A Survey on Digital Rights Management in Distance Education

Authors

  • Singh AK Department of Computer Science, The University of Burdwan
  • Karforma S Department of Computer Science, The University of Burdwan
  • Mukhopadhyay S Department of Computer Science, The University of Burdwan

Keywords:

Distance Education (DE), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Abstract

The basic purpose of Distance Education (DE) is to provide quality education regardless of time and space for those who do not continue his/her education in traditional mode due to several reasons. In the digital era, DE uses Digital Rights Management (DRM) to promote quality teaching for all. DRM manages and protects any digital creation, in the education domain, it is used to protect and manage Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). There are many distance education system running around the globe and spreading the essence of quality teaching. In our survey we try to focus on DE, DRM, needs of DRM in DE and discuss some pioneer DE systems that use DRM worldwide and also propose a model DRMSDE for Distance Education system using DRM.

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Published

2025-11-24

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A. K. Singh, S. Karforma, and S. Mukhopadhyay, “A Survey on Digital Rights Management in Distance Education”, Int. J. Comp. Sci. Eng., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 78–81, Nov. 2025.

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): IJCSE Special Issue Jan Edition

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