eCoursePacket.com is the culmination of many years of discussion with instructors involving their needs and the needs of their students. As technologies and attitudes have changed, there has been a change in direction from printed course materials to electronic on-line course material availability. Students appreciate the ease of use and low cost of online materials and instructors appreciate the ability to instantly post materials. Additionally, upcoming online tools such as Calendars and submission of Assignments will offer conveniences that were never available through conventional methods.
While there are well-established programs touting the tools offered by eCoursePacket.com, these systems do not offer copyright clearance and they entail initial costs often reaching six figures per institution. The eCoursePacket system offers the same convenience and tools as BlackBoard and other electronic learning systems. The eCoursePacket.com system does not cost the institution or instructor anything to use. The system also offers free copyright clearance for all copyrighted materials. Although the students pay for access to course materials, the costs are considerably less than those of published materials. And, there are many features that are free to the students including the Calendar, the Syllabus area, and the Assignments area, all of which allow communication between the instructor and the students as well as among the students.
It should be noted that the copyright clearance feature of eCoursePacket.com is a very important feature. For many years, instructors and students have been able to take advantage of BlackBoard and similar learning systems to place copyrighted materials online with no clearance and with no danger of repercussion. During the past year, publishers have begun filing and threatening legal action against schools that have allowed such behavior. eCoursePacket.com can help instructors and institutions by insuring copyright compliance of all posted materials. Visit our Copyright Permissions page for more information.
