Open (data in) Education 2nd International Open Data Dialog

Marieke Guy PRESENTED BY

Open Education Removing barriers to education

Open Education Food for thought

More minds online •  Around 2.7 billion people (40% of the world's

population) will be connected to the Internet by the end of 2013 – UN sources

•  Several billion more in the forthcoming years – from developing countries, many with disabilities

•  Worldwide demand for higher education •  New pedagogies needed for large-scale student

teaching

Open Data in Education Overview

Open data in education •  All open data that can be used for educational

purposes (e.g research data, GLAM data etc.) Data exploited/used by education.

Open data that comes out of education institutions •  Administrative data created by educational institutions

that can improve efficiency, allow students to make informed decisions etc.

Both relevant to the LinkedUp Project

What type of data?

http://www.slideshare.net/louiscrusoe/open-education-data

How can we use open data …to meet educational needs?

By supporting students •  Through creation of new tools that enable new ways to

analyse and access data e.g. maps of disabled access, tools for disciplines

•  By enriching resources, making it easier to share and find them, and how to personalize the way they are presented

•  By allowing student to explore resources, concepts, ideas and objects in various areas

•  To make informed choices on education e.g. by comparing scores, course data etc.

How can we use open data …to meet educational needs?

By supporting schools and institutions •  Learning analytics data can help retain students •  Use data can enable efficiencies in practice e.g. library data

can help support book purchasing •  Benchmarking and performance measuring By supporting governments and policy •  Open data can lead to change in policy •  Open data can lead support transparency & enable efficiency •  Data on equity and equality issues (3rd world countries) •  Education reform

Education & Development How can open data help?

•  Data is crucial for planning, managing budgets and spending, and evaluation

•  Transparency of data is essential •  Interesting work going on to build tools to analyse data,

building capacity etc. •  Global Partnership for Education Open Data Project (57

key education indicators from 29 countries) •  The data revolution in education and development:

http://bit.ly/data-development •  School of data: http://schoolofdata.org

http://www.opendiscoveryspace.eu/

http://www.shule.info

http://equipment.data.ac.uk

Keep an eye on…

Working Group

Overview

•  Binds together people to promote open data, open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices •  First activity: Writing the Open Education Handbook •  Mailing list, Twitter feed •  Want to see the discussions around open data in education pulled into the wider debates around open education •  http://education.okfn.org

Open Education Handbook Overview

•  First activity of Working Group •  Deliverable for LinkedUp Project •  Collaboratively authored •  Booksprint #1 London •  Booksprint #2 Berlin •  Open Ed Timeline event •  Now on Booktype •  Looking at synergies between areas

Handbook Writing Process Introduction Open Educational Resources

Open Textbooks Open Licences Open Badges Open Learning and Practice Open Data Open Policy Additional Information

Licence Glossary Acknowledgements