Re: Open Syllabus project

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
>>
>>
>