Copyright Laws for Online Learning and Development
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 intellectual property as it applies to businesses and organizations. The goal is to provide learners with a practical framework for analyzing copyright issues they encounter in their professional work. This course will use real-life examples—some quite complex—to help learners get used to systematically analyzing copyright problems in course design. This course is intentionally a step toward bridging desirable educational practice and legally permissible activities." IDT5010 at Trevecca Nazarene University
Instructor: Dr. Doug Renfro
Reflection: This stimulating course presented laws and principles concerning intellectual property, accessibility, and eLearning design. Professional instructional designers must appropriately manage and make sound decisions about legal and ethical situations. The main projects for this course involved developing a code of ethics statement, principles for determining fair use, a code of best practices for instructional designers, and a use-case scenario that incorporated the principles of intellectual property, copyright, accessibility, and ADA compliance. The culminating activity for the course involved creating an "Instructional Designers' Guide to Legal and Ethical Responsibilities." This guide includes specific laws, legal requirements, and ethical concerns instructional designers must follow.
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 intellectual property as it applies to businesses and organizations. The goal is to provide learners with a practical framework for analyzing copyright issues they encounter in their professional work. This course will use real-life examples—some quite complex—to help learners get used to systematically analyzing copyright problems in course design. This course is intentionally a step toward bridging desirable educational practice and legally permissible activities." IDT5010 at Trevecca Nazarene University
Instructor: Dr. Doug Renfro
Reflection: This stimulating course presented laws and principles concerning intellectual property, accessibility, and eLearning design. Professional instructional designers must appropriately manage and make sound decisions about legal and ethical situations. The main projects for this course involved developing a code of ethics statement, principles for determining fair use, a code of best practices for instructional designers, and a use-case scenario that incorporated the principles of intellectual property, copyright, accessibility, and ADA compliance. The culminating activity for the course involved creating an "Instructional Designers' Guide to Legal and Ethical Responsibilities." This guide includes specific laws, legal requirements, and ethical concerns instructional designers must follow.