This page describes an effort to automate the process of watermarking course material with unique identifiers to discourage the unwanted distribution of faculty-created documents by students and others. In my opinion this is a reasonable measure to counter existing problems with And, in the context of sharing of course material between instructors, it provides a […]
Piracy of professor-authored teaching material is rampant. I've written about it before. Students and teaching staff have uploaded my material to Course Hero and I'm not happy about it. In spite of requesting that they don't do it, they still do it. I write explicit footnotes in my documents saying not to do it, and […]
One of my teaching assistants uploaded my instructional material to Course Hero without my permission. It didn't take me long to figure out who it was. I only had a handful of TAs and the TA used their university user ID as their Course Hero login. When I confronted the TA about it, the TA […]