What’s happening with net neutrality, and what does it mean for education?
To find out I’m devoting this Thursday’s Future Trends Forum to a conversation with Jarret Cummings. Jarret is the director of Policy and Government Relations at EDUCAUSE, and probably the world’s leading expert on what the end of net neutrality means for learning and campuses.
To prepare for the session, or just to learn about the topic, here are some relevant readings:
- Cummings’ recent EDUCAUSE Review blog post about the higher education and libraries amicus brief in the case before the DC Circuit.
- An Ars Technica update on where net neutrality now stands.
- A web page from the National Conference of State Legislatures about state net neutrality initiatives.
- A post from the Benton Foundation nicely summarizing “Opening Day for the litigation appealing the Federal Communications Commission’s December 2017 network neutrality decision.”
- A January discussion hosted by EdSurge on what net neutrality’s demise means for educators.
We hosted Jarret this past January, where he patiently and generously introduced the topic:
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Previous posts on this topic:
I’m looking forward to talking with Bryan Alexander and FTF participants shortly about continuing net neutrality developments. In the meantime, I wanted to share a post from Harold Feld, Public Knowledge’s resident net neutrality expert, about how the recent Verizon throttling case affecting California firefighters illustrates exactly what the Pai FCC got wrong in repealing net neutrality rules:
http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/verizon-california-throttling-mistake-shows-how-radical-pais-repeal-order-really-was/
That was quite a story. I was wondering if it counted for net neutrality purposes.