For 11 respondents, their own curricular materials (broadly described as collections of notes, slides, and other materials) for a particular course were important repositories of information.
MyEdu's academic data and insight collectively make up what it believes is currently the largest academic repository of course, grade history and degree information in the U.S., which it is leveraging to power secure, cloud-based education apps that help students better plan and manage semesters and degrees, a la Edmodo.
The repository includes course lectures, faculty presentations, campus events and more.
In the vast universe of Connexions, an open-source repository of course materials, Catherine Schmidt-Jones, known as Kitty, is something of a champion.
Many businesses have no interest in publishing their containers to a public repository, of course.
As such, an example lightweight consumer tool is supplied in the form of the StatsDB Reporter application which currently exists in prototype form but a mature version will be available in due course from the GitHub repository for StatsDB, as well as parsers for other tools (for example, PacBio sts files).
But MyEdu has the benefit of building its new profile and recruiting options on top of a huge data set that already contains one of the larger repositories of course and grade history out there — something that differentiates it from its competitors and gives it a big proprietary advantage over its competitors.
Websites contained repositories of course related materials, web-based tutorials, and also videos and quizzes.
A repository of courses was established on the CUCO network website.
Course World is a giant repository of user-generated levels, and you can opt to take the 100 Mario Challenge, which picks sets of eight courses and gives you 100 lives with which to reach the end – not as generous as it may sound, since difficulty levels tend towards the fearsome.
Figure 1 Types of information repositories accessed during course planning.
