Participate 4.1.1 Digital Rights and Responsibilities Quest

Participate 4.1.1 Digital Rights and Responsibilities Quest

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?

In order to ensure that the digital learning community is both ethical and legal, responsibility must be given to all members to monitor and enforce the rules.  No piracy should be allowed in any form, and any copyright infringement issues should be reported to the leader of the community.  Furthermore, the group should uphold professional norms and understand that inquiries about the ethical or legal nature of a posting does not immediately create guilt or merit defensive behavior.  Instead part of the monitoring of the community will require that the members have authentic and open discussions. 

 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 best way to ensure that the DLC flourishes is to present the standards of digital rights and responsibilities and make everyone in the learning community responsible for their enforcement.  In this manner the community becomes self-monitoring and can change violations of itself.  


 Reflect upon these questions and formulate a plan for supporting and protecting a Digital Learning Community through Digital Rights and Responsibilities. Afterward, post the plan in your blog.

I just came up with the following mnemonic to help foster ethical rights and responsibilities. 

C  =  Citation/copyright of all used materials needs to be help to the highest academic and legal standards. 
A  = All members of the community must be included in the monitoring of ethical behavior.  
F  = Freedom of all member of the community must be allowed so that all members feel able to ask and report possible ethical and/or legal violations. 
E =  Ethics need to be upheld in the community, and if there is any question of the ethics of any posting or resource it must be removed until the appropriate use is determine.