Updated July 11, 2024
CASE NETWORK TERMS OF SERVICE
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1EdTech Consortium hereby grants a User or Registered User (“Licensee”) a worldwide, royalty-free, nontransferable, nonexclusive, nonsublicensable license to utilize the Global Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) pointing to Academic Standards and other Materials in the CASE Network provided the Licensee preserves and exposes the 1EdTech provided GUIDs in their entirety in any product that utilizes the GUIDs. The GUIDs may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the CASE Network Service.
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Materials Adoption Status
The CN2 uses the following adoption statuses for designating the accuracy of all materials issued through CASE Network:
Draft frameworks are still being edited (or still being reviewed for further possible edits).
Therefore, viewers/consumers of a Draft framework should assume that some elements of the framework may change in the future.
Adopted frameworks have been deemed complete and ready for general use by the issuer of the learning standards represented in the framework.
An Adopted framework should thus be considered the “single source of truth” for the standards in digital form.
An Adopted framework should only be changed in the future in the event that errors are discovered and corrected. In particular, the GUIDs for items in the framework should not change once the framework has reached its Adopted phase.
Proposed frameworks are out of Draft mode—that is, the author of the framework believes it to be complete and accurate—but in this case the author of the framework is not the issuer of the learning standards represented in the framework.
Viewers/consumers of Proposed frameworks should take into account that the issuing agency for the standards represented in the framework have not officially endorsed the framework as the official source of truth for the standards.
Check the “notes” or “description” metadata on a Proposed framework document for details on the origin of a Proposed framework.
Deprecated frameworks have been “retired” for some reason or another by the author of the framework.
Often, a framework is marked as Deprecated when a new version of the standards represented in the framework have been published.
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