Universities raise concerns over note-sharing website

Academics and administration officials at Concordia and McGill universities are raising concerns over Course Hero, a note-sharing website for students which boasts more than just notes, reports CBC News.

The US-based company now has an online presence covering Canadian campuses from Memorial University of Newfoundland to the University of British Columbia. Looking at only a few of its hundreds of pages, CBC Montreal Investigates found 35 chapters lifted from textbooks, and 56 professors' presentations.

"I'm disappointed," said Saif Ullah, a finance teacher at Concordia University, when CBC showed him that slides he prepared for lectures wound up on the site without his knowledge or consent. "It's not their job to take the university's materials and to post them online," Ullah said.
Full report on the CBC News site