It's every student's dream: getting paid to go to school. While this still may just be a pipe dream, there are companies willing to pay for to at least pay attention during your classes. According to a recent article from InsideHigherEd, students may be able to earn money simply for having great notes. And papers. And other study materials.
Thanks to a driven Babson University drop out, students may be able to earn dough for taking good notes, writing great papers, and providing great study materials not only for fellow classmates, but also (hopefully) for researchers and professors. The site is called Knetwit, and it is poised to become the largest "one-stop-shop destination for educational content." The site offers free registration for all users, as well as other features including user profiles, groups and communities and file sharing.
For many, the site's user-related content raises eyebrows and legal questions. School officials are concerned about plagiarism, cheating and copyright infringement. However, Chuck Cantrell, the vice chancellor for university relations at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga states, “One of our faculty members ... met with some of the Knetwit folks and felt that they had some safeguards in place to protect intellectual property,” he said, “and also, I guess the bottom line is, the world is changing, and this is a new way of sharing information."