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by ht_th 538 days ago
In my experience, once teachers retire or move on, or a course gets mothballed, it's only a matter of time for course websites disappear or become non-functional.

If the course website was even on the open web to begin with. If they're in some university content management system (CMS), chances are that access is limited to students and teachers of that university and the CMS gets "cleaned" regularly by removing old and "unused" content. Let alone what will happen when the CMS is replaced by another after a couple of years.
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pabs3 538 days ago
ArchiveTeam is trying to save some of that stuff to archive.org, obviously it can't get the non-public stuff though.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/University_Web_Hostin...

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bigiain 537 days ago
I wonder if there's an Aaron Swartz of paywalled university course material out there? Someone (or a group) downloading, datahoarding, and sharing every collection of courses they can get that you need a university login to access?
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