<div><div dir="ltr"><div>Tamara Kneese - who studies digital life after death - wrote "<a href="https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/dead-professor-teaching-online-class.html" target="_blank">How a Dead Professor Is Teaching a University Art History Class</a>" a couple days earlier. It seems like Bartlett's last point is actually almost exactly what Kneese said in her article!</div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 1:43 PM Richard Wheeler <<a href="mailto:richarduwheeler@gmail.com" target="_blank">richarduwheeler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://community.chronicle.com/news/2479-dead-man-teaching" target="_blank">https://community.chronicle.com/news/2479-dead-man-teaching</a></div><div><br></div><div>"During one of those recent lectures, a question occurred to Ansuini that
he wanted to follow-up on with the professor. He was eager to learn
more about a particular example the professor had used. So he paused the
video on his laptop and Googled the professor’s name in order to find
his email — that seemed quicker than hunting around for the syllabus on
his desktop. What he found instead was an obituary. At first he assumed
it must be for someone else with the same name. In fact, no:
François-Marc Gagnon, an art-history professor at Montreal’s Concordia
University, had passed away in 2019 at age 83. Turns out Ansuini’s
favorite new professor was dead."</div><div><br></div><div>"As an academic himself, Yakir did wonder about the intellectual-property
implications. Now that his father is gone, who owns the rights to that
work? The university wasn’t quick to provide information on that score. A
spokeswoman said professors are compensated for recording their
lectures but didn’t offer further details (she also said that Gagnon’s
biography in the course description would be “updated”). For instance,
are they compensated every time the course is offered?"</div><div><br></div><div>What a perfect "maintenance-free" setup for academic administrators: use lectures from dead professors without compensation to their estate, run the class with lowly-paid instructors and TAs who don't even realize that they are supporting a dead lead professor, and charge students full tuition.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Richard Wheeler<br><span><font style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="mailto:richarduwheeler@gmail.com" target="_blank">richarduwheeler@gmail.com</a></font></span><br></div></div></div></div>
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