What ... to do? Post the offender's name and site to a public forum such as TIPS?
"Tollefsrud, Linda" wrote: > What would we do if one of our students did something similar? I > cant help but compare this to the recent threads about the student > who turned in the lost-in-the-mail late paper, and the students who > copied one reference (a mere few lines) from an email discussion > board. Here we have a colleague who copies an ENTIRE course. For all > we know, this individual is tough on student cheaters, while > plagiarizing someone elses course preparation. > > Sigh. What is an academician to do? There must be some mechanism for > being at least as tough on our colleagues as we are on our students. > > Linda Tollefsrud, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology > > University of Wisconsin - Barron County > > 1800 College Drive > > Rice Lake, WI 54868 > > (715) 234 8176 ext. 5417 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Claudia Stanny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 1:01 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] Intellectual Property > A colleague of mine was revising his Power Point slides for a class he > teaches. He was curious about whether the spelling of an unusual term > he used in his slides was correct and decided to Google the term. The > Google search brought up a link to his Power Point slides posted on > the web site of a doctoral candidate at another university. The slides > had been minimally altered (his name was removed, some minor graphics > were removed and others were added). The verbal content was not > altered and all of the slides were reproduced without attribution. The > slides were presented as this persons slides for a course that he was > teaching. > > Im curious about your thoughts as to how my colleague should respond > to this use of his material. He has written to the individual and > pointed out that a request for permission to use the material might > have been in order. > > I think this raises some issues about protecting our course materials > as intellectual property. We are in danger of this sort of pilfering > if we post materials to our personal web sites. If we load these into > secure sites such as WebCT, Blackboard, or D2L, our universities think > of them as theirs. What is an academician to do? > > Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. > > Associate Professor, Psychology > > Interim Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and > Assessment > > University of West Florida > > Pensacola, FL 32514 5751 > > Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > > ttp://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl > enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- ----------==========>>>>>>>>>> ¨¨¨ <<<<<<<<<<==========---------- Sometimes you just have to try something, and see what happens. John W. Nichols, M.A. Assistant Professor of Psychology Tulsa Community College 909 S. Boston Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119 (918) 595-7134 Home: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols MegaPsych: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/megapsych.html --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
