[Smt-talk] Course (anti)Hero

[Dave Headlam]

For those of you who want to check out the site without joining, I believe
this works (let me know if it doesn't -- I joined, and got a cookie, but
then deleted all cookies ( preferences in your browser) and  then tried the
following successfully:)

1.  shut off cookies in your browser (if you really want to be anonymous)

2.  type in the following URLs one at a time (hit return and check it out)

http://www.coursehero.com/keyword/american-popular-music/
http://www.coursehero.com/keyword/music-theory/
http://www.coursehero.com/keyword/jazz-styles/
http://www.coursehero.com/keyword/music-history/

To see an example of their offerings.

Dave Headlam

P.s.  They may have sniffed me out some other way, so someone let me know if
they did the above and it worked -- in other words, you got in anonymously.

Ppss:  If you really don't want anything to do with the site but are
curious, wear gloves and a mask, go to your library, and do the above on a
public computer, then go home by a different route and have a bath in tomato
juice. 



On 7/7/10 11:30 PM, "kos at panix.com" <kos at panix.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Buchler <mbuchler at fsu.edu> warned:
> 
>> I was naturally curious and found that Course Hero was selling access to
>> about a dozen documents written by one of my colleagues.
> 
> I was curious too, so I quickly registered at Course Hero:
> http://www.coursehero.com
> 
> Once I found the music section I had a look, and burst out laughing.  So many
> colleges and universities are represented - and it seems like every student
> for the past 5 years has uploaded every single homework assignment they ever
> had.  There's an amazingly enormous amount of information (i.e. papers
> and notes) here!
> 
> I don't feel so bad about my own teaching - not only because my school was not
> represented, but because in addition to musical notations, I insist that every
> student turn in a weekly summary of what went on in the class, not just the
> issues raised (different each year), but the specific ways in which we dealt
> with them (also different each year).  Because every class is different, I
> feel 
> pretty confident that the uniqueness of the discussion pretty much precludes
> the possibility of getting students' work from previous years (although I do
> try to alter the content each time I teach it).
> 
> It does suggest that College 2.0 has to be different from what we've being
> previously/currently doing.  Any kind of course where a student could
> presumably 
> pass by obtaining previous years' homework is no longer going to work.  The
> teacher must really think up assignments where the work is unique and the
> student won't benefit by copying previously written work.  Nowadays students
> are much more collaborative - so why not create groups that are graded
> collectively (say a group of 4-5, and everyone has to accept the grade).
> 
> Just a few ideas of the top of my head.  I know there are many sites like
> Course 
> Hero.  It seems like there should be more organization among academics to come
> up with ways to counter the networking of homework assignments.
> 
> 
> Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
> Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
> blog:  http://www.nypl.org/blog_user/44   Twitter: @kos2
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