[Linganth] Open Syllabus Project

[Christopher Jenks]

Thanks for the links Adam.  I think this is a great idea.  Apart from the
various nonsensical things that we do to justify our teaching to different
administrative people, I think that access to information like this should
always be free and open.  We also don't advance as an area of study if we
keep all of our teaching tricks and strategies to ourselves.  Just some
initial thoughts.

Thanks again for sharing,

Chris


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Adam Hodges <Adam.Hodges at colorado.edu>
wrote:

> Interesting story from The New York Times on the Open Syllabus Project:
>
> http://nyti.ms/1K1mefe
>
> Here's the direct link to the project:
>
> http://opensyllabusproject.org/
>
> Beyond the issues raised in the NYT article, the project website might be
> a potentially useful resource for those planning courses. You might also
> consider submitting your syllabi directly to the project to provide more
> representation from linguistic anthropology courses.
>
> In the NYT article, the authors argue, "we think that it is important for
> schools to move toward a more open approach to curriculums. As universities
> face growing pressure to justify their teaching and research missions, we
> doubt that curricular obscurity is helpful. We think that the Syllabus
> Explorer demonstrates how more open strategies can support teaching,
> diversify evaluation practices and offer new perspectives on publishing,
> scholarship and intellectual traditions. But as with any newly published
> work, that judgment now passes out of our hands and into yours."
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Adam
>
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