The exponential rise of academic resource-sharing websites has enormously impacted both conventional and online education. This course highlights their positive traits and also the challenges they encounter. First, you'll discover the evolution of ARS sites, such as Quizlet, Course Hero and Chegg. We then explore educational benefits for students, including digital literacy skills, increased ownership over their learning processes, and global accessibility.

After that, we delve into the ethical challenges in ARS engagement while investigating the strict policies about proper use to maintain academic integrity and reduce misconduct risks. Following that, we explore privacy, copyright, instructor consent issues, and the best practices for avoiding breaches of intellectual property. Plagiarism, patchwriting, remix culture, and positive consequentialist approaches, like emphasizing the necessity of proper referencing style in achieving a higher grade, are discussed next.

The course concludes by describing the strategies for fostering ethical and responsible use of academic resource-sharing platforms. We investigate the optimal methods for allowing students to learn autonomously from ARS sites while adhering to scholastic honesty rules and intellectual property rights. The last topic you'll study is the teachers’ crucial function in effectively conveying institutional policies. This course teaches students and educators how to use ARS sites productively and responsibly.