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 HerzbergerNote Here is an article he wrote called Microformats, go for it
• University of Waterloo Events (Beta) - new events system being developed that will use 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 scheduales and course dependancies.

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