Re: [Proposal] schema:OnlineCourse

Class-central [1] differentiates between 'Self Paced' and 'courses with a
start and end date'.

[1] https://www.class-central.com/subject/cs

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Jim Goodell <jimgoodell@qi-partners.com>
wrote:

> I don’t think we had a strong objection to use of a subclass for the
> concept of online course (and online course section), only a strong feeling
> that there is a better option, i.e. just add a property to
> Course/CourseSection objects to indicate that it is designed-for/offered
> “online”. It keeps things simple and flexible.
>
> Others can chime in here. My perspective is based on this: CEDS
> stakeholders looked into this and found that most of the properties are the
> same as traditional courses. Properties that we might think of as unique to
> an online course, such as “Course Interaction Mode” (1), could also apply
> to blended learning courses that involve both online and off line
> participation. So that group opted to go with a “Virtual Indicator” (2)
> flag rather than define a new entity.
>
> -jim
>
>
> (1) https://ceds.ed.gov/CEDSElementDetails.aspx?TermId=8277
> (2) https://ceds.ed.gov/CEDSElementDetails.aspx?TermId=8167
>
> From: Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 11:28 AM
> To: Jim Goodell <jgoodell2@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: [Proposal] schema:OnlineCourse
> Resent-From: <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:29:07 +0000
>
> I agree that another term besides "Course" needs to be considered. (Oddly
> enough, I attended a university that uses "course" the way other US
> universities use "major", so I am sympathetic to the issues with the term.)
>
> Putting aside Course vs Class vs some other term for now, what is the
> objection to a subclass for online sessions?
>
> - Vicki
>
>
> Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Jim Goodell <jgoodell2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I used what seems to be the key points of consensus from comments posted
>> to Vicki’s doc, and the thread, to mark up suggested changes to the
>> proposal.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/12YWjLzZC8FiTiOwSAETRIEozeqZdn6O8a4fgqK4t5Ss/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> -Jim Goodell
>>
>>
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