Laura Quilter’s teaching

Laura Quilter is an accomplished educator, with the ability to translate technical and legal topics to any audience. She loves teaching, because it reflects her core philosophy — that knowledge should be shared, and that sharing knowledge empowers others. Laura primarily teaches in information law and public policy — particularly copyright and intellectual freedom. She supports librarians, educators, creators, independent media, non-profits, and activists. If you have an idea for a program that will benefit your community, reach out! If Laura can’t make the timing work, she will connect you to one of her excellent colleagues.

This is the website for Laura Quilter’s teaching materials. Laura is (slowly) migrating all her teaching materials to this site. All materials are CC-BY-NC licensed to support re-purposing of these materials by other educators and learners.

Laura has taught primarily along two topics :

(1) Internet and technical skills, since the early 1990s. Over the last decade, Laura’s technical teaching has focused primarily on Wikipedia — how to edit and why, particularly the gender, racial, & other disparities in the world’s pre-eminent general reference encyclopedia.

(2) Information law and policy, since the early 2000s. Including copyright and intellectual property more broadly, economics of intellectual property, intellectual freedom, telecommunications law, art law, media law, law for various creative communities, critical information law, etc.