Copyright Laws for Online Learning and Development 

Entering this course, I expected self-motivation to be difficult because I thought anything related to the law is boring. I surprised myself when I worked my new understanding into conversations with friends, family, and coworkers. Initially, I believed that intellectual property rights were about the rights holder exclusively. I grew to understand that our laws were created to encourage creativity for the benefit of all. The case studies we read provided thought-provoking conversations. The concept of fair use originally brought fear, then empowerment as we explored how to ensure creators received credit for their work.

 In our final weeks, we applied skills and knowledge from the 5000 course as we developed modules teaching the new facts and concepts we discovered during the first half of the class.

• Part 1: Legal and Ethical Guide for Instructional Designers

The cohort was tasked to generate individualized guiding documents based on research.

• Part 2: Instructional Design Plan for Legal and Ethical Planning

We applied the content from the course to the skills learned in IDT 5000 to form a course.