Media and digital literacies in Canadian teacher educators’ open educational practices: A post-intentional phenomenology

DRM - glossary item

Digital rights management (DRM) is a form of control applied to digital technologies in order to manage copyright access - usage, modifications, and/or distribution. Controls include forms of encryption, copying restrictions, tracking systems such as watermarks, and verification mechanisms such as product codes or activation limitations (Wikipedia, Digital Rights Management). 

For this research, DRM can impede the access and ability to remix materials for teaching and learning. One example is access to course readings through proprietary journal materials. DRM can challenge the open sharing of media and digitally enabled learning materials for the TEds interviewed. 

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