Re: [Proposal] schema:OnlineCourse

re: CourseSession or CourseSection?

>From https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195#issuecomment-77479627
:

Is it CourseSession or CourseSection?
> (It was CourseSession, but was changed without discussion to
> CourseSection).
>
>    - I vote for "CourseSession". To me, Section implies a physical
>    partitioning; which does not fit.
>
>
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:

> For schema:Course and schema:CourseSection there is a GitHub Issue and a
> Google Doc:
>
> * https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195
> *
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/12YWjLzZC8FiTiOwSAETRIEozeqZdn6O8a4fgqK4t5Ss/edit?usp=sharing
>
> From the Google Doc (and GitHub Issue):
>
>
>    - "Schema.org: Online Courses" *https://docs.google.com/document/d/12YWjLzZC8FiTiOwSAETRIEozeqZdn6O8a4fgqK4t5Ss/edit?usp=sharing
>    <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12YWjLzZC8FiTiOwSAETRIEozeqZdn6O8a4fgqK4t5Ss/edit?usp=sharing>* (Working
>    Proposal)
>       - Thing > Intangible > Course
>       - Thing > Intangible > CourseSection
>       - Thing > Event > EducationEvent
>
> Re: Course of Study / Major
>
>    - Modeling traditional sets of prerequisites is a difficult problem.
>    There are often ("either ors") which do require n-ary patterns. e.g. A ->
>    (B or C or E) -> D -> F
>       - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_connective#Natural_language
>       - n-ary patterns are much easier with URIs (than with denormalized
>       nested records)
>       - http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/nary-relation.html
>    - Unbundling significantly alleviates this need (for structured
>    traversal of a graph of Courses)
>    - Coursera has a concept of "Specializations" [1]
>
>
>>    - Master a skill with a targeted *sequence of courses*
>>
>>
>>    - Apply it in a *capstone project*
>>
>>
>    - The "subjectOfStudy" and/or "educationalAlignment" properties may be
>    useful for linking to one or more "Course of Study" or "Major".
>    - alignmentObject -> http://schema.org/AlignmentObject (LRMI:
>       http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification)
>
>
> [1] https://www.coursera.org/specializations
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Steve Scott <steve@courseload.com> wrote:
>
>> Just a few opinions from the peanut gallery...
>>
>> I would avoid Class as a label for Course since it is most widely used to
>> relate to the cohort attending a Course (my class == my classmates) and/or
>> the time of meeting (my Bio Class is Tue at 9 - class == single class
>> session).
>>
>> Instructional temporality is generally related to a "Term" to which a
>> Course section belongs and inherits it's timeframe.
>>
>> "Course of Study" and "Major" are common synonyms in my experience
>> working with higher ed.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> 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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