MediaBerkman

Bill McGeveran, former Berkman Center Fellow and researcher with the Digital Media Project talks about the release of a new white paper, titled “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Content in a Digital Age.”

This foundational white paper reports on a year-long study by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The paper explores the relationship between copyright law and education. In particular, whether innovative uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copyright.

To learn more, we’ll hear Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center interview Bill McGeveran.

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Attribution: Music used in this edition of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track titled “You Belong” by Lizzi on the album “Love and you and I“, available at Magnatune.

William McGeveran, Jackie Harlow, and Professor William W. Fisher III present a progress report on their year-long research project about Educational Uses of Content in the Digital Age, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The project considers (1) the ways in which digitization alters the use of content by teachers and scholars in their educational mission; (2) what obstacles (legal, technical, or institutional) prevent the full potential of digital learning; and (3) what reforms might improve the situation. Professor Fisher is the lead investigator. Berkman Fellow William McGeveran and Berkman student fellow Jackie Harlow are coordinating the project.

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