Abstract

Educators as Content Creators in a Diverse Digital Media Landscape

Highlights

  • The Covid-19 Pandemic and quick pivot to emergency remote teaching have further exasperated this drive by requiring educators to, quite rapidly and with little preparation, support learning at a distance (Bozkurt et al 2020)

  • By drawing on the digital literacies associated with the fair use of copyright resources, linking and embedding, and open educational practices, content creators can develop their ability to use materials sourced from the web in legal and technically appropriate ways that allow for creative outputs

  • This paper focuses on the ways educators can work within the guidelines of copyright while using digital media to develop educational content in legal and ethical ways

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Introduction

The Covid-19 Pandemic and quick pivot to emergency remote teaching have further exasperated this drive by requiring educators to, quite rapidly and with little preparation, support learning at a distance (Bozkurt et al 2020). This has placed a tremendous burden on educational institutions and educators as well as learners and their parents. Educators are often combining resources from multiple sources to meet the needs of their learners This may be done to ensure a lesson is current, to meet the needs of differentiated instruction and universal design for learning, or to design learning materials that are engaging, interactive, and engaging to work with. By drawing on the digital literacies associated with the fair use of copyright resources, linking and embedding, and open educational practices, content creators can develop their ability to use materials sourced from the web in legal and technically appropriate ways that allow for creative outputs

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