Presentation given at Open Data Ireland meetup 6:30pm 23rd January 2014, University College Cork.

1. Open Data Ireland Meetup
Open Education
PRESENTED BY
Marieke Guy,
Open Knowledge Foundation

2. Me!

3. LinkedUp Project
Linking 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

4. LinkedUp Challenge
Overview
•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

5. Prototypes & Apps

6. Open Education
Removing barriers to education

7. 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
●

8. Open Data in Education
Food 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.

9. What kinds of Data?

10. Open Education Data
(Open) Educational
Resources
▪Shared via diverse APIs, semistandards, vocabularies
World
Wide
Web
Linked Open Data
▪500+ datasets, 32 billion
distinct RDF statements
From Stefan Dietze
⇒ http://linkededucation.org &
⇒ http://linkeduniversities.org

11. Using Open Data
...to meet educational needs
By supporting students
● New tools, enriching resources, exploration, informed
choices
By supporting schools and institutions
● Learning analytics, improve efficiencies,
benchmarking
By supporting governments and policy
● Change in policy, transparency, education reform

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13. 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

14. Booksprints

15. Benefits of Open Education
Inspired by http://benefitsofopen.wikispaces.com/
Transparency, change of mindset, generativity, sharing, openended 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..