In a nutshell: A group of 12 educators, including prominent experts on online education, this week published a draft “A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age.”
The draft bill of rights for digital learners got the attention of the Chronicle of Higher Education:
‘Bill of Rights’ Seeks to Protect Students’ Interests as Online Learning Expands – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher EducationA dozen educators met last month in Palo Alto, Calif., to discuss the future of higher education. They had been convened at the epicenter of technological innovation in higher education by Sebastian Thrun, a pioneer of massive open online courses, and yet the task at hand had nothing to do with software or strategy.
via Chronicle
The proposal also received attention from Inside Higher Ed.
For some additional comment, see the following blog post by Ian Bogost, the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Open, New, Experimental, AspirationalThe rhetoric of “The Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age” – The Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age is a new document authored and signed by twelve scholars, technologists, and entrepreneurs including Duke professor and author Cathy Davidson, organizational technologist John Seely Brown, and Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun.
via Bogost