1. The Right to Education Realizing the Potential of Digital Tools in Education Esther Wojcicki Chair, Creative Commons A2K4 Yale Law School February 12, 2010
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8. 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)
9. Many schools BLOCK student access to the Internet
10. 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
21. 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
22. CC helps Cultural barriers By allowing adaptation, OER can be repurposed and made culturally appropriate, even when originally developed for a specific cultural setting
32. 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.