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Course Builder:
Powering Innovators in Education
Pavel Simakov (psimakov@google.com)
IV eMadrid Workshop | June 13-14, 2013, Madrid, Spain
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Google search courses on Course Builder
Three courses on search
• 200 countries represented
• 315K students registered
• 40k certified completions
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What can I do with Course Builder?
• Create online courses (MOOCs) with lessons, activities, assessments
• Support multiple courses, units, and lessons
• Develop courseware with videos, images, text, docs and more
• Peer Review, student progress tracking
Solid Foundation
• full accessibility support
• registration, syllabus pages
• announcements page
• student profile page
• Google Groups integration
• "Infinitely" scalable
• modular, extensible
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• WYSIWYG admin and author interface
• 57 languages I18N
• hosting on Google App Engine
• real-time monitoring
• web security, XSS, XSRF, HTTPS
• Google analytics + built in analytics
• big data crunching
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Free and open source
We believe that educators want open tools that
allow them to bring their teaching to the world
without giving up their student relationship or
school branding
In Practice
• Apache License, Python
• change anything and everything
• modular, extensible, flexible
• WYSIWYG
• complete web application framework
• ready NON-SQL patterns
• ready REST, AJAX patterns
• ready XSS, XSRF
• ready custom jobs
• federated identity
• dozen App Engine services
• own your deployment
• own your student relationship
• own all your data, import/export
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Scalable and manageable
We believe an education platform should scale as easily
as a YouTube video: from one to millions of users,
and be easy to manage
In Practice
• deploy in 1 minute
• elastic scaling from 1 to 100K students
• ACID, no planned downtime datastore
• fully managed environment
• namespace isolation
• rights delegation
• high manageability
• very low administration cost
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• A revolution is upon us. It will only get 1000 times more exciting.
• Course Builder is our tool of choice. You can innovate in education and
change the world now.
• Go to school! The more computer literate you are - the more you can do!
• Professor, TAs and grad students - unite & build the course together!
• Children are the real source of my inspiration. We are all kids when we learn.
Make it look good! Make it interactive! Make it fun and cool!
• Running a course online is daily work as with any other course.
• Intelligent machines will help, but they can't replace the dedication,
experience, passion, and human touch of a real teacher.
• It's just software. Let your imagination define the limits. It's you who will
change education, we simply help.
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