The School of Open has launched!
Take a free online course on copyright for educators, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open culture, open video formats, and more at http://schoolofopen.org/.
Enroll in this stand-alone course:
Intro to Openness in Education
Another free course is actually facilitated (signup now through 3/17 – class starts on 3/18) for educators who want to know more about copyright law in the US:
Copyright for Educators:
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/147/copyright-for-educators-us/
The course is taught around practical case studies faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day-to-day teaching. By answering the case scenarios and drafting and discussing the answers in groups, you and other participants will learn:
- What is the public domain?
- What does copyright law protect?
- What is fair use?
- What other exceptions are there in copyright law?
- What are open access educational resources?
Goals
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the basic concepts of copyright law;
- Identify copyright issues in education;
- Understand when fair use or other copyright exceptions apply to teacher, librarian, or student use of copyrighted content; and
- Strategize and talk with your students, peers, and administrators about how to use copyright exceptions in education.
Who should take this course?
- Teachers, librarians, and administrators in K-12 schools or higher education in the US
- Anyone interested in education who would like to learn about US law as it pertains to educators
Read more about the launch at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179.
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