Re: Open Syllabus project

Oh, great - really glad to have you involved here :)

Dan

On 24 January 2016 at 19:35, Joe Karaganis <joe.karaganis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I've just joined the group.  Eager to see where it goes and help if
> possible.
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Karaganis
>
> The American Assembly
> Columbia University
> http://americanassembly.org/
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:07 PM, David Weinberger <david@weinberger.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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 -
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/what-a-million-syllabuses-can-teach-us.html
>>>
>>> http://opensyllabusproject.org/
>>>
>>> https://github.com/opensyllabus
>>>
>>> "Collect, analyze, share the world's largest corpus of classroom
>>> materials."
>>>
>>> "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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> The Syllabus Explorer publishes only metadata (citations, dates,
>>> locations, etc) extracted from its collection via machine learning
>>> techniques."
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>

Received on Monday, 25 January 2016 02:52:20 UTC