The end of the educational DVD

DVDs have just gone the way of chalkboards, radio broadcasts and paper journals as teachers embrace downloading.
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DVDs have just gone the way of chalkboards, radio broadcasts and paper journals as teachers embrace downloading.


The majority of educational institutions in Australia have a Screenrights license and until now have bought DVDs through EnhanceTV, a part of Screenrights, which is a non-profit organisation that licenses educational institutions to copy television programs for educational purposes. Teachers buy everything from dramatisations of Jane Austen for literature class to documentaries on genetics for undergraduate science

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Esther Levy-Fenner
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Esther Levy-Fenner is a Melbourne journalist.