{"id":1871,"date":"2008-03-19T12:57:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T19:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2008-03-19T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T19:57:25","slug":"google-code-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/19\/google-code-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Code University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Google <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/computer-science-resources-for.html\">announced<\/a> a set of resource to help students and faculty with CS education.  They&#8217;ve revamped the set of resources and redesigned the web page and all the jazzy stuff to produce: <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/university\/\">Google Code University<\/a>.  Marty Stepp, whose courses are featured in the Google code university, has his office just down the hall from me.  His name plate says &#8220;Marty Stepp++&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBeing someone who teaches (pay no attention to the &#8220;research assistant professor&#8221; title), I often wonder about how the web and technology is going to change our educational system.  While I certainly am sympathetic to the notion that straight lecturing is a very poor way to teach, there is something to be said for having this form of teaching digitized, searchable, scanable, and widely available for free on the internet.  In other words, how long before Google Code University (and its relatives) starts to eat into the traditional brick and mortar educational institutes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Google announced a set of resource to help students and faculty with CS education. They&#8217;ve revamped the set of resources and redesigned the web page and all the jazzy stuff to produce: Google Code University. Marty Stepp, whose courses are featured in the Google code university, has his office just down the hall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/19\/google-code-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Code University&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}