Should have linked the author: @nsousanis.bsky.social

Reviving the old 'syllabus of the month' as an occasional series, these are really excellent. spinweaveandcut.com/education-ho...

Satan's Tango is the leader here, with a handful of assignments, mostly in Poland. analytics.opensyllabus.org/singleton/au...

About that Nobel Prize… | Open Syllabus Blog Olga Togarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018\. She appears on 22 syllabi in the OS dataset. Peter Handke won in 2019 and appears on 221\. Louise Glück, who won this past September, appears...

Re-upping this piece on the Nobel Prize for Literature in the context of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's win. Safe to say he fits the pattern of very low teaching attention to non-Anglo European authors, including in Europe. blog.opensyllabus.org/about-that-n...

OER Marches On in 2024 | Open Syllabus Blog With the release of the 2.13 dataset, we can update our analysis of OER adoption for 2024. You can see the ealier 2023 update here and here for 2022. And as always you can explore all of this in Ana...

We've updated our OER adoption data for 2024. TLDR, continuing rapid growth though still from a very low baseline. blog.opensyllabus.org/OER-Update-f...

So You Want to Write/Tweet Something About the The Communist Manifesto’s High Rank in the OS Dataset | Open Syllabus Blog The 4th place rank of The Communist Manifesto among all assigned titles in the OS collection (in the 2.5 dataset) has been written about and referenced frequently. Is this high ranking weird? Suspicio...

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Якщо вам цікава навчальна література різних закордонних вишів. Прошу до даних Open Syllabus. Вони збирають інформацію в різних сферах, навіть карта цього всього є

І звісно можна подивитись самі відомі книжки серед освічених людей не проклятих росліт

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Spring 2025 News | Open Syllabus Blog We have a lot!

A new dataset and a new partnership with VitalSource! blog.opensyllabus.org/spring-2025-...

Your Students May Not Have Read the Syllabus. But This Tool Did. Open Syllabus Analytics is a one-of-a-kind resource that offers promising analysis of millions of syllabi. But the execution disappoints.

REVIEW of a resource 'Open Syllabus Analytics' katinamagazine.org/content/arti... Good breakdown of what it offers and what it can help with

What if you could see which academic ideas are shaping students' minds worldwide? With Open Syllabus, we now can. One standout? Mike Munger’s work.

OER Adoption Update: 2023 | Open Syllabus Blog With the release of version 2.11 of the OS dataset, we can update our reporting on adoption rates for open educational resources (OERs) -- specifically, open textbooks and 'open access' monographs.

We'd apply all the caveats to the 2024 data that we've applied in the past. Here, for example: blog.opensyllabus.org/oer-adoption.... And you can explore all of this yourself if you're interested, at analytics.opensyllabus.org

OER is maintaining its momentum in 2024, growing quickly but from a low baseline. OA monograph adoption, in contrast, is largely static. These are generally specialized scholarship: they occupy smaller course niches and aren't substitutes for commercial titles. The top OA monographs (more or less):

Here's another way to look at it: keyword searches for OER and Openstax -- a large OER publisher.

Pick a field with lots of OER titles and a longer history of using them and the numbers jump. Here's Math at CA 2-Years. 2024 may be a spike in our data (for now), but figure adoption at around 3-4x the average of other fields.

Once again, California 2-years lead the way. Around 5% of all CA 2yr classes are taught with an OER textbook. Best, but still not a lot. Some of this is a function of the stickiness of faculty textbook choices. Some follows from the spotty availability of OER titles in many fields.

Zoom in on 2-years and it's steeper -- over 2x since 2020. The use of Open Access monographs basically vanishes, since courses at 2-year schools are overwhelmingly textbook driven.

New Open Syllabus OER data just dropped! Another year of impressive growth for OER textbooks in US .edus -- up around 13% in 2024 or roughly 2x since 2020.

Anne-Wil Harzing provides a very nice overview of what faculty and instructional designers can do with Open Syllabus. harzing.com/publications...

The Conservative University | Open Syllabus Blog Much of the attention to ‘woke’ politics in higher ed assumes that the curriculum is a major driver of it – that students learn new ways of thinking about race or gender or inequality from their class...

The Conservative University. blog.opensyllabus.org/the-conserva...

Galaxy Brain Teaching is a collective project. What happens when we see it that way?

When asked why he wrote across so many topics, Max Weber allegedly replied: "I am not a donkey. I don't have a field." But for the rest of us, we wrote about them. www.publicbooks.org/galaxy-brain/ @publicbooks.bsky.social

OER Adoption Update: 2023 | Open Syllabus Blog With the release of version 2.11 of the OS dataset, we can update our reporting on adoption rates for open educational resources (OERs) -- specifically, open textbooks and 'open access' monographs.

What does that look like? Here's our report for 2023, showing very rapid growth in adoption over the past years -- but starting from zero a decade ago and still marginal in most programs. blog.opensyllabus.org/oer-adoption...

Lots of states and systems push schools to adopt 'Open Educational Resources' for the classroom -- which usually refers to free textbooks. But free also means hard to measure, since their is no single point of distribution or sale. We pull that info from syllabi and produce OER adoption metrics.

Galaxy Brain Teaching is a collective project. What happens when we see it that way?

Another oldie but goodie: www.publicbooks.org/galaxy-brain/

Business School ‘Teaching Power’ | Open Syllabus Blog Each year, the Financial Times ranks international MBA programs. This year the top 10 are Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD (France/Singapore), U Penn – Wharton, London Business School, CEIBS (China), U Chica...

The full rankings from 2021 are here. And beyond Harvard and MIT, it has some surprises. Schools haven't valued 'teaching impact' because it hasn't had a measure. And so the rankings it produces are different. We'll post the 2024 charts in a few days. blog.opensyllabus.org/business-sch...

Amazon.com: Principles of Marketing: 9780134492513: Armstrong, Gary, Armstrong, Gary: Books Amazon.com: Principles of Marketing: 9780134492513: Armstrong, Gary, Armstrong, Gary: Books

Harvard won the rankings when we did this analysis three years ago, but in this round they were edged out by Kellog/Northwestern -- largely based on the ubiquity of the work of Philip Kotler's marketing textbooks. www.amazon.com/Principles-M...

Harvard’s ‘teaching power’ puts business school in the lead for influence New table provides a different measure to citations in academic journals

Yes it's another citation metric with the limitations of citation metrics. But it captures a very different set of judgments about what's central and peripheral to fields -- and it helps faculty take credit for dimensions of their work that are commonly ignored. www.ft.com/content/beb7...

Business authors struggle to win recognition for work Despite being fixtures of student reading lists, writers and their insights are often undervalued by universities

The @financialtimes.com has integrated out teaching metrics into its MBA school rankings. In short, we count citations on syllabi to measure the contribution of a school's faculty to teaching in their field. www.ft.com/content/3323...

Open Syllabus is proud to launch the Course Matcher, which will make it easier for the roughly 1 million US college students who transfer schools every year to receive credit for their classes. coursematcher.opensyllabus.org

The OS Analytics Top 100 Books of the 21st Century | Open Syllabus Blog The New York Times recently published a list of the '100 Best' books of the 21st Century, drawing on recommendations from authors and critics -- and it is generally excellent. And also completely sub...

Replaying some of the hits in the new home.... blog.opensyllabus.org/top-100-assi...

Open Syllabus Map the college curriculum across 20.9 million syllabi

Greetings! Open Syllabus is now on BlueSky. OS is a massive non-profit archive of the main activity of higher education: teaching. It provides top-down views of the curriculum across thousands of schools to support curricular design, lifelong learning, and student mobility. opensyllabus.org