Re: [Proposal] schema:OnlineCourse

Hi,

Just a note (of what I've encountered when working with educational data):
there usually are two things: Course < CreativeWork, and CourseEvent <
Event; the former being the structure and body of material, the latter one
of possibly many enactments in time of this structure and material.

(Many CourseEvents may of course be linked to one Course, when the course
is repeatedly given. And courses may be composed of many parts, more or
less corresponding to the chain of sub-events for one overarching
CourseEvent in time.)

Cheers,
Niklas


On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice to see somebody get concrete at  efforts at developing this schema
> for this by publishing a proposal - thanks Guangyuan!
>
> FYI, there's been preliminary discussion in this area of which you may or
> may not be aware:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2014Feb/0131.html
>
> Without having the time to review your proposal in detail, one thing that
> stands out immediately is that this is a proposal for an *online* course
> type.
>
> IMO it makes more sense (as Dan's message referenced in the above implies)
> to look at "courses" (of study) holistically, with an "online course" being
> a sub-type of a more generalized "course" type.
>
> I think it also make senses to explore a "course" as a sub-type not only
> of CreativeWork but of Event as well.  For example, your proposed
> "startDate" and "endDate" properties are already present there, and
> "instructor" is analogous to Event's "performer" property (which I've
> always maintained was too specific a name for "those that may present at an
> event").
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:31 PM, guangyuan piao <parklize@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’d like to propose a new subtype of CreativeWork for describing online
>> courses.
>>
>> It could be used for publishing information about online courses (e.g.
>> many courses from MOOC) such as:
>> Start date: with http://schema..org/startDate
>> <http://schema.org/startDate>
>> End date: with http://schema.org/endDate
>> Instructor, publisher(e.g. Stanford University), provider(e.g. Coursera)
>> etc.
>>
>> See URL below for basic vocabularies and example.
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/moocontology/
>>
>> All feedback will be appreciated!!
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> *Guangyuan Piao*
>>
>> PhD Student,
>> National University of Ireland, Galway.
>>
>> Email: parklize@gmail.com
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
>