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The Course Matcher will be a useful resource to the extent that it helps students. And we have come to appreciate the challenges of reaching them. If you want to help, help us broadcast the availability of this new resource.

It's also only as good as our syllabus data. If you send us syllabi, they become part of the detailed transfer map that helps other students. We only show anonymized versions limited to the core descriptive elements. More on that here:

The Course Matcher is free to use for now but will eventually shift toward a 'freemium' model that supports free student use but encourages schools to subscribe. That's how we will support this service.

The 1148 schools mapped in the Course Matcher cover over 50% of US enrollment. We'll get that closer to 90% in the next year, and also significantly expand international coverage, starting with Canada. The Matcher can handle CA-CA or CA-US transfer as easily as anything else.

The Course Matcher is purely advisory. It doesn't substitute for school decisions, which can have a variety of inputs. But it can make the process easier, better informed, more transparent, and faster -- saving students and schools time, money, and aggravation.

We score similarity based on catalog records, which provides a good first pass at understanding similarity. It provides a fast and comprehensive research resource to students, for whom transfer is often a black box, and for faculty/staff charged with making decisions.

Syllabus comparison between is the gold standard for determining course similarity. Lack of good ways to compare classes has been a major obstacle -- though not the only one -- to a functional course transfer system at any level of higher education.

You can get to syllabus-to-syllabus comparisons in some cases, save the URL, and send that in with an application for transfer credit. The decision maker at the school can look at the same comparison.

How does it work? The Course Matcher predicts similarity between over 4 million classes from 1148 schools in the US and Canada. Look up any class at School A and find the best matches for it at School B. If we have syllabi for those classes, we'll show them.

Open Syllabus is proud to launch the Course Matcher, which will make it easier for the roughly 1 million US college students who transfer schools every year to receive credit for their classes.

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Another arg in the piece is that when kids do read books, they read low difficulty 'YA' stuff and struggle to level up. There are widely assigned YA titles in the college curriculum, but concentrated in genre literature and ed school classes.

Are capacities for long-form reading in decline and is that reflected in and/or reinforced by high school and college curricula? We have little visibility on high school but are working on being able to answer this at the college level.

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