2013 06 13 (uc3m) emadrid psimakov google course builder powering innovation education

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Course Builder:Powering Innovators in Education

Pavel Simakov ([email protected])IV eMadrid Workshop | June 13-14, 2013, Madrid, Spain

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Google Research releases Course Builder


Google search courses on Course Builder

Three courses on search• 200 countries represented• 315K students registered• 40k certified completions


What can I do with Course Builder?• Create online courses (MOOCs) with lessons, activities,

assessments

• Support multiple courses, units, and lessons

• Develop courseware with videos, images, text, docs and more

• Peer Review, student progress trackingSolid Foundation• full accessibility support

• registration, syllabus pages

• announcements page

• student profile page

• Google Groups integration

• "Infinitely" scalable

• modular, extensible

• WYSIWYG admin and author interface

• 57 languages I18N

• hosting on Google App Engine

• real-time monitoring

• web security, XSS, XSRF, HTTPS

• Google analytics + built in analytics

• big data crunching


Free and open sourceWe believe that educators want open tools that allow them to bring their teaching to the world without giving up their student relationship or school branding

In Practice

• Apache License, Python• change anything and everything• modular, extensible, flexible• WYSIWYG• complete web application

framework• ready NON-SQL patterns• ready REST, AJAX patterns

• ready XSS, XSRF• ready custom jobs• federated identity• dozen App Engine services• own your deployment• own your student relationship• own all your data, import/export


Scalable and manageableWe believe an education platform should scale as easily as a YouTube video: from one to millions of users, and be easy to manage

In Practice

• deploy in 1 minute• elastic scaling from 1 to 100K

students• ACID, no planned downtime

datastore• fully managed environment

• namespace isolation• rights delegation• high manageability• very low administration cost


A Simple MOOC isreally easy to build :)


Not everyone is aVincent van Gogh :(


LIVE DEMO


Can I do all thisby myself?


If I build it, and they come...will my server crash?


What doesit all mean?


• A revolution is upon us. It will only get 1000 times more exciting.

• Course Builder is our tool of choice. You can innovate in education and change the world now.

• Go to school! The more computer literate you are - the more you can do!

• Professor, TAs and grad students - unite & build the course together!

• Children are the real source of my inspiration. We are all kids when we learn. Make it look good! Make it interactive! Make it fun and cool!

• Running a course online is daily work as with any other course.

• Intelligent machines will help, but they can't replace the dedication, experience, passion, and human touch of a real teacher.

• It's just software. Let your imagination define the limits. It's you who will change education, we simply help.

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