[LINK] Google Course Builder

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

<http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/helping-world-to-
teach.html#!/2012/09/helping-world-to-teach.html>


Helping the World to Teach 

In July 'Research at Google' ran a large open online course, "Power 
Searching with Google", taught by search expert, Dan Russell.  

The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Another live 
session of Power Searching with Google begins on September 24th 2012:

 http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com

Through this experiment, Google learned that our technologies can help 
bring education to a global audience.  So we packaged up the technology 
we used to build Power Searching and are providing it as an open source 
project called "Course Builder".  

We want to make this technology available so that others can experiment 
with online learning.  https://code.google.com/p/course-builder

Welcome to Course Builder!

Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online 
education. 

It packages the software and technology we used to build our "Power 
Searching with Google" online course. 

We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether 
they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. 

You might want to create anything from an entire high school or 
university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic. 

Course Builder contains software and instructions for presenting your 
course material, which can include lessons, student activities, and 
assessments. It also contains instructions for using other Google 
products to create a course community and to evaluate the effectiveness 
of your course. 

To use Course Builder, you should have some technical skills at the level 
of a web master. In particular, you should have some familiarity with 
HTML and JavaScript.
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Cheers,
Stephen