(SREB C.3, Varvel VII.A)

Everyone should have the right to learn:

Online learning has the potential to ensure that this right is a reality for a greater percentage of the world’s population than has ever been realizable before.

The provider should offer clear explanations of the privacy implications of students' choices.

Courses should encourage open participation and meaningful engagement with real audiences where possible, including peers and the broader public.

while working to educate students about the various ways they can protect and license their data and creative work.

Students have a right to know how their participation supports the financial health of the online system in which they are participating

Education is also about trust. Learning--not corporate profit--is the principal purpose of all education.

Play Open online education should inspire the unexpected, experimentation, and questioning--in other words, encourage play. Play allows us to make new things familiar, to perfect new skills, to experiment with moves and crucially to embrace change--a key disposition for succeeding in the 21st century. We must cultivate the imagination and the dispositions of questing, tinkering and connecting. We must remember that the best learning, above all, imparts the gift of curiosity, the wonder of accomplishment, and the passion to know and learn even more.