Not Everyone’s Hero

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Not Everyone’s Hero
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/11/11
Short article mostly intended to expose and denounce Course Hero, an online learning platform that serves essentially as a homework and assignment help site. It focuses on unreliable assignments authored by users in Kenya, "contract cheating under the guise of student support," and of course accusations of copyright violations after tests and assignments were found posted on the site. More...