This document summarizes Marieke Guy's presentation on open education and open data at the 2nd International Open Data Dialog. The presentation covered: 1) An overview of open education, open data in education, and how open data can be used to support students, schools/institutions, and governments/policy. 2) Examples of how open data is being used in education projects to analyze education indicators, build tools for data analysis, and enrich educational resources. 3) The Open Education Working Group which aims to promote open data, open educational resources (OER), and open practices through collaboratively writing an Open Education Handbook.

1. 2nd International Open Data Dialog
Open (data in) Education
PRESENTED BY
Marieke Guy

2. Open Education
Removing barriers to education

3. 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

4. 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

5. What type of data?

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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. http://www.opendiscoveryspace.eu/

11. http://www.shule.info

12. http://equipment.data.ac.uk

13. Keep an eye on…

14. 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

15. Open Education Handbook
Overview
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