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H.R. 275, The Global Online Freedom Act of 2007
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Ken Udas
I lead an organization that offers distance education to learners in a number of countries. Our principal mode of delivery is online. I am wondering if H.R. 275 would cover a situation in which a government actor of an “Internet-restricting country” requested the identity of a student or faculty member who produced content within an online course, even if it were legally acceptable to do so in a face-to-face/residential course? For example, materials posted to a discussion forum, published in a course blog or wiki, or a paper or other project stored in the learning management system were requested. If anybody has a thought about this, it would be great.
Ken Udas
I recently made a blog posting on Terra Incognita (http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu) titled “The Global Online Freedom Act of 2007 and Open Education.” Terra Incognita is an education related blog that has focused on open source software (OSS), open educational resources (OER). In the posting I provided a bit of background and then posed the following questions:
1) Would this type of legislation (H.R. 275) be useful to educators?
2) Would it potentially serve as a means to free up OER for use in various countries?
3) Does it address fundamental access issues that are precursors for Open Education?
4) More pragmatically, does it potentially pose interesting questions for US universities who partner with universities in foreign countries that require “location of personally identifiable information” of students or faculty, wish to filter content, or block Internet sites?
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