OSP GitHub Moved
Wondering what’s new on the OSP GitHub? For those who were following the project on dhcolumbia/opensyllabus, we are now an independent GitHub group. Be advised that this is where we’ll be updating our...
View ArticleOSP Workshop Panel Discussions Now Live
Missed the OSP Workshop & Hackathon in June? You can catch up on the discussion in full recordings of our Workshop Panels here. Here’s the full schedule of panels and their participants:...
View ArticleProfHacker: On Sharing Syllabi
Konrad Lawson recently wrote a post on The Chronicle of Education‘s ProfHacker Blog commiserating with the headaches of syllabi crafting: “Having read so much and so deeply over the years on similar...
View ArticleIntellectual Property (or lack thereof) in Online Courses
In a recent story published on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Vitae Blog, Karen McArthur’s experience with plagiarism of her online art history course serves as a reminder of the murky new...
View ArticleOpportunity: Help us analyze 2 million scraped syllabi!
Do you have enviable data visualization and natural language processing skills and a passion for learning how teaching changes over time? If so, the Open Syllabus Project needs you! Help us put 2...
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GUEST POST: The Open Curriculum Project
Here at the OSP, we’re always interested in seeing how others are tackling the complex problem of open curriculum sharing. So we were excited to hear about this “small open syllabus” project...
View ArticleLINKS: Guides to Copyright & Course Materials
Here are a couple of useful institutional guides on copyright and intellectual property rights over faculty’s course materials. From the University of Maryland:...
View ArticleWelcome, Overview, to the OSP!
The Open Syllabus Project is happy to to have Overview, an open-source document analysis and visualization system originally developed at the Associated Press for investigative journalists, as our...
View ArticleA Syllabus in the news
The untimely death of David Carr, the New York Times‘s much-loved and -respected media columnist, has sparked interest in an appropriately sharp question: what did he do to earn so much esteem? One of...
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Open Syllabus Talk at IODC 2015
Here’s an overview of OSP progress in the last year, with previews of some of the candy we’ll be making public in the next months (from the International Open Data Conference 2015).
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Syllabus of the Month (Jan 2016)
Keiran Healy is this month’s winner with SOC 710: Social Theory through Complaining.
View ArticleAbout the Open Syllabus Project and Syllabus Explorer
The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) is pleased to make the beta version of our Syllabus Explorer publicly available. The Explorer leverages a collection of over 1 million syllabi collected from...
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The OSP at Two Months
The Open Syllabus Explorer is two months old and just crossed 250,000 visits. One of the exciting aspects of the launch for us has been the process of discovering the audience for the project. We...
View ArticleOSP is hiring a Full-stack Engineer / Data Scientist
April 2016 Job Listing: The Open Syllabus Project is an academic data-mining project at Columbia and Stanford that’s extracting structured information from a corpus of 1M+ college course syllabi....
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Why Sociology May Always be the Field of 20 Years Ago
Kristin Thomson has posted an excellent piece on Medium that unpacks some of the major demographic features of the top 500 sociology texts in the syllabus corpus–particularly in regard to gender, age,...
View ArticleOSP is hiring a Javascript Developer
August 2016 job listing: The Open Syllabus Project is hiring an experienced Javascript developer to help us build a rich, interactive web application that visualizes data extracted from 1M+ college...
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Syllabus of the Month (September)
September’s ‘Syllabus of the Month’ is a 1994 University of Chicago class, “Current Issues in Racism and the Law,” by a junior faculty member you may have heard of. (Full syllabus on clickthrough).
View ArticleSyllabus of the Month (February)
This month we highlight RISD Professor Clement Valla’s course, Uncreative Design, and ponder its relationship to the OSP. DESCRIPTION “In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Heubler wrote, ‘The world is...
View ArticleJob opportunity at the Open Syllabus Project: Web Applications Developer...
The Open Syllabus Project is an academic data mining project based at Columbia University that’s analyzing a corpus of 1M+ college course syllabi. We’re building a wide range of tools and services for...
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