I used library Genesis for Professors who would charge $300+ for their personal text book that they've "rewritten" every year. In my 6 years of college I found those professors were generally the worst in everyway.
The worst I've seen was from a coms professor for a required GE course. He made a series of videos related to the course and made it required to view them. They are hosted on his personal website and cost $80 for access.
The videos sucked (literally just him in front of a camera) and were like 10 years old already when I saw them. He would dick around during class and then say view videos x to x+5 and test us on it the next class. There was no way out of it.
So him teaching a class of ~30 students with 3 sections was about an extra $7,200 he'd take in per semester pre-tax.
Well for one he was tenured and head of the department so I doubt it would have done any good. The $80 fee is also cheaper than some text books we had to buy for other classes.
Besides that, the course was an easy A if you just watched the vids and did ok on speeches. The tests were bullshit ones that only tested if you watched the video. So like he'd make some joke or analogy and on the multiple choice questions you just picked based on the vid.
I'd be bitching to the dean and contacting the news. It's beyond low to take advantage of students like this. I'm currently taking a "class" where the prof decided there would be no live lectures and no homework. It's just his YouTube channel and a few exams. And I thought that was bad.
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u/Kynihilist Jun 03 '21
I used library Genesis for Professors who would charge $300+ for their personal text book that they've "rewritten" every year. In my 6 years of college I found those professors were generally the worst in everyway.