We talked about Open Education Resources during class this week. This was an interesting topic for many reasons, as we also talked about copyright. I knew that copyright was something that we all had to be aware of when copying music, scanning a book, however, I didn’t know how much Disney cared about copyright until this class. One of my friends paints Disney princess portraits for people and sells them on Etsy, and I am now very concerned that Disney will go after her for copyright. However, focusing on the Open Education Resource if our college is able to develop a full Open Education Resource that all students are able to use, attending classes will become a lot cheaper. Many Professors have us purchase textbooks that can cost up to $200, and it becomes expensive when you are taking 5/6 classes. I was super excited to hear that we do have an open online resource, even though it doesn’t relate to my classes specifically.
