![]() In 2021, in addition to buying the well-known literature short-cut outfit Cliff’s Notes, Course Hero bought the less well-known QuillBot. If you’re stuck, snap a photo and get the answer.Īnd, getting answers in minutes is especially helpful considering that:Ĭourse Hero bought an AI-powered paraphrasing tool last year. It’s also interesting that when I asked my question, Course Hero’s site said, “Your information will not be shared or made public.” Seems like an odd stance for a “tutor.”Īnyway, like Chegg and other answers-for-money services, the Course Hero feature is particularly handy if you’re taking an un-proctored online exam, especially one with a lenient time limit. Using Course Hero is not considered to be cheating. In about ten minutes a “tutor” sent me a 381-word response that starts: I used the service to ask whether using Course Hero was cheating. They say you can “receive answers and explanations in as few as 30 minutes.” The first five questions are even free. It now uses the Chegg model of providing rapid answers to anyone who can type or take a photo of a question with their phones. Ĭourse Hero will have “tutors” answer academic questions in minutes.Ĭourse Hero is no longer just a file sharing site. You can find out how to do that right here. Many - probably most - have no idea.Ĭourse Hero says it will remove material protected by copyrights. The point is that Course Hero is selling the work of thousands of professors from thousands of schools. And it’s possible that Professor Burt sold her papers to Course Hero or gave them permission to profit from her work. I can’t see that document unless I pay Course Hero. When I tossed Professor Burt’s name in Course Hero, the very first document that pops up is an “anthology” that says “copyright 2017 by Stephanie Burt” but there are several others. You can also search Course Hero for professors’ names by using the search bar at the top of the Course Hero site.įor fun, I went over to the Harvard College website, which has a section of nice professor profiles. They are test questions, assignments, class syllabi and study guides - the intellectual property of professors or colleges that, in many cases, have not given permission for their material to be shared online or sold for profit. ![]() It has 189,965 from the University of Michigan, 23,508 from Georgetown University and 8,976 from CalTech and so on.Īnd while it’s impossible to say exactly how many of those “resources” are copyright protected, a good many are. Ĭourse Hero has, for example, 278,999 “resources” from the University of Florida. There are a few things about Course Hero that you should know however.ĭid you know that you can look up how many “study resources” Course Hero has for your school? The link to do that is right here. According to the published agenda, Stommel was a featured speaker at a 2021 Course Hero event (see Issue 29 or Issue 44 ).Īgain, seems like a perfect fit if you ask me.Ĭheating facilitator Course Hero has repeatedly said it is not a cheating site (see Issue 90 ). One of those colleagues mentioned in the story as defending Morris was Jesse Stommel. The final note from the story is that it says:Ĭlose colleagues defended Morris on social media this week. I guess the talking point is that since people cheated before, there’s no reason to pay attention to the billion-dollar companies that now sell cheating at unprecedented scale. Then there's always a fear of cheating.Ĭheating was an issue before, so … I don’t know. They'll just be able to Google it and find out.’Īnd there was a huge fear around, around cheating. … And I remember when the internet became much more available to everybody, educators saying, ‘The students will look at any answers they need. Of course, you know, this was an issue before the internet. When EdSurge asked Morris about cheating with Course Hero, he answered, in part, Someone who hates proctoring and plagiarism-detection seems perfectly suited to work for a cheating provider, if you ask me. My focus has primarily been on things like learning management systems and proctoring services and plagiarism-detection services and that sort of thing One, in case we were not clear about how well he fits in with Course Hero, Morris said, In any case, EdSurge has a new summary and interview with Morris, in which they admirably ask him about Course Hero’s connection to cheating.Ī few things from that article. So, his joining Course Hero - that checks out (see Issue 90 ). ![]() Well, more notably, Morris is a critic of anti-cheating technology such as remote exam proctoring and plagiarism detection software. Major cheating company Course Hero made news in education circles recently when it hired Sean Michael Morris, a known critic of education technology.
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