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Effective digital skills are essential for all teachers and tutors in the Further Education (FE) and Skills Sector. This text brings together important theory and research around digital literacy and outlines what this means for teaching in the sector. It presents a practical guide to the application of digital literacy skills in practice to enhance learning and teaching. It offers FE and Skills teachers and tutors a practical framework, underpinned by the standards through which they can develop their digital literacy skills. The text introduces different types of web-based technologies and explores how they can be used in teaching. It gives guidance on the skills teachers and tutors need to develop and on how they can ensure that their learners focus on these skills too. It also examines issues of digital safety, security and responsibility and how online learning communities can be accessed. It introduces some of the digital devices provided as teaching resources in the FE and skills sector and how these can be used fully to support learning. Finally, it looks at how teachers and tutors can maintain their digital skills going into practice and how continuous reflection can help them enhance their teaching.
Copyright, Licensing and Ethical Use of Digital Content
Copyright, Licensing and Ethical Use of Digital Content
In this chapter you will learn:
- What copyright and licensing are and how they relate to digital content.
- How digital content may be used for educational purposes under UK copyright legislation.
- About the different types of licences FE and Skills sector institutions need to purchase in order to use digital content.
- To think about how we teach about rights and responsibilities with digital content and tackle plagiarism.
- About choosing licences and ensuring copyright compliance when publishing your own digital content.
Links to the Digitally Literate FE and Skills Teacher Framework
- Understands and leads on digital safety, responsibility and citizenship.
- Understands own legal, ethical and professional rights and responsibilities when using, creating and publishing digital content.
- Understands the definition ...
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