Discussions on Education
Subjects
What about a Subject type that has properties like branches, topics covered, etc; like Math as a subject, with Geometry and Calculus as branches or sub-
subjects, Euclidian Geometry as a sub-subject, Right Triangles, Derivitives, and Pythagoerean Theorem as topics covered or what have you.
Would mathematics and other academic studies fit in Education, or is this domain more about institutions and methods?
This domain is more about institutions and methods, so topics about the teaching of math could arguably be put in here, but topics specific to an area of study such as the ones you suggest should go in their own domain. I don't think there's currently a mathematics domain, but some of the other sciences are being built out.
Educational Institution Datasets
Hi,
I'm working at Hi5, and we have a number of datasets for schools that we'd like to make available. They are from public sources and from our users.
Can someone contact me at plindner@hi5.com to discuss the best way of importing this data?
Done.
School Principle
I might be missing it, but we don't seem to have a principle property for schools, I thought this would be a useful addition. On that note, the position of head (teacher) of a school may go by other names around the world.
This should be added using the "employees" property. If that property is missing, add "employer" as a type to the school. This allows not only principals/headmasters/etc. to be included, but all other staff and faculty as well, without requiring a separate property or label for each type of employee. All educational institutions should have "employer" as a type as well, but many of them don't because they were created before the employer type existed.
Campuses
I think there should be a campus field for institutions that would allow us to specify at what campuses it has.
Type for 'eventlike' educational structures
I'm wondering where to put graduate programs or even more informal educational »institutions« that have an 'identity' but at the same time behave like events.
An example of the former: the »arts, computation, engineering« graduate program at UC Irvine (http://ace.uci.edu/)
for the latter: http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/event/default.xslt/nodenr-153980 (a master class called »Making Art of Databases« which is decidedly *not* part of any formal program, yet educational in nature).
That's a good question. I could imagine a type called something like "master class" or "seminar" (or something else that would encompass those ideas) for educational events, one-off classes, etc., and the education domain makes sense as a home for these sorts of things. I'm not entirely sure what properties it should have, but if you want to try to model it in your private domain, you could test out the structure there and we could migrate it the root-level education domain once it's ready.
Yep. I'm going to try these ideas in my domain. We'll see where I get.
University Systems?
University Systems (such as the University of North Carolina or University of California) don't seem to be fully supported. These are certainly not "Colleges" or "Universities." I would call them "Educational Institutions," but those don't currently permit member institutions. (Both of these are marked as "College/University" right now for this reason.)
There's a bunch of crap here. For example, a lot of people seem to be marked as students of "University of North Carolina" (which I've just renamed to "University of North Carolina System" to reduce confusion) when they probably should have been marked as students of "UNC Chapel Hill" (the school most often intended when people refer to "University of North Carolina").
If we fixed "educational institution" so that it had both parent and subsidiary institutions, would that fix the problem? Or do you think that a university system is more distinct, and should have a separate type?
I think either approach would work well. A lot of educational institutions have components ("campuses," "schools," or "departments"), so it seems reasonable to me to support this in the most generic fashion.
