Hello Graduates, <br><br>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! <br><br>Those of you in the PHD program may be interested in this as a topic for a dissertation.<br>
<br>Dr. Franklin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Stephenson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cstephenson@hq.acm.org">cstephenson@hq.acm.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:56 AM<br>Subject: Google Provides New Open Source Course Building Software<br>To: <a href="mailto:cstaeblast@csta.acm.org">cstaeblast@csta.acm.org</a><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="3">Google just announced a new research experiment to open source the code they used to run their recent MOOC,
<i>Power Searching with Google</i> (<a href="http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/" target="_blank">http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/</a>).
<i>Course Builder</i> (<a href="https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/</a>) contains software and instructions for presenting course material (<a href="https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/ImplementCourseMaterial" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/ImplementCourseMaterial</a>),
including student activities, basic assessments and instructions for using other Google products to create a course community (<a href="https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/ManageCommunity" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/ManageCommunity</a>)
and to evaluate the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/MeasureEfficacy" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0007c1;text-decoration:none">effectiveness</span></a> of your course. To develop
<i>Course Builder</i> 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. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="3">For more information on this research project please check out the Google research blog (<a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/</a>). </font></span></p>
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