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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.94 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="online" -->
+<title>The Dangers of Proprietary Systems in Online Teaching
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen" />
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<div class="nav">
+<a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks">
+ <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
+ src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
+ title="Education Contents"
+ alt=" [Education Contents] " />
+</a>
+
+<p class="breadcrumb">
+ <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24"
+ alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> /
+ <a href="/education/education.html">Education</a> /
+ <a href="/education/resisting-proprietary-software.html">Resistance</a> /
+ <a
href="/education/dangers-of-proprietary-systems-in-online-teaching.html">Online
teaching</a> /</p>
+</div>
+
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#if expr="$OUTDATED_SINCE" --><!--#else -->
+<!--#if expr="$LANGUAGE_SUFFIX" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="no" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<!--#endif -->
+<!--#endif -->
+
+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
+
+<h2>The Dangers of Proprietary Systems in Online Teaching</h2>
+
+<p>Since March 2019, educational institutions all over the world have
+been forced to migrate their daily activities to online teaching due
+to the COVID-19 sanitary emergency. For many schools, this constituted
+a first important step towards digitalization. However, the
+transition to <strong>remote teaching has brought an unwelcome guest:
+nonfree software</strong>.</p>
+
+
+<p>Most of the software that is being adopted, like video conferencing
+programs and Learning Management Systems (LMS), are proprietary
+software used by software development companies as weapons against
+students' and teachers' fundamental rights to computer freedom and
+privacy. These programs are the antithesis of education since they
+forbid the sharing of knowledge and are specifically designed to
+prevent it. <strong>There should be no place for nonfree software in
+educational environments</strong>.</p>
+
+<p><a
+href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">Freedom-respecting software</a> is
+readily available for all activities in the digital classroom and
+should be chosen instead of their proprietary counterparts.</p>
+
+<p>Follow the links below to learn more.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a
+href="/education/teachers-help-students-resist-zoom.html">Teachers:
+Help Your Students Resist Zoom</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>See how people are <a
+href="/education/successful-resistance-against-nonfree-software.html">
+successfully resisting nonfree software</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+<!--#include virtual="/education/education-menu.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
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+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
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+</p>
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+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
+</body>
+</html>
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--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.94 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="online" -->
+<title>Teachers: Help Your Students Resist Zoom
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen" />
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<div class="nav">
+<a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks">
+ <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
+ src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
+ title="Education Contents"
+ alt=" [Education Contents] " />
+</a>
+
+<p class="breadcrumb">
+ <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24"
+ alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> /
+ <a href="/education/education.html">Education</a> /
+ <a href="/education/resisting-proprietary-software.html">Resistance</a> /
+ <a
href="/education/dangers-of-proprietary-systems-in-online-teaching.html">Online
teaching</a> /</p>
+</div>
+
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#if expr="$OUTDATED_SINCE" --><!--#else -->
+<!--#if expr="$LANGUAGE_SUFFIX" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="no" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<!--#endif -->
+<!--#endif -->
+
+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
+
+<h2>Teachers: Help Your Students Resist Zoom</h2>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<p>Today more than ever, technology has become an instrument of
+surveillance and oppression that can only be fought back
+by empowering citizens with the ability to inspect and control the
+software they use. It is the responsibility of all educational
+institutions to provide the means to that end by teaching and
+installing only <a
+href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free/libre software</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Zoom, a proprietary online conferencing program that is becoming
+more and more dangerously popular, is an example of such harmful
+technology. No educational institution should ever use it.</p>
+
+<p>Please don't force students to install Zoom on their computers, or
+to use its web version.</p>
+
+<h3 id="to-all-teachers">To all those teaching remote classes with
+Zoom</h3>
+
+<p>It is unfortunate that you are using Zoom, a nonfree program that
+spies on users and takes away your students' computer freedom, along
+with your own. By using Zoom, students are dependent on a software
+they cannot inspect, study or change. Their freedom to learn about
+technology and how it works is destroyed.</p>
+
+<p>If you use Zoom, some students might decide to continue using it
+beyond your classes, effectively surrendering their privacy over
+communication, and would hence miss on the opportunity to learn how to
+keep control of their data and computing.</p>
+
+<p>There are better programs you can use for teaching remote classes,
+free/libre programs like <a
+href="https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/";>Jitsi</a> or <a
+href="https://bigbluebutton.org/";>BigBlueButton</a>. By choosing these
+programs you are enabling motivated students to learn about the
+software they use everyday, and some of them one day will be able to
+adapt it to their needs, serving a larger community. Those who will
+not pursue such curiosity, will still benefit from using a software
+that respects their freedoms and doesn't spy on them.</p>
+
+<p>Choosing free software for your classes will positively impact
+life-long learning, a crucial skill for any student. In fact, students
+will learn that it is in their power to run, study, modify and share
+any free software they wish, according to their own curiosity and
+needs. In contrast, by adopting proprietary software, students are
+taught to become mere consumers of a user interface, with no power
+over the technology they are using.</p>
+
+<p>If you independently opted for using Zoom in your classes, we urge
+you to switch to software that respects your students' and your
+freedom.</p>
+
+<p>If Zoom was imposed on you by your school's administration, we
+recommend you to contact them and ask to drop Zoom in favour of a free
+program. Ask other teachers for help, and explain why software freedom
+is paramount for education.</p>
+
+<h3 id="last-resort">Last resort</h3>
+
+<p>If you really can't remove Zoom, we propose this temporary
+workaround only as a last resort to help your students avoid using
+Zoom in the short term. We do not recommend it as a stable, long-term
+solution.</p>
+
+<ol>
+ <li>A day or two before the class, post the visual materials for
+each day in some freedom-respecting way, so students can download
+them.Any simple old-fashioned web site is suitable for this.</li>
+
+ <li>Encourage students to phone the Zoom server; tell them the phone
+number and the code for the conversation. That way they can listen to
+the audio of the session, while they follow the visual materials
+alongside.</li>
+
+ <li>Tell them that you regret the use of Zoom and show them which
+are the free programs to replace it. Explain <a
+href="/education/edu-why.html">why</a> proprietary software such as
+Zoom has no place in schools (and in any other aspect of life.) You
+could take this opportunity and talk about free software, and why <a
+href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">software
+freedom is even more important today</a>.</li>
+
+ <li>Make a recording of the Zoom conversation for each session, and
+post it in a freedom-respecting way soon after that session ends.</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>If there were situations in which this solution is not feasible,
+such as examinations, and students refuse to use Zoom, then you, as a
+teacher, could set up a different meeting in parallel or an
+alternative exam session using one of the free programs mentioned
+above. Or you could provide a computer in your school with Zoom
+installed, and ask the student to join the exam using that computer.
+That way, the student won't be forced to install non-free software on
+their computer, and the use of Zoom will be limited to the exam. If
+you opt for this choice, we recommend the school computer to run a
+<a
+href="/distros/free-distros.html">free software distribution</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Simply by telling students about this possibility, which you can do
+more than once, you will help inspire <a
+href="/education/resisting-proprietary-software.html">resistance</a>
+to Zoom and other freedom-trampling programs, and avoid inculcating
+surrender.</p>
+
+<p>You will still be using Zoom, which is deleterious for your
+freedom. Some of your students will probably still be using Zoom,
+which is deleterious for their freedom. But, thanks to your efforts,
+some of them will avoid using Zoom.</p>
+
+<p>Please note that the workarounds we suggest here are only meant as
+a short-term solution to help teachers react quickly to oppose the use
+of nonfree software for remote lectures rather than deferring to the
+new academic year. In the long-term, it is crucial to migrate to
+free/libre software and online conferencing programs like Jitsi and
+BigBlueButton.</p>
+
+<p>All software and technology as a whole must be free, and this is a
+small step towards that goal. <a
+href="/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html">Saying <em>NO</em> to
+unjust computing even once is progress</a>.</p>
+
+<p>See examples of how people are <a
+href="/education/successful-resistance-against-nonfree-software.html">
+successfully resisting nonfree software</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+</div>
+<!--#include virtual="/education/education-menu.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
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+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org";><gnu@gnu.org></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org";><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
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+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
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+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
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+
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+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
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+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2020/11/08 19:19:57 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
+</body>
+</html>
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