#4 – Be knowledgeable about copyright, what is legal and what is not, and what your open options are.
Many people in education play pretty loose with copyright rules, figuring that “educational use” gives them the right to do whatever they want with copyrighted property. While everyone has to make their own choices about this, certainly we should make sure our students know what is legal and practice this. This is an important 21st century skill that all students need.
Here are some good resources for brushing up on copyright and various open licensed content options:
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
(This is part of an on-going series on what you can do to help grow the OER movement.)
What You Can Do – #4