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Oh man, back in my university it was the teachers themselves who provided the pirated materials. In Humanities it was the full scanned books, in STEM at least t
by drowsspa 3y ago
Oh man, back in my university it was the teachers themselves who provided the pirated materials. In Humanities it was the full scanned books, in STEM at least they always scanned at least the exercises so it wouldn't be necessary to get the specific edition.
- gnicholas 3y agoSometimes this is done via course pack, which is handled by the university/library/bookstore. The course packs aren't free, and the cost goes to printing the materials and also royalty payments where necessary. Some profs may electronically distribute materials separately, which would likely sidestep both of these costs.
- cafard 3y agoYes, about 1990 one could show up at a copy shop on Rte. 1 in College Park, Maryland, mention course number and section, and get a fat stack of photocopied material. I believe that I purchased the ones I did during the last year or two such such packs were available: after that, the publishers leaned on schools to make the professors stop providing them.
- irrational 3y agoI finished my undergraduate in 1998 and graduate school in 2000. Our university was still using photocopied course packets (that we purchased in the campus bookstore) that entire time.
- susiecambria 3y agoThe only course packet I can remember buying in grad school (social work at Howard) was for data (which makes me chuckle given where I'm posting this). The packet had a ton of articles and that material was in addition to a text book or two, as I recall.