E. Mitchell's Create 3.1.2 – Fair Use and the TEACH Act Quest

• How does an understanding of Fair Use affect one’s role as an online instructor?
• This is important for multiple reasons.  To begin, as a course developer one has to be careful of what is integrated and how much can be used.  Additionally, our classrooms are large, meaning I can have a class of 60 segments which stretches the parameters of my class greatly in comparison to a F2F situation of only 28-32 students. Third, it is important to act as a role model for students.  As we harp on them about things like plagiarism, we too should be following the appropriately deemed rules.
• How do Fair Use and the TEACH Act correlate to the delivery of reliable content?
• It allows for educators to attain resources that might have otherwise been pretty costly to apprehend.  For example, College Board creates yearly practice exams for all courses.  Since College Board constructs the national exam for AP Psych, of course I want to use these questions to review with my students.  Copyright prohibits me sharing the exam directly with students during an Adobe sessions, but I can share a few by copying and pasting them into a word document.  Otherwise, CB could make them available at a cost that the school or students could not afford.  This way I am able to provide a couple of enhancement opportunities that might not otherwise have happened due to lack of funding.