[Itech] Fwd: Google Provides New Open Source Course Building Software

[Teresa Franklin]

Hello Graduates,

This comes from a professional group I belong to -- you should belong to
professional groups so that you also stay up to date on trends in the
discipline!

Those of you in the PHD program may be interested in this as a topic for a
dissertation.

Dr. Franklin

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From: Chris Stephenson <cstephenson at hq.acm.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Subject: Google Provides New Open Source Course Building Software
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 Google just announced a new research experiment to open source the code
they used to run their recent MOOC, *Power Searching with Google* (
http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/). *Course Builder* (
https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/) contains software and
instructions for presenting course material (
https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/ImplementCourseMaterial),
including student activities, basic assessments and instructions for using
other Google products to create a course community (
https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/ManageCommunity) and to
evaluate the effectiveness<https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/MeasureEfficacy>of
your course. To develop
*Course Builder* users will be experienced course designers, and will have
basic familiarity with HTML and JavaScript.  This could be an interesting
way to explore the use of the cloud to provide learners with a self paced
learning environment as well as real time feedback on understanding.


 For more information on this research project please check out the Google
research blog (http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/).

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