Understand copyright considerations in regard to students and renewable assignments
Understand privacy considerations in regard to students and renewable assignments
It’s important that students who are creating items that might be published and shared openly can understand what that means. If you’re uncomfortable about discussing copyright with your students, MCC librarians can visit your class to make this process easier.
Your students don’t need to be copyright lawyers to feel safe using OER. Focus on building a comfortable foundation of knowledge about CC licenses: the rest, if necessary, can come later.
If you’d like your students to learn more about this topic but don’t know where to start, consider reaching out to MCC Libraries or a copyright support person on your campus.
Alternatively, you can adopt an OER to teach your students about copyright, such as Larysa Nadolny’s Copyright & Fair Use for K-12 Educators.
Some students will be energized by the idea that their homework can be seen, used, or even improved upon by future students in the class. Others may feel uncomfortable with this step. Allow students to opt out of making their materials public if they are uncertain about doing so and give them the option to remove their name from public documents if they are uncertain about this for any reason.
Explain clearly how and where student-created course content will be shared in the course syllabus.
Teach students their rights as content creators and allow them to opt out of sharing their assignments.
Allow students to share their work without attaching their personal information to it, if they are concerned about this.
Reaffirm students’ interest in publicly sharing their materials with each assignment that will be posted.
How Public? Why Public? - Open Pedagogy Notebook
Review the Additional Student Privacy Resources
Copyright Considerations and Privacy Considerations text adapted from The OER Starter Kit Workbook by Abbey K. Elder & Stacy Katz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted