I'm party to a fair number of discussions about sharing teaching materials and I think it's for exactly these sorts of reasons that people don't share teaching materials more.
Some things need polishing up. Other things you might be happy to tell your students but might be a bit controversial written down in black and white (such-and-such a textbook is much better than another textbook, or for instance the session I did this week giving advice to students on how to make their mathematics look better to someone marking it).
It doesn't mean they wouldn't be useful to other people teaching the same course, and you'd be extremely happy to hand them over to someone who you knew would use them, but you might feel a bit uneasy putting them straight on the web. There needs to be something inbetween but I can't quite decide what that should be.
Ooh, Juliette. Did you wander on to Planet Gareth and download my thesis recently? If it was you, what on earth were you doing such a silly thing for? I'd stick to the Badgers if I were you.
I did get an e-mail requesting an electronic copy of my thesis from someone random at Oxford I think about a year ago. I wanted to tell them it wasn't worth reading but I just sent them a copy instead.
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Some things need polishing up. Other things you might be happy to tell your students but might be a bit controversial written down in black and white (such-and-such a textbook is much better than another textbook, or for instance the session I did this week giving advice to students on how to make their mathematics look better to someone marking it).
It doesn't mean they wouldn't be useful to other people teaching the same course, and you'd be extremely happy to hand them over to someone who you knew would use them, but you might feel a bit uneasy putting them straight on the web. There needs to be something inbetween but I can't quite decide what that should be.
I did get an e-mail requesting an electronic copy of my thesis from someone random at Oxford I think about a year ago. I wanted to tell them it wasn't worth reading but I just sent them a copy instead.