A dangerous precedent.
If the online course seems to be no more than a link to somebody else's online
course (and frankly, that's happened before as well) a student can legitimately
ask him or herself why he or she should be in the present lecturer's course instead
of in the "original" course. And if the lecturer felt comfortable "channeling"
somebody else's course, then perhaps the student will see no reason not to "channel"
somebody else's work as his or her own. It's almost an open invitation to actively
engage in copy/paste.
Go to: Who's the boss, or
Go to: Inventing wheels in cyberspace.