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Transcript of Yale A2 K4 The Right To Education
The Right to Education
Realizing the Potential of Digital Tools in Education
Esther WojcickiChair, Creative CommonsA2K4 Yale Law SchoolFebruary 12, 2010
A Vision for Digital Education in the US in K12
Digital Tools Enable•Curriculum Support for the teacher
•Online community support for the teacher
•Technology support in the classroom
•Dfferentiated instruction
•Distance learning
•Online collaborative learning
•24/7 opportunity to learn worldwide
Is Digital Education cost effective?
Yes, provided it is free and open
Is it more effective than classroom instruction?
No
The most effective is digital education + classroom instruction but it is not inexpensive
Is Digital Education more democratic?
Only If students have equal access to
• Open Educational Resources
• Web Literacy Training
• Broadband
• Functioning Hardware
Five Chief Barriers To Broadband Adoption Nationwide & Worldwide
•Affordability •Hardware•Digital technology literacy levels•Lack of awareness of relevance and utility of online content & OER•Inability to use existing technology•Linguistic barriers•Accreditation
ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES OF Open Education Resources (OER)
•OER is not a known name•Materials hard to find (metadata problem)•Uneven quality •Not tied to state or national standards
Copyright would be a major barrier to digital education if CREATIVE COMMONS licenses were not available.
Copyright is not as big an issue as
•Legal barriers
•Technological barriers
•Linguistic barriers
•Cultural barriers
Additional road blocks to digital education in U.S.
U.S. telecommunications policy
Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA)Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Many schools
BLOCK
student access to the Internet
CENSORSHIP “All schools that accept eRate money (and I don’t know
how many there are) filter, because they are required to in the eRate regulations”
Karen Cator, Director for Office of Educational Technology
The basis for censorship:
Many companies are in the business of censoring the web for schools
Even Google, Yahoo, and IE are blocked in many schools
ANOTHER MAJOR PROBLEM:
CONFUSION ABOUT DEFINITION OF
OPEN
This is all commercial licensing even though it looks like it is open.
This has one tier defined as CC-licensed and two as commercial.)
PEOPLE CONFUSE
OPENWITH
FREE
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING HELPS BUT DOES NOT SOLVE ALL
THE PROBLEMS
CC helps eliminate
Linguistic barriers - by allowing translation
CC Licenses Improve Technical Access
By Allowing reformatting and repackaging, OER can be made available to those with only low bandwidth or small screen access, even if OER was originally developed for high-bandwidth rich-UI users
CC helps Cultural barriers
By allowing adaptation, OER can be repurposed and made culturally appropriate, even when originally developed for a specific cultural setting
CC is tackling legal interoperability issues
for OER
CC is working on
interoperable OER metadata
•Essential for discovery of resources.
A FEW EXAMPLES OF
LICENSE USAGE
IN 119 COUNTRIES
BEGINNING OF THE eTEXTBOOK MOVEMENT
A concrete example of effective interoperable metadata
Creative Commons licensed downloads started in Feb 2009 with Stanford, Duke, UCtv, Berkeley, UCLA. More resources needed to add more universities. 300+ universities on YouTube.EDU right now.
OPEN MEANS HAPPY STUDENTS