Like it isn't hard enough already for students to motivate themselves to go to class every day. I've thought about class notes, and I'd like to be all up in arms about it, but it doesn't bother me all that much. What does bother me is that the notes give students a false sense of security, that getting the notes is all they need to do. Coleman, who was not aware that her class notes were published on the Web, doesn't give much credit to the commercialized notes.
Students frequently get the wrong information, like misspellings.
Another CU professor who has had his lecture notes commercially published online without prior knowledge is biology professor Randolf Didomenico. I change my notes all the time. Most of the people who rely on the notes don't do well in my class. Didomenico has chosen to publish outlines of his lectures on his own Web site to complement his classes. He did not, however, have any knowledge of his notes being published elsewhere.