Copyright Awareness and Video Assignment: A Case Study on Thai First-Year Engineering Students

In a general education course, 2100111 Exploring Engineering World, for all first-year engineering students at Chulalongkorn University, each group of students had to submit a short video clip as an assigned work. Usually, more than ten percents of the submitted clips had problems with YouTube copyright concerns. In the second semester of the academic year 2017, the copyright issue was addressed under a minimal intervention approach in two steps. First, students were given a quiz at the start of the course on their practical copyright knowledge in daily life and were found to have the same misunderstanding as normal Thai public. Then, before the video clip submission at the end of the semester, a poster on available resources was posted to the course Facebook group. After the intervention, the number of copyright transgression was halved when compared with the two proceeding semesters. From the reflection, points that had to be further addressed was the changes of the intervention time, additional resources and communication of importance in actively avoiding copyright issues. Then, the expansion of instructional model to other disciplines was recommended.