Educational Technology

David Alexander wasn’t shocked when he heard last week that notes from his anatomy lectures were for sale on the internet. At the same time, he wasn’t OK with it. “It looks like I’m going to have to go back to putting on my syllabi that my lecture notes are copyrighted and I don’t want people selling them,” said Alexander, an associate scientist in KU’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. “It’s one thing if you’re providing notes to a friend who was sick, but it’s something else to profit on what is essentially someone else’s intellectual property.” Multiple students’ versions of Biology 240 notes are among hundreds if not thousands of pages of KU class notes for sale on for-profit websites that encourage students to upload their own notes to make money and download other students’ notes to study. Hundreds of KU class notes for sale online, but buyer — and seller — beware.  http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/mar/28/hundreds-ku-class-notes-sale-online-buyer-and-sell/