I am not aware of anything like this, but really this would be a question for Logos Employees to answer.
But I hope I am misunderstanding your professors concerns. Afraid of others reading it and criticizing it?
1) Academically this doesn't make sense to me. How would they respond if you said, "I'm sorry, I don't want to turn in a paper or do a presentation because someone might criticize it?"
2) Theologically this doesn't make sense to me. Orthodox Christian Theology has spent almost two thousand years defending against secret gnostic knowledge - insisting that the true knowledge is public. Jesus died publically. He was raised publically. His name was preached to the nations publically. True Christianity about this, not wacky saying that were allegedly said in secret...
SDG
Ken McGuire
I believe you are misunderstanding it. I'm speaking about workbooks. Workbooks that are used for translations exercises, discussion questions, other questions based upon the material that is covered in class, etc. It is a workbook that a professor may use in conjunction with other scholarly books and class material. It also may contain class notes designed specifically for the class, which may confuse others trying to use the material. Real critics would have to take the class to truly criticize the workbook anyway.
So, I believe that you are misunderstanding. And you are correct in saying that this is a question for a Logos expert. Also, I'm not sure a Logos Forum is the best place to have a Christian ethics/theological argument.
I was wondering if there would be any way for professors to publish workbook for students, and students only, to purchase through Logos? I know of some professors who would like to use Logos more in the classroom. One of the ways would be to create workbooks in Logos.
Logos said that they plan to have a technical solution to share PBs accross users and maybe also to "sell" self-authored PBs. I wouldn't expect it too soon and I have no idea if this would also include a closed circle of potential buyers.
What the professor could do right now, is generating a closed Faithlife user group of students per course, and granting membership only to students who have paid for the resources. Then the professors can share course material (docx files for PBs, but also syllabi and supporting material, such as scans from articles or so, in pdf if they want to) to the group members. The purchasing wouldn't be handled by Logos, but it's something that works today and not in five years time down the road.
Hope this helps,
Mick
They are not concerned with selling or making money off the PB. They are just wanting to share a PB that they may create for in-class use. Thanks. Your response was very helpful.
By the way, a recent beta (beta 2) allowed the sharing of PB's across ones own windows pc's. They retracted the feature with beta 3, but I post this now so that you know this feature is coming sooner rather than later.We hope any way
Ken,
I'm sure that many professors use handouts for coursematerials they would never publish, since they may have some things that are okay for classroom setting but not for papers, such as
if they published such things for all to see, they would be accused of sloppy work or even sued for copyright infringement - however the material was just put together under a "fit for purpose", not under a "fit for publication" aspect. I'm sure this pertains to all areas of academy and has no relation to teaching secret knowledge.
Any idea of a timeframe on how soon?
Ken, I'm sure that many professors use handouts for coursematerials they would never publish, since they may have some things that are okay for classroom setting but not for papers, such as
Of course I understand the various levels of writing. There is quite a difference between a formal book and off-the-cuff answers to questions, and most lectures are in between those two. And so I have oddly seen distributed (published?) either mp3's or text from conferences with the disclaimer that these are being prepared for later, and more formal publication. Usually it is pretty obvious with which you are dealing...
But I may have over-reacted...
Hopefully before Christ returns. people have been waiting since L3 (libronix)? I know I first heard about it in the days of L4. I wouldn't anticipate it finishing before your term starts, but maybe before L6, though we've no official word.
They have already waited until syncing of PB is irrelevant to me. I gave up and moved on to a Windows 8 tablet.
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