LiDA100: Learning in a Digital Age

Stimulus Resources

• Revisit the case study for ideas on writing up a mini copyright context.
• Consider the following multiple choice examples for ideas on what to avoid when compiling your MCQ questions (with the understanding that you may not know the answers that are specific to the respective copyright legalization of the country concerned):
  • Software and Copyright from the BBC.
  • MCQ Questions on Intellectual Property Rights from McGraw-Hill.
  • Note: Context is important, for example country and intended audience for the questions.

Optional Support Resources

• Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions
• 10 Rules for Writing Multiple Choice Questions
• Writing Multiple Choice Questions
• 7 Mistakes to Avoid Writing MCQs from Faculty Focus.

Purpose

In this learning challenge you demonstrate how to apply your knowledge of copyright by developing two multiple choice questions based on a context you describe in your own country. The activity is inspired by the quotation attributed to Yogi Bhajan: 

“If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.”

You may use thoughtful challenging items in future courses, so please consider licensing your outputs with an open license. We will only use resources under a Creative Commons Attribution or Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.

Tasks

1. Review the stimulus resource links and search for the web for additional resources which can assist you in achieving the learning outcome actions for this challenge.
2. Think about a practical copyright situation, for example, a teacher preparing an online course or learner completing an assignment which focuses on two or more aspects of copyright in a digital world.
3. Does your proposed copyright situation relate to two or more of the following: scope, ownership, rights, exceptions or transfer of rights?
4. Consider the implications of your national copyright act.
5. Consider possible questions relating to this copyright situation which would demonstrate an application of your knowledge of copyright.

Outputs

1. Prepare and publish a blog post containing two multiple choice questions based on a copyright situation (i.e. a mini scenario). You may use the same copyright situation sketch for both MCQs, or a separate context for each question. In your blog post you should:
   • State the context including the country and intended audience for the MCQs.
   • Describe the copyright situation (no more than 200 words) where possible including links to web sites illustrating the real artifacts referenced in your copyright example without breach of your own copyright act.
   • Develop two MCQs based on the mini copyright situation you describe. Your MCQs must:
     • Specify the correct answer for example: ANSWER: <text for correct answer alternative>
     • Specify the distractors, for example: DISTRACTOR: <text for incorrect alternative>
     • Provide formative feedback for all alternatives, that is feedback for correct and incorrect answers. You must specify the reasons why and option is correct or incorrect.
2. Visit and read the blog posts from fellow students for this Activity and provide feedback by commenting two student posts.
3. Pay your learning forward. Where possible, please use a Creative Commons Attribution or Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license for your blog posts. See https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-my-material how to apply a Creative Commons license. This will enable us to reuse the questions you develop to provide more case study examples for future lida103 students. (In the absence of clearly licensing your post with these licenses, we will not be able to legally use your contributions for future courses.
4. Remember to label or tag your post using the course code: lida103