A Legal Primer for Online Instructors
Protect Your Online Staff from Legal Risk
College professors know their course material and how to deliver online instruction.
Many faculty members may not understand the legal risks involved with teaching these distance education classes.
That’s because faculty members simply aren’t trained in the legal implications of online courses.
Professors are expected to know and adhere to all these legal requirements when teaching in an online platform.
Inadequately trained faculty members and course designers may unknowingly open your institution to costly lawsuits and embarrassing legal challenges.
Debi Moon, J.D., and Rob Jenkins, M.A., introduce you to the top legal concerns of online programming and explain how to avoid the biggest legal mistakes.
They also suggest ways to safeguard your institution’s distance education offerings in this 75-minute seminar.
What you'll learn:
- How to protect your school’s reputation and finances from legal threats based on online programming
- What constitutes harassment and defamation, for faculty and for students
- Strategies for steering clear of legal problems online
- How to identify potential problem areas at your colleges or in your courses
- How to construct websites and course materials that conform to the law and to college policies
- Faculty rights when it comes to intellectual property creation
- Ways to safeguard course materials and other proprietary information
- Personal faculty liability in an online teaching environment
- How to create reasonable and responsible computer use policies
- How to review existing online material for potential copyright violations
- Effective strategies to avoid defamation or harassment problems
Who will benefit from A Legal Primer for Online Instructors?
- Professors and instructors with online teaching responsibilities
- Department chairs
- Academic affairs administrators
- Faculty developers
- Distance education professionals
- Technical support staff
- Anyone else with an interest in avoiding potentially costly mistakes related to online courses
Recorded: 9/21/2010
Running Time: 75 minutes
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Available in CD or print transcript format. Presenter's handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases.
Make this program available for ongoing training
Order the Campus Access License and load the CD content onto your institution’s internal web site for unlimited, convenient, on-demand access for all members of your campus community
 | Debi Moon, J.D. |
 | Rob Jenkins, M.A. |
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