Share Syllabi
Please consider contributing syllabi to the Open Syllabus archive. Signed-in users of Open Syllabus Analytics can do so via the 'CONTRIBUTE SYLLABI' panel on the landing page. We can also receive syllabi attached to an email sent to: share@opensyllabus.org.
If you are in a position to get your program, college, or university involved, send us a note at contact@opensyllabus.org.
What we do with syllabi:
Open Syllabus makes use of syllabi in several different ways.
- Open Syllabus Analytics publishes anonymized, abbreviated views of the descriptive elements of syllabi in the collection. This view consists of the title, code, date, institution, description, learning outcomes, and assigned titles. These views are only available to sign-in users of Analytics.
- The Course Matcher supports course transfer decision making by providing detailed comparisons between classes at source and destination schools. The same abbreviated, anonymized views of syllabi can appear in 1-1 course comparisons for logged-in users.
- Open Syllabus makes anonymized, partial versions of this dataset available for academic research. We also license anonymized, aggregated data to publishing and library services for purposes such as book development, catalog enrichment, and recommendations.
- For countries where the display of curricular choices can put faculty at risk, OS serves as a dark archive that curates but does not display curricular histories.
Contributed syllabi will be incorporated into the next version of the dataset, which we produce twice per year.
What can you do?
We welcome personal donations by students, faculty, and instructors.
We need the support and participation of colleges and universities—especially in the form of access to syllabus archives. If you are in a position to explore formal participation of your university,send us a note.
We welcome older syllabi. The collection is small before 2010 and inadequate for analysis before 2000. We would love to be able to expand the historical reach of the collection.