I am very pleased with our online delivery system becomes it already incorporates a lot of material from the ebooks that we use.
I like the idea that online course instructors copyright their original lessons.
Copyright is so very important, especially in the educational realm. Many course designers and instructors want to add images to presentation material and often do, as it is easy to just download or take a screen shot of images found on the internet. However, this is not always legal or appropriate depending on the type of license. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Private sector, for-profit educational institutions do not have the same rights as public sector, non-profit educational institutions. It's unfortunate because the goal of all educational institutions should is to educate.
I appreciate the clarification of copyright laws. I have often seen the use of cartoons and other media used by faculty or in CEU type presentations and now I realize these were probably innappropriate. I hope to see further clarification in upcoming segments because I'm curious where the line is for citation versus requesting permission to use work due to copyright.
Yes because to protect someone else work its important to use and to give appropriate credit to the source you got the information from is very important.
It is quite easy to cross boundaries into copyright infringement without intending to do so. The fat that you think that the use of material is fair does not make it "fair use", and can open both you and your institution to serios finanical ramifications/
As a teacher I am very carefull to give notice of where I got my imf
I liked the recommendations for computer software tools to help with anti-plagiarism efforts.
As an educator I use multiple sources on the internet and do not request copyright. I intend to share this with my peers because this is valuable information about asking for permission.
I'm an attorney and writer, and I've needed to understand this information in order to engage in best practices myself. As a teacher, figuring out what is proper can be tricky, so this is valuable information on how to approach learning online. Distinguishing the copyright protected materials from non-protected was particularly helpful.
I use these practices daily in class since I teach Graphic Communications and Design classes. We have to make sure we follow all copyright laws when creating t-shirts designs, logo and product designs. It was great to see more indepth on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
