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..