Incorporating Copyrighted Educational Materials | Origin: EL114
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Respecting Copyrights and Leveraging Available Resources --> Incorporating Copyrighted Educational Materials
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
Knowing copyright laws is important. Often the library is a good place to start for guidance and the libraries of many major universities are also good resources.
Reply to Janet Smith Stasiak's post:I definitely agree with this. I feel like I have used things for the pizzazz factor and now I am thinking I have commited a copywrite infringement.
In this module I could reviewed the impact of copyright material for education uses, what laws correspond to diffrerent entities, and ways to avoid or minimize this law infringment.
In addition to my college classes, I also teach on the high school level. No wonder the district tells us to not use anything that is not district purchased, in the public domain, or available via a creative commons license.
In this module, I have learned the importance of copyright law and that instructors become as knowledgeable and proactive as possible. I will request a generic permission request form in my courses available to use anytime permission is needed.
The challenges of obtaining copy rights should be disseminayed to new employees.
With copy rights becoming such a problem, I thing institutions should develop the bulk of the course material but leave room for instructors to add copy right approved or public domain information.
This training is so good! I have been worked for for-profit schools most of my career. I know I certainly made some mistakes back in the beginning. I am in a position now to draft our copyright policy and train our facult (F2F and online) and course developers on how to appropriately use materials, how to seek permissions to use copyrighted and licensed materials, etc.
One area I don't feel there is enough clarity, is on the different types of creative commons licenses. The "non-commercial" is tricky. I don't think for-profit educational institutions should fall under commercial, so I am wondering if you have some guidance?
I must admit that this has made me hesitant in using any materials. I can see why some educators choose to use materials from the texts that were specifcally procured for the class. I had always thought graphs, pictures, and even cute cartoons added spice to on line lectures, but now I ask....at what cost? I'm too risk averse to continue using these items, but I'm glad that I'm aware of the risk now.
