It’s a bit of a gray area (for me anyway). In coursera there are no names attached to submissions (you are Student 1, Student 2, Student 3, etc.), so I have no idea who I ‘graded’. I have the verbatim quotes which are raw materials. At the moment I am not planning on using verbatim quotes (and if I need anything quoted I will most likely paraphrase).

There are a few elements to this as well (I guess this might make a good debate/discussion in another forum as well):
1. If I plan on writing on my blog (not a research paper): do I need permission to quote people?
2. If I plan on writing on my blog (not a research paper), and all of my data is anonymous to me: can I just quote verbatim?
3. If I plan on writing on my blog (not a research paper): what are the implications of reposting materials from a semi-closed community?

Normally classes are “open” for enrollment for quite some time, but this course was closed off by coursera. Normally people can go in and read what others have written in a MOOC, or a Fb community, but it is not indexed by search engines, so no one can search for verbatim word strings to identify someone quoted in a blog/publication outside the system.

Does “anonymous” have the same right to not be quoted (or be quoted with permission) as someone who is posting on a MOOC forum (or submitting homework) with their name?

In short, I don’t know 🙂 Thoughts?