昨天看到36氪的这条微博,对于Google的崇拜又增加了一层:
@36氪
: Google推出名为Course-builder的开源课程构建计划,致力于为网络教育提供技术构架支持 | 此前Google曾推出过一项实验性质的网络课程并取得了空前的成功,于是他们决定将这项课程中用到的一些技术开源给全世界,帮助大家更好的创建网络课程。 http://t.cn/zWsdzkW
找了一下相关的资料,发现一个来自于Google 官方的介绍视频,来自于Youtube, 我把它放到Youku上了。Peter Norvig大牛给大家介绍Course-builder的情况,看来Peter Norvig现在花很大精力来推动网络教育,有兴趣的同学还可以参考他之前在TED的一个演讲:The 100,000-student classroom(十万学生的教室)
以下是关于Course Builder的介绍视频:
关于Course Builder,大家可以直接访问其在Google Code的主页:
https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/
以下引自该主页的相关介绍:
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.
If you have technical issues or feature requests, please report them in our Issues Tracker.