Find,
Build, Share - Fork?
In a recent ProfHacker post by Brian
Croxall of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the topic of “Forking
Your Syllabus” lit up with over 40 comments from the higher ed
community.
Much of the conversation revolved around the fine line between
stealing, collaborating, and giving credit where credit is due. Two
of the three thoughts are more subjective; the third is more academic
in spirit and is further supported by our ability, thanks to
technology, to “copy with conditions.”
As for syllabi, Croxall and the many
commenters thought beyond the Creative Commons model to talk about
ClassConnect, a teaching documentation share-house, and the potential
for course-forking with open source repository GitHub.
We might have been ahead of the
curve as it relates to course sharing and collaboration, but it
didn’t come easy. When we first built Concourse, we developed
features from a student perspective, i.e., I want information, I want
it now, and I want it easy. Now, we accommodate the need for
immediate gratification and more.
Our online syllabus solution Concourse supports forking your syllabus
and more importantly helps your academic community share syllabi in a
way that works best for any school, department, and instructor. Full
blog post. >>
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Syllarazzi
Old fan of
Concourse
The School of
Dentistry at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) wanted to
replace their outdated syllabus management system and implement a tool
that was more capable and instructor-centric.
They formed an assessment committee
and compiled a list of features and functions that would make an ideal
syllabus system, including:
• Standardize
syllabi
• Advance
reporting
• Readily
integrate
• Accelerate
accreditation
• Improve
accessibility
Fast forward...
We're proud to announce the School of Dentistry at OHSU... >>
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Campus
Villain
Faculty
Resistance
Having featured syllabus copyright in
this edition of The
Syllabus Enthusiast, it seemed appropriate for us to bring
up our most infamous campus villain, Faculty Resistance.
We’re not sure if it’s her devious gaze, mind control, or her disdain
for new technology that make the academic community love to hate her.
No, no…everyone knows we love all
faculty members. In fact, we’ve worked tirelessly at developing a tool
that puts the over used term “user-friendly” to shame.
Here’s your security clearance for
defeating faculty resistance and other evil campus villains. >>
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Feature
Facts
Veruca Salt
Students
There are some students that make a
habit of reaching for the lowest hanging fruit, but most students are
savvy consumers of information.
Disruptive technology is becoming a
way of life for students and schools are rapidly shifting to meet the
demand of the, “I don’t care how, I want it now,” scholar.
Always one step ahead, the Syllabus
Geeks have optimized Concourse for the small screen.
Mobile devices are personal and almost
always within a users reach; a syllabus-on-the-go is a perfect solution
for connecting the entire academic community to the class. More
syllabus on-the-go. >>
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