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From the Times Higher 19th August. “Can mapping curricula shed light on teaching and academic impact? Columbia University project reveals which texts are set most often on university courses around the world” By Anna McKie
“The Open Syllabus Project, ( https://opensyllabus.org/ an interactive map of international curricula, was created by researchers at Columbia University’s public policy institute, the American Assembly. Started three years ago but relaunched last month, the database was built by scraping content from publicly accessible university websites, and using submissions from academics”.
“It also has all sorts of practical applications at the university: librarians can use it for catalogue management, faculty can use it for course building and administrators can use it to look at what’s happening across the whole university”.
It would be interesting to see a more in-depth analysis for UK HE. Unlike the US, almost all UK university libraries employ reading list software which should mean this information is readily available *without* “screenscrapping” or “submissions for academics”. It just needs aggregating. Maybe something for Jisc and the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK) ?
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