Here is my plan for supporting and protecting a Digital Learning Community through Digital Rights and Responsibilities:
1.How can a DLC ensure that citizens within the community have access to an environment where an AUP protects members as well as the community itself, where individuals uphold laws, and a cooperative/collective venture provides robust, safe, and ethical resources and opportunities for learning? The DLC must promote the education of its digital citizens about DLC use so that they value an environment as described in the above prompt. Knowledge is power in terms of understanding and appreciating the importance of a safe on-line environment.
2.What is the best way to establish and maintain a flourishing DLC where citizens understand, observe, and are inclined to willingly support and ultimately benefit from Digital Rights and Responsibilities? The citizens and teachers must be active participants in on-going learning about ethical behavior in virtual environments. It is the DLC's responsibility to provide those opportunities for learning. Such experiences would include seminars on Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons.
3. Issue an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
The AUP for my imaginary DLC would be created by a team of educators, administrators, and students. This committee would meet each spring to evaluate the relevancy of the AUP for the ever changing virtual environment. The AUP would be distributed through the student handbook and would have a separate tear-out page for students and parents to sign as proof of their understanding of the policy. I've created an example of an AUP that such a committee would be likely to formulate based on suggestions at http://www.webwise.ie/teachers/sample-acceptable-use-policies-2/. My imaginary DLC in particular is a virtual school run at the state level that serves public school systems. Here it is:
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