What: Course Hero purports to provide jobs taking class notes and tutoring other students, but is described as villanous by both workers and clients
From a technical perspective, an information system can be defined as a series of related components, which include: collect, process, store, and distributer information to assist managers to do decision and control organization. Information systems use input, processing and output to change raw data to practical information.
Request that students tell you if they find your information online. Share with students that posting information online may result in harder tests, at the detriment of an instructor’s time and a student’s grade. If the goal is to have students learn the subject, and looking at Course Hero helps, maybe it’s not such a bad thing after all?
Information is composed by processed data, which can be used or understood by people; Information systems literacy is broader, is a collection of the organizational, management, and technology dimensions of information systems. However, computer literacy pays more attention on knowledge of information technology.
Conceived by students at Cornell, Course Hero provides access to old tests, homework problems, textbook answers and class notes. It also offers the ability to form study groups where you can share files and exchange ideas. It’s basically a forum where you can put up old schoolwork you’ve done and see the old schoolwork of your peers from your own school and around the nation.
You can choose to study through the internet, or meet at a physical table and chairs on campus. In this way, Course Hero allows you to make connections with others who you can help, and who can help you.
One of the big problems with Course Hero is that if a student wants to cheat, the website offers all the tools they need to do so. It provides a temptation to students who are looking for exam answers and want to cheat in class.
You also can’t track who is using Course Hero. Often, notes are posted anonymously, so the individual who posted them cannot be tracked down. This means that it’s harder to punish those who are blatantly cheating or difficult to tell if the resources available can really be trusted.
Course Hero isn’t really free. While you can create an account for no cost, you can’t view anything until you pay in one of two ways: By posting materials (40 documents = 1 month free) By paying a monthly, 6 month, or yearly fee.