Brainstorming on Course format

Contributors

Course information is available in disparate formats which makes it hard to compare information, extract information and find information.
Students Information Systems lack proper data exchange schemes and standards.
No data syndication of course information among campuses.

A community format allows the use and sharing of course data commonly publish on the web.
Provides semantics to academic information.
Provides means to mechanically operate on web content for data that otherwise is published on PDF, printed, published with proprietary EDI or XML interfaces or worst jailed in a SIS database.