared resources will appear in the "Course Resources" section of ignited.global. Users can filter based on content type or discipline as well as a number of other options.
Q: Can I limit my materials to faculty only?
A: Of course! During the upload process, there are separate areas for faculty files and student files. We make sure that any account belonging to a faculty member has been verified to keep instructor manuals out of students' hands.
Q: Do you only offer material in English?
A: At this time we welcome material in English and Spanish.
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