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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<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="3"><br>
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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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