On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Rich Jones <[email protected]> > > For now, we're keeping LectureLeaks strictly legal, so I don't think > we'll need to move it to Sweden. Yet. :) > > We'd much rather have professors simply agree to let their courses > continue being online rather than start an online copyright battle > with people who are just trying to teach.
Very psyched to see this project getting off the ground! As someone occasionally in the role of the lecturer, I want to also share three concerns that come to mind... 1. Ours is a noble cause but the history of secret classroom recordings is not entirely a proud one. In recent memory, some teachers have been attacked and harassed because of surreptitious recordings leaked by students. This has been especially troublesome in classes that discuss "hot topics" like evolution and socialism. * http://christianexaminer.blogspot.com/2011/02/student-sues-teacher-goes-to-ninth.html * http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/02/caught_on_tape_for_better_or_w.html * http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2010/10/are-your-students-secretly-recording-you-.html * http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/03/cell-phone-came.html 2. Ideally, the classroom is a safe space for students and teachers to take risks, ask questions that others might call "dumb", and share bits of their personal lives. If students think they are being secretly recorded, I'm afraid they'll be less forthcoming in class discussion. This chilling effect pits the learning experience of in-class students to the potential value of OER. 3. A small complaint about the name: I get the connection to WikiLeaks but feel like it sets up an oppositional relationship between the student-user and the lecturer. Is this a concern? Or is the project primarily student-focused and reaching out to faculty is not a priority? All that being said, my favorite part of this project is that it EXISTS. Better to work on the boat after setting sail than to never leave the harbor! (Plus, I'm looking forward to reading a lengthy comment thread on the Chronicle of Higher Ed blog!) Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
