Comments on: Open sourcing homework http://johnthomson.org/blog/2009/06/12/open-sourcing-homework Thoughts on the social impacts of information and communication technology policy. Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: john http://johnthomson.org/blog/2009/06/12/open-sourcing-homework/comment-page-1#comment-5261 john Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:45:37 +0000 http://johnthomson.org/blog/?p=459#comment-5261 Sorry not to go into more depth on the copyright issue. From what I can gather from the <a href="http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/06/10/how-i-won-a-copyfight/" rel="nofollow">student's description of events</a>, a bit of sharing of the homework assignment text was in question. Since it's pretty well understood that the student owns the copyright in his answer, the issue seemed to turn more on the issue of academic integrity. Though, it appears that <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/16/computer" rel="nofollow">others have a different opinion</a>. Sorry not to go into more depth on the copyright issue. From what I can gather from the student’s description of events, a bit of sharing of the homework assignment text was in question. Since it’s pretty well understood that the student owns the copyright in his answer, the issue seemed to turn more on the issue of academic integrity. Though, it appears that others have a different opinion.

]]> By: Doug http://johnthomson.org/blog/2009/06/12/open-sourcing-homework/comment-page-1#comment-5260 Doug Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:12:59 +0000 http://johnthomson.org/blog/?p=459#comment-5260 Thanks for posting this. My favorite quote from the article: "assignments are ultimately more valuable to the students when the work that they produce can have broader purpose than merely fulfilling academic requirements." John - a question for you: Why wasn't copyright mentioned here? Is it true that students have copyright privileges over the work they produce as a class, and can then publish it in any way they choose? Thanks for posting this. My favorite quote from the article: “assignments are ultimately more valuable to the students when the work that they produce can have broader purpose than merely fulfilling academic requirements.”

John – a question for you: Why wasn’t copyright mentioned here? Is it true that students have copyright privileges over the work they produce as a class, and can then publish it in any way they choose?

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