ERIC Number: EJ840273
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jan
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-1552-3233
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Fair Use Education for the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Study of Students' Use of an Interactive Tool to Guide Decision Making
Greenhow, Christine; Walker, J. D.; Donnelly, Dan; Cohen, Brad
Innovate: Journal of Online Education, v4 n2 Dec 2007-Jan 2008
Christine Greenhow, J. D. Walker, Dan Donnelly, and Brad Cohen describe the implementation and evaluation of the University of Minnesota's Fair Use Analysis (FUA) tool, an interactive online application intended to educate users and foster defensible fair use practice in accordance with copyright law by guiding users through a robust, fact-specific, four-factor analysis. After examining the FUA tool's ability to improve both student understanding of the four factors involved in fair use analysis and the quality of student reasoning with those factors, Greenhow, Walker, Donnelly, and Cohen suggest that students still find certain aspects of fair use law particularly difficult to comprehend and offer recommendations for educators and administrators seeking to design or disseminate similar tools to promote informed instructional practices. (Contains 4 exhibits.)
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education, Copyrights, Factor Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Compliance (Legal), Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies, Guidelines, Internet, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
Fischler School of Education and Human Services. Nova Southeastern University, 1750 NE 167th Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33162. Tel: 800-986-3223; e-mail: innovate@nova.edu; Web site: http://innovateonline.info
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Teachers; Administrators
Language: English
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