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
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.
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
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