RE: [Proposal] schema:OnlineCourse

Hello Jim, so, now I know what the "Course Section" in CEDS is. That helps. In CEN MLO it is called a "Learning Opportunity Instance" and in XCRI it is a Course "Presentation". I think it is worth noting also that a similar (bidirectional) relationship exists in schema.org for CreativeWorks expressed through the workExample and exampleOfWork properties.

Phil


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From: Jim Goodell [jgoodell2@yahoo.com]
Sent: 27 October 2014 19:06
To: public-vocabs@w3.org
Subject: RE: [Proposal] schema:OnlineCourse

+1 Phil�s approach to separating the concept of Course and an instance of a Course, sometimes called a �Course Section.�

Students enroll in a Course Section, and instructors are assigned to a Course Section.  The Course Section might them be scheduled as one or more events, if it is designed for synchronous learning, or it might just require a begin and end date for the window in which the Course Section is offered/available for students to progress at their own pace.  Course content, such as a video may be used across all Sections of a course, but there may be section content developed for or by participants in the specific Section.  Likewise, the content coverage and general learning expectations would be defined as part of the �Course" design, allowing for variations in delivery by different instructors teaching different Sections.

Here are entity definitions from Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)<http://ceds.ed.gov/>  (which was informed by pre-existing standards)�

Course�     The organization of subject matter and related learning experiences provided for the instruction of students on a regular or systematic basis�
Course Section�     An instance in which organized instruction of course content is provided to one or more students for a given period of time.


Re: Online as subtype: CEDS also has a �Virtual Indicator� to flag a Course Section as one that is delivered online, and a vocabulary for blended learning models.




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