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The Open Syllabus Project
- lrenaud 11y agoDoes anyone else see a wonderful watchdog project for formally/publicly identifying inept instructors and professors coming out of this?Or is that just foolish optimism on my part?
- danso 11y agoWhy would it be more effective than peer and student review? I'm not saying that those are effective systems on their own (the bigger argument is whether academia is interested in "watchdog" regulation of instructional quality, which I would argue, "No")...but I don't think too many people are going to be enthusiastic about "ineptness" being quantified by what's found on a syllabus. It'd be like writing a tool that evaluated developers based on what languages or libraries they used, as found on their Github repos.
- ehudla 11y agoI'm sure we can come up with some more interesting uses!
- jonesb6 11y agoA bad instructor can have a fantastic syllabus.
- ehudla 11y agoQuestion data can help answer: Are similar courses taught in two (or more) disciplines?
- ehudla 11y agoI don't think there's an API and the explorer function is rather limited (so as not to expose "private" sullabi). Here's an example question this project can help answering: Do non elite schools incorporate new, or non-mainstream, material quicker than elite schools?
- brendanb 11y agohttps://www.producthunt.com/tech/the-open-syllabus-project https://www.producthunt.com/tech/the-open-syllabus-project
- ehudla 11y agoFind items that begin life in the syllabi of one discipline and migrate to a different discipline.