Copyright and Teaching
Creative Commons
Public Domain Materials
Open access books
Open access textbooks
Open access journals and articles
For a Coursera course, utilization of fair use is limited. Instructors can usually rely on fair use if they do the following:
When planning a MOOC, here are some general questions to ask when evaluating third party material (image, text, video, etc.):
For those who are participating in Blackboard, online course platform used by Lewis Univerisity and many other universities, there are special copyright considerations.
Textbook publishers may be willing to authorize use of the image content and other materials from a textbook in your recorded lectures, if the text is a recommended resource for the course. Some journals, too, may be willing to authorize use of articles or content taken from articles (or "portions of articles") in course lectures and recommended readings. Moreover, faculty who are the original authors of such articles are more likely to obtain permissions for these uses.