Much of what I have learned was knowledge that I developed during the 7 years I have been teaching in the online environment. Perhaps this information would have been most beneficial "before" I started teaching online rather than after 7-8 years of teaching online. This material merely reinforced what I have experienced.

Since I teach English composition courses, I have always known that it is critical for students to understand the importance of ownership of other peoples' work, and I have always stressed this. The only additional thing that I feel I can share is the reason why the copyright laws were created in the first place. We already discuss the consequences (mainly of plagiarism) through case studies.

I enjoyed this course, but I am short on words. I guess I am all blogged out. I just completed a post-graduate course in Computers and Composition and blogging was a part of the course requirement. I had to complete 15 entries for my blog and I created a new blog for my 27 page research project, so I would now like to take a rest. Don't bother to comment to my blog because I am not going to respond.

Even though I have been teaching in the online environment for the past 6 years, there was still a lot to be learned. Not only did this course confirm some of my own common sense practices, but it helped me become more confident as an online educator. Now I know some things that I didn't know before.