IDT 5010: Copyright Laws for Online
Learning and Development
TNU Course Description:
This course will teach the basics of copyright laws, fair use guidelines, and ADA compliance regulations relevant to the design process. Learners will investigate the idea of intellectual property as it applies to businesses and organizations. The goal is to provide learners with a practical framework for analyzing copyright issues that they encounter in their professional work. This course will use real life examples—some of them quite complex—to help learners get used to the systematic analysis of copyright problems in course design. This course is intentionally a step toward bridging the gulf that is often perceived between desirable educational practice and legal permissible activities.
Instructor: Dr. Judy Bivens
Reflection:
Before taking this class, I knew very little about copyright and absolutely nothing about fair use, in fact I hadn’t even heard of it. Having a clearer understanding about copyright and fair use provide me more freedom and less fear about what, when, and how to use copyrighted works. Reading the different Best Practices documents and learning about the Teach Act provided well-researched information regarding the four factors of fair use: Purpose, Nature, Amount, and Effect, and how they are applied to determine if there is a good case for the fair use of copyrighted material. Transformativeness is key.
The Fair Use Checklist was one of the most practical artifacts from this class. When including a copyrighted work, it is recommended to complete a fair use checklist for several reasons: to help determine if claiming fair use is justified, to hold oneself accountable for the choices we make regarding the works we use, and to document at the time of use why we have chosen to use those works, so that if at a later date it comes into question, we have documentation reflecting our thought processes. Professionally, I can help educate my students about copyright, and will certainly implement the fair use checklist to document my choices for using copyrighted items in the lessons I teach, as well as require my students to use the checklist as part of assignments and projects where they would likely use copyrighted works. The weekly Case Studies that we read, watched, researched, and discussed were some of the most educational. Ultimately, I realized that one of the strengths of fair use is its flexibility, and with that came "grey areas" and many discussions posts that included “it depends” when determining if fair use was properly applied in the case studies. I am thankful this class was scheduled early in the IDT Masters program; it has already proven to be quite beneficial.
Artifacts:
This course will teach the basics of copyright laws, fair use guidelines, and ADA compliance regulations relevant to the design process. Learners will investigate the idea of intellectual property as it applies to businesses and organizations. The goal is to provide learners with a practical framework for analyzing copyright issues that they encounter in their professional work. This course will use real life examples—some of them quite complex—to help learners get used to the systematic analysis of copyright problems in course design. This course is intentionally a step toward bridging the gulf that is often perceived between desirable educational practice and legal permissible activities.
Instructor: Dr. Judy Bivens
Reflection:
Before taking this class, I knew very little about copyright and absolutely nothing about fair use, in fact I hadn’t even heard of it. Having a clearer understanding about copyright and fair use provide me more freedom and less fear about what, when, and how to use copyrighted works. Reading the different Best Practices documents and learning about the Teach Act provided well-researched information regarding the four factors of fair use: Purpose, Nature, Amount, and Effect, and how they are applied to determine if there is a good case for the fair use of copyrighted material. Transformativeness is key.
The Fair Use Checklist was one of the most practical artifacts from this class. When including a copyrighted work, it is recommended to complete a fair use checklist for several reasons: to help determine if claiming fair use is justified, to hold oneself accountable for the choices we make regarding the works we use, and to document at the time of use why we have chosen to use those works, so that if at a later date it comes into question, we have documentation reflecting our thought processes. Professionally, I can help educate my students about copyright, and will certainly implement the fair use checklist to document my choices for using copyrighted items in the lessons I teach, as well as require my students to use the checklist as part of assignments and projects where they would likely use copyrighted works. The weekly Case Studies that we read, watched, researched, and discussed were some of the most educational. Ultimately, I realized that one of the strengths of fair use is its flexibility, and with that came "grey areas" and many discussions posts that included “it depends” when determining if fair use was properly applied in the case studies. I am thankful this class was scheduled early in the IDT Masters program; it has already proven to be quite beneficial.
Artifacts:
- Copyright
- Fair Use Checklist
- Training Plan for Objective 2.2 (PowerPoint show)
- Training Plan for Objective 2.2 (PPT saved to YouTube)