Empowering Educational Resources
From Control and Containment to Sharing and Reuse
A Presentation by Bill Warters
Faculty Fellow
WSU Office for Teaching and Learning

Resource Control and Containment
• Much Energy has been expended
exploring ways to control and
constrain the use of video, audio,
pictures and text that, while
appropriate for educational use
purposes, due to copyright
restrictions, should only be made
accessible at certain moments,
durations, locations, and for users
in certain roles or statuses...

Focus has been on Digital Rights Management
• This is a very complex area, especially when you apply
it to the Research and Education context.
• Critics say that DRM has been unbalanced in favor of
the rights of the content creator/owner in contrast to the
rights of the user/c