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Posting a scan of textbook online? [duplicate]
I am about to teach a one semester course whose syllabus covers two semesters of materials to say the least. (I am trying to change the syllabus, but it is another complicated issue and wont be done ...
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Do instructors make all the necessary (bulk amount of) images on their own for tutorial purposes?
I am an instructor for a machine learning course and I need to make a presentation on all the recent architectures or models. I have to include a lot of images from several research papers and need to ...
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Could lecturing from a textbook constitute copyright infringement?
If a course instructor closely follows a textbook when delivering a lecture (e.g. even listing the subsection they're discussing) could they be in violation of copyright law? What if they upload the ...
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Sharing set of exercises in a textbook (the morally right way?)
This is possibly a more general question about copyright, but I think I can specify this question into question about teaching, especially on STEM subjects. I don't know exactly whether I should post ...
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(Soft question?) Sharing knowledge to students, what are the limits?
I am an undergraduate lecturer. I have been bothered by this question lately.
I never and never want to claim that what I know, or even what I discover, is mine. Also, things that I discover, small ...
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Can I copyright materials I developed if it was asked to be written by the school I'm working at?
I'm a teacher in a private school and was asked by the school to develop lesson plans for an existing text book.
Eventually that's going to be a manual for the teachers to use for that specific text ...
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How do I use potentially copyrighted images in my course material? [duplicate]
I teach at a school and I create PowerPoint presentations to use in my classroom. I also need to upload the PowerPoints to my school website for my students to access. Access is restricted and ...
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As a professor, can I copy exercises / problems from a textbook without referencing the source? [duplicate]
In creating a final exam for my course, I would like to use problems from a textbook that I did not assign to the course. Do I need to reference the source on the final exam paper or is it not ...
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Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software
I'm taking a course named Numerical and Computational Methods Based on Mathematica (Or in Chinese: "基于Mathematica的数值计算方法"), but Wolfram Mathematica is a bit expensive for me to afford. On the first ...
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Retyping some material to obscure source of a textbook with a solution manual?
This is my first time teaching mathematics. I've been giving lessons based on a certain textbook which contains excellent exercises (not just the exercises, but the order in which they appear leads ...
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Copyright for lectures, slides and textbook: university or professor?
I'll be starting as an adjunct professor soon at a smaller university, and I'm starting to prepare lectures and slides for teaching there.
In the future, I'm also thinking of publishing a textbook ...
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A student posted my lab materials as a "project" on Instructables, and hid its origin as a lab assignment. How should I address this?
TLDR: A student posted my lab assignment as a “project” on Hackster.io and Instructables. His posts hide its origin as a lab assignment, in which a lot of the materials (texts, circuit diagram and ...
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What can I do with a book summary?
I finished reading a textbook of about 250 pages. For my personal reference, I created a summary in note form of about 30 pages. Formulations are close to the original text with some variation on my ...
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