Jun 11 2007
Information, Media and the Mission of University in the Digital Age
I’ve been working on a first pass at my directed study proposal for the fall. Here it is:
“Digital media, the Internet and copyright law present growing challenges to educators and academic institutions working to share access to teaching and learning resources inside and outside the classroom. But what is a classroom in the digital age? Where does the classroom begin and end when online learning materials become increasingly accessible through open, walled, and semi-walled gardens? This course will examine these and other questions, including:
- What is the mission of University?
- What are recommended Fair Use guidelines and best practices for educators and students in the digital age?
- What software platforms are being used and developed to encourage online sharing of educational materials while balancing the rights of copyright owners and concerns of academic institutions?
To investigate these issues, the course will be divided into three sections to further explore recent scholarship and innovative educational initiatives related to the topics above. The final project will result in a 25 page research paper. In conducting research for this study, the course will include a directed study blog incorporating del.icio.us links (and this wiki) to allow the instructor and the public at-large to participate in a collaborative learning environment.”
The wiki for the directed study is closed, but I will be setting up a blog which will be open for participation. More soon . . .
[...] In a previous post, I mentioned a course that I was designing for the fall. At that point, the emphasis for the Directed Study included an examination of how the mission of University relates to Fair Use of digital media in education. Since then, my adviser, Eric Gordon and I decided to shift focus a bit to consider the question “What does it mean to be fair?” in this context. [...]