Re: Mode of study or delivery

The proposed External Enumerations Issue (#894
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/894>)  - Pull request (#924
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/pull/924>) - may help with
describing a set of values for courseMode.

The key question being where, reliable and hopefully authoritative, would
these be hosted?

And yes you are right, many will probably just provide a text value.

~Richard

On 4 March 2016 at 10:47, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> I'ld like to go further than URIs and have the URIs resolve to some useful
> information (e.g. in SKOS), and I would like to be able to use Richards
> proposed EnumerationValue [1]. This would allow us to provide a meaningful
> URL and a textual value as a name.
>
> I suspect that the list of courseModes is finite but longer than the list
> we have at the moment. I also suspect that people will want to use local
> values as well as the core 'required' set. Finally I suspect that whatever
> we specify many people will just provide a text value.
>
> Going beyond a list of suggested text values may require some effort and
> discussion. There is a wiki page for how to specify mode of study or
> delivery, I invite anyone interested to edit it to provide definitions and
> add any values that may be missing. We can discuss any issues in this
> thread.
>
> Phil
>
> 1. https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/894
>
>
> On 03/03/2016 21:50, Richard Wallis wrote:
>
> I agree it would be good to use URIs to add some consistency.
>
> Potentially we could define an Enumeration set for these - online,
> face-to-face, MOOC, distance learning, part-time, full-time -  That is if that
> that is the finite list.  Alternatively if those values are already defined
> somewhere with canonical URIs we could recommend their use and show them in
> examples.
>
> As to ‘requiring’ them, that is probably to constraining for Schema.org.
>
> ~Richard.
>
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> On 3 March 2016 at 18:54, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll be the person to suggest that we should require URIs here.
>>
>> There will probably be translations (rdfs:label@en in MediaWiki RDFa?),
>> so I think consistent URIs would be preferable. (because i believe Text
>> fields to be less likely to work consistently with faceting)
>> On Mar 3, 2016 11:14 AM, "Phil Barker" <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have modified the wiki page for this to reflect the
>>> Course/CourseInstance naming
>>>
>>> https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/wiki/Mode_of_study_or_delivery
>>>
>>> There is a requirement to be able to identify the mode of study which
>>>> arises from the use case 1.6 (2.6, 9.6) "where the searcher is concerned
>>>> about the means of delivery, e.g. wants to take a MOOC, wants to study at
>>>> home by distance learning, study online, study face-to-face."
>>>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> *courseMode*, a property of CourseInstance with expected type: text
>>>>
>>>> definition: The medium or means of delivery of the course, or the mode
>>>> of study.
>>>>
>>>> Suggested values: online, face-to-face, MOOC, distance learning,
>>>> part-time, full-time
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Any objections?
>>>
>>> I think there are some terms in CEDS that we could include as suggested
>>> values, see
>>> https://ceds.ed.gov/element/001161 (Thanks Jim)
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24/02/2016 14:58, Phil Barker wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hope this is a fairly straightforward use case requirement to deal
>>>> with.
>>>>
>>>> There is a requirement to be able to identify the mode of study which
>>>> arises from the use case 1.6 (2.6, 9.6) "where the searcher is concerned
>>>> about the means of delivery, e.g. wants to take a MOOC, wants to study at
>>>> home by distance learning, study online, study face-to-face."
>>>>
>>>> Currently the closest property in the proposal is the isVirtual
>>>> indicator, which I think there was agreement needed broadening.
>>>>
>>>> It is often difficult to separate mode of study from mode of course
>>>> delivery, e.g. a course is delivered online for students who study online.
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes though there is a form of course delivery that really needs
>>>> to be highlighted. I think that MOOCs are an example of this. We want
>>>> people to be able to identify courses delivered as MOOCs directly, without
>>>> faffing around with a combination of cost, enrolment requirements and being
>>>> online.
>>>>
>>>> How about:
>>>> courseMode a property of CourseOffering
>>>> definition: the medium of means of delivery of the course or the mode
>>>> of study. A CourseOffering may be a blend of different modes, e.g.
>>>> face-to-face and online.
>>>> expected type: text (*)
>>>> Suggested values: online, face-to-face, MOOC, distance learning,
>>>> part-time, full-time
>>>>
>>>> (* this is a prime candidate for external enumerations with the
>>>> suggested values as a default enumeration)
>>>>
>>>> Phil
>>>>
>>>>
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