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It's a risk a lot of people are willing to take.' 'You're putting faith in somebody else's work. It almost forms a free study sheet for you,' said Beagen. 'Sometimes it just helps to read somebody else's notes to get a different perspective on the class. The quality of the notes wasn't an issue for Beagen - a close friend was taking them. Ryan Beagen, a 22-year-old UM student from Shrewsbury, N.J., has logged onto Versity's Web site to review notes for his marketing class. All for free! ' reads the ad in UM's school newspaper, the Diamondback. offers free class lecture notes, local content, contests, and other cool services to college students. And the Internet has turned the practice into a commercial phenomenon.Īt the University of Maryland, 's ads can be found tacked to kiosks, chalked on sidewalks and distributed in classrooms. Sharing notes is one thing, professors say. In medical and law schools, lecture notes from past years are available to new students. Fraternities and sororities often keep file cabinets of class notes, old quizzes and past exams for their new members.

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The business of providing college class notes to students - for a fee or for free - is a decades-old practice. In California, a bill in the state legislature would ban the use of lecture material from a state or community college without the instructor's permission. They are not doing it to help the students. 'To have a company come in try to make a fast buck is a slap at higher education.

'The Web is a wonderful teaching tool, but it should only be done with the approval and direction of the faculty instructor,' said John Sandbrook, an assistant provost at UCLA's College of Letters and Science.

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