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Re:The Open Syllabus Project by lrenaud on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:43PM (#10964616)
Does anyone else see a wonderful watchdog project for formally/publicly identifying inept instructors and professors coming out of this?Or is that just foolish optimism on my part?
Re:The Open Syllabus Project by danso on Monday January 25, 2016 @01:49AM (#10965965)
Why would it be more effective than peer and student review? I'm not saying that those are effective systems on their own (the bigger argument is whether academia is interested in "watchdog" regulation of instructional quality, which I would argue, "No")...but I don't think too many people are going to be enthusiastic about "ineptness" being quantified by what's found on a syllabus.

It'd be like writing a tool that evaluated developers based on what languages or libraries they used, as found on their Github repos.

Re:The Open Syllabus Project by jonesb6 on Monday January 25, 2016 @04:11AM (#10966269)
A bad instructor can have a fantastic syllabus.
Re:The Open Syllabus Project by ehudla on Monday January 25, 2016 @02:00AM (#10965987)
I'm sure we can come up with some more interesting uses!