<s>
The	O
Open	B-General_Concept
Syllabus	I-General_Concept
Project	I-General_Concept
(	O
OSP	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
online	O
open-source	B-Application
platform	I-Application
that	O
catalogs	O
and	O
analyzes	O
millions	O
of	O
college	O
syllabi	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
its	O
beta	O
launch	O
in	O
2016	O
,	O
the	O
OSP	O
has	O
collected	O
over	O
7	O
million	O
course	O
syllabi	O
from	O
over	O
80	O
countries	O
,	O
primarily	O
by	O
scraping	B-Application
publicly	O
accessible	O
university	O
websites	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Canada	O
,	O
Australia	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
U.K	O
also	O
have	O
large	O
datasets	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
OSP	O
primarily	O
collects	O
syllabi	O
by	O
scraping	B-Application
publicly	O
accessible	O
university	O
websites	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
OSP	O
developers	O
use	O
machine	O
learning	O
and	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
to	O
extract	O
metadata	O
from	O
such	O
syllabi	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
OSP	O
is	O
unable	O
to	O
access	O
syllabi	O
behind	O
private	O
course-management	B-Application
software	I-Application
like	O
Blackboard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
OSP	O
found	O
that	O
Mary	O
Shelley	O
's	O
Frankenstein	B-Application
was	O
the	O
most	O
widely	O
taught	O
novel	O
in	O
college	O
courses	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
most	O
assigned	O
texts	O
in	O
the	O
field	O
of	O
philosophy	O
include	O
Aristotle	O
's	O
Nicomachean	O
Ethics	O
,	O
John	O
Stuart	O
Mill	O
's	O
Utilitarianism	O
,	O
and	O
Plato	B-Operating_System
's	O
Republic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Plato	B-Operating_System
's	O
Republic	O
was	O
also	O
the	O
second	O
most	O
assigned	O
text	O
in	O
universities	O
in	O
the	O
English-speaking	O
world	O
(	O
only	O
behind	O
Strunk	O
and	O
White	O
's	O
Elements	O
of	O
Style	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Media	O
theorist	O
Elizabeth	O
Losh	O
opines	O
that	O
"	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
approaches	O
"	O
,	O
like	O
the	O
OSP	O
,	O
may	O
"	O
raise	O
troubling	O
questions	O
for	O
instructors	O
about	O
informed	O
consent	O
,	O
pedagogical	O
privacy	O
,	O
and	O
quantified	O
metrics.	O
"	O
</s>
