\nAs a result of work so far addressing the use cases that we outlined<\/a>, we now have answers to the following questions about how to describe courses using schema.org:<\/p>\n
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- How to define something as being about a course or being about an instance of that course<\/a><\/li>\n
- How to mark up the identifier used by providers to identify their courses<\/a><\/li>\n
- How to identify a course by provider and name<\/a><\/li>\n
- How to mark up the subject of a course<\/a><\/li>\n
- How to identify the location where a course is offered<\/a><\/li>\n
- How to identify the start and end of an instance of a course<\/a>, and the times of events that are part of it<\/a><\/li>\n
- Related to start and end dates of a course, how to specify the duration and amount of time typically required to complete a course<\/a><\/li>\n
- How to identify the organizations providing and offering courses<\/a> (and how these two roles may differ).<\/li>\n
- How to identify the teacher \/ instructor of a course<\/a> (who may or nay not be the creator of the course).<\/li>\n
- How to mark up the mode of study or delivery<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- How to identify a course which is a prerequisite of the course being described\u00a0or to link to or\u00a0describe other prerequisites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
As with anything in schema.org, many of the answers proposed are not the final word on all the detail required in every case, but they form a solid basis that I think will be adequate in many instances.<\/p>\n
What new properties are we proposing?<\/strong>
\nIn short, remarkably few. Many of the aspects of a course can be described in the same way as for other creative works or events. However we did find that we needed to create two new types Course<\/a> and CourseInstance<\/a> to identify whether the description related to a course that could be offered at various times or a specific offering or section of that course. We also found the need for three new properties for\u00a0Course: courseCode<\/a>, coursePrerequisites<\/a> and\u00a0hasCourseInstance<\/a>; and two new properties for\u00a0CourseInstance: courseMode<\/a> and instructor<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are others under discussion, but I highlight these as proposed because they are being put forward for inclusion in the next release of the schema.org<\/strong> core vocabulary.<\/p>\n
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More good news:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0the Google search gallery<\/a>\u00a0documentation for developers already\u00a0includes information on how to provide the most basic info\u00a0about\u00a0Courses<\/a>. This is where we are going \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s the end of summer (at least where I am sat that seems very much the case) and there is some good progress to report. What aspects of a course can we now describe? As a result of work so … Continue reading
- How to mark up the identifier used by providers to identify their courses<\/a><\/li>\n
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