course-catalog-examples

Microformats in Education: Course Catalog

Starting a collection of research, examples, and a rationale for a microformat for course catalogs in Higher Education. - Jesse Rodgers

Some Microformat use in Education

Here is a list of edu sites that use microformats:

• Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in our faculty directory choose an individual and they will have an hCard and vcard. For info contact Matt Herzberger
• University of Waterloo Events - new events system that uses hCal and iCal
• Pierce College staff/faculty directory uses hCard.

Where could there be a need for microformats in education?

Course Catalog

A course catalog (sometimes known as a course calendar) is a collection of courses and when they are available as well as fee schedules and course dependencies.

Examples

• University of Waterloo Course Calendar - current system is set for an upgrade but as you can see the code is very inconsistent.
  • Course information is displayed with:
    • course title
    • course requirements
    • eligibility requirements
    • any notes that are relevant to that course such as any special circumstances
    • (Anthropology Example) - no class or id names present
• University of Guelph undergrad calendar - there is an attempt to assign relevant class names to table elements.

                   tr class="title"
                   a name="ANTH4300" ANTH*4300 Anthropological Issues F (3-0) [0.50]
                   tr class="description"
                   tr class="prereqs"

• Wilfried Laurier undergrad calendar
  • Anthropology example - no class or id names present
• University of Toronto - Scarborough Campus
• University of Western Ontario