Re: Open Syllabus project

I'm an advisor to the group, and last week suggested that one of the
co-founders -- Joe Karagnis -- join this group. He either has or will.

The OSP is a great project. It pushes every one of my happy buttons,.

David W.
david@weinberger.org

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> Just noticed this -
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/what-a-million-syllabuses-can-teach-us.html
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> http://opensyllabusproject.org/
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> https://github.com/opensyllabus
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> "Collect, analyze, share the world's largest corpus of classroom
> materials."
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> "The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) is pleased to make the beta version
> of our Syllabus Explorer publicly available.   The Explorer leverages
> a collection of over 1 million syllabi collected from university and
> departmental websites.  It provides:
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> The first version of a new publication metric (Teaching Score) based
> on how often texts are taught.
> A unique course-building tool that provides information about what’s
> taught with what.
> A promising means of exploring the history of fields, curricular
> change, and differences in teaching across institutions, states, and
> countries.
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> The Syllabus Explorer publishes only metadata (citations, dates,
> locations, etc) extracted from its collection via machine learning
> techniques."
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> It looks like their focus is primarily not directed towards large
> online learning systems, but rather for traditional educational
> institutions. I haven't looked very deeply yet. Seems an impressive
> effort! Does anyone here have involvement or contacts?
>
> Dan
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