Open Education Open Data Ireland Meetup
Marieke Guy, Open Knowledge Foundation
PRESENTED BY
Me!
LinkedUp ProjectLinking data for Education
● EU Project from November 2012 - November 2014● FP7 Support Action which “pushes forward the
exploitation and adoption of public, open data available on the Web, in particular by educational organisations and institutions”
● Open Knowledge Foundation leading on dissemination
LinkedUp ChallengeOverview
•3 competitions: Veni, Vidi, Vici•“We’re inviting you to design and build
innovative and robust prototypes and demos for tools that analyse and/or integrate open web data for educational purposes”
•People’s Choice•Veni Competition June 2013 – September 2013•Vidi Competition November 2013 – May 2014•Vici Competition June 2014 – October 2014
Prototypes & Apps
Open EducationRemoving barriers to education
Why 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 EducationFood for thought
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.
What kinds of Data?
Open Education Data
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⇒ http://linkededucation.org & ⇒ http://linkeduniversities.org
(Open) Educational Resources
▪Shared via diverse APIs, semi-standards, vocabularies
Linked Open Data▪500+ datasets, 32 billion
distinct RDF statements
World
Wide
Web
From Stefan Dietze
Using Open Data...to meet educational needs
By supporting students● New tools, enriching resources, exploration, informed
choicesBy supporting schools and institutions● Learning analytics, improve efficiencies,
benchmarkingBy supporting governments and policy● Change in policy, transparency, education reform
Using Open Data
Keep an eye on...
Working Group
http://education.okfn.org
● Binds together people to promote open data, open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices
● Mailing list, Twitter feed, first call tomorrow (3pm GMT)
● Members structure, advisory board?● Activities: Around the world posts, mapping
synergies, Open Education Handbook
Booksprints
Benefits of Open EducationInspired by http://benefitsofopen.wikispaces.com/
Transparency, change of mindset, generativity, sharing, open-
ended learning, reducing barriers, increasing access, enabling
collaboration, enabling innovation, lowered cost, improved
learning, make content better, independent study, promote
social good, disrupting existing systems, extend access,
independence from corporations, clarity of ownership, learners
can shape own learning, reduce friction..