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Written by …might work for coffee… on 2024-12-06 at 07:44

My personal pet peeve with #academia starts to be how whatever shit and ToS is being used.

WhatsApp as communication channel becomes mandatory, look 10 no code tools that have same features but huge licenses that run in web? Use them!

Oh three classroom solutions for one course, but we need to add teams too and zoom. Because why should we have our own infrastructure or care about licenses

Everyone talks about sboms and license managing.

Just for fun, do this for your courses.

They mostly suck

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Written by …might work for coffee… on 2024-12-06 at 07:54

And mind you, nearly all unis have their stuff as well.

Often it lacks one feature or does not allow one external participant. And given accounts and stuff is a mess, external tools are being used and ToS mostly ignored.

GDPR? Oh you want the credit right?

Copyright? Oh right I quickly change see the template so it is not a stolen lecture from another uni (seen that, as tutor, hence knew the slides before the change)

Academia if you want to be taken serious, do play by the rules.

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Written by …might work for coffee… on 2024-12-06 at 07:56

You do not like the rules?

No problem! There are alternatives.

Create and host your tools.

Create and host your content. Yes it costs. But it is honest and resilient.

And yes it costs. It creates jobs for folks to help you. Do not externalize it. You do not dig a hole and dump your oil into it either, even if it is so easy.

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Written by …might work for coffee… on 2024-12-08 at 17:12

To make it perfectly clear, just because the tool does not ask for money it is not automatically ok to use and enforce it in academia.

And ffs hand out in the beginning all the tools and ToS that people need to use in your class. Else your teaching just sucks and you do not give a shit. No, you risk your teaching to fail because students have the right to not agree to ToS.

You are just leveraging your position of power and "no money, so ok" attitude on others.

Leave students their choice.

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