Google Open-Source Course Builder Launched

    It is already not news for Google released its open-source – course builder for most people have known about it on 11^th, September. But I still want to talk a little more about it.

    The newly released open source platform is an experimental version for online education which will give individual educators and universities the ability to create MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) of their own. It is another unexpected innovation of Google and we believe it will be a good tool for online education. Course Builder packages the software and technology to help users create their own online courses material including lessons, student activities and assessments to unlimited numbers of students. There’s also an avenue for live teaching or office hours: the obligatory Google+ tie-in lets educators announce Hangouts on Air sessions. In particular, if you got some knowledge on HTML and JavaScript, you will use it more familiar.

    A discussion forum has been set up for course builder and peter Norvig will be monitoring it to answer top question in two Google Hangouts on September 19 and September 26. Already schools like Stanford, Indiana University and UC San Diego are giving Course Builder a look. If you are interested in, keep an eye on it.