Patricia Aufderheide

Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of Communication at American University. Among her many published works are Communication Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press) and Reclaiming Fair Use (with Peter Jaszi, University of Chicago Press). She has been a Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, and has won the International Communication Association's Communication Research as an Agent of Change Award.
For teachers who work across national borders, copyright and licensing restrictions can create barriers that prevent them from doing their work. This affects the quality of instruction, and also impedes the growth of global learning strategies that otherwise have the potential to lower the North/South gap in educational access.
Copyright problems impede cross-border teachingThis study investigates how clashing copyright regimes affect the work of cross-border teaching in higher education. It explores constraints on pedagogy both from copyright policies at the national level and from conflicts between regimes internationally. As the recent pandemic demonstrated, and as previous research has shown, pedagogy requires flexibility that...