data4ed - how data sharing, curation and analytics support innovation in education
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Data4Ed - How data sharing, curation and analytics support innovation in education
Mathieud’Aquin@mdaquin
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open Universitydata4ed.org
once upon a time
MathieuTechny
We are experts in semantic technologies and linked data - Our own university needs these techniques
once upon a time
MathieuTechny
StuartComms
We are experts in semantic technologies and linked data - Our own university needs these techniques
once upon a time
MathieuTechny
StuartComms
We are experts in semantic technologies and linked data - Our own university needs these techniques
We spend our time trying to make (potential) students know about us through website… surely there is a better way
once upon a time
MathieuTechny
StuartComms
NonLib
We are experts in semantic technologies and linked data - Our own university needs these techniques
We spend our time trying to make (potential) students know about us through website… surely there is a better way
once upon a time
MathieuTechny
StuartComms
NonLib
We are experts in semantic technologies and linked data - Our own university needs these techniques
We spend our time trying to make (potential) students know about us through website… surely there is a better way
We keep cataloguing things in different systems and models - We really should be better at exploiting our own data assets
Semantic Technologies
Are about data and knowledge representations to make them interpretable and usable by machines, across the web.
Big Campus in Milton Keynes
WarehouseLondon Regional Centre
South-East regional centre
The OU in Scotland
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The Open University
Big Campus in Milton Keynes
WarehouseLondon Regional Centre
South-East regional centre
The OU in Scotland
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The Open University
Big Campus in Milton Keynes
WarehouseLondon Regional Centre
South-East regional centre
The OU in Scotland
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registers
produces
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The Open University
Big Campus in Milton Keynes
WarehouseLondon Regional Centre
South-East regional centre
The OU in Scotland
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registers
produces
distributes
The Open University
Library catalogueBooksCourse materialSet booksArticlesAuthorsMultimedia materialCoursesTopics
Research RepositoryArticlesAuthorsBooksResearch DataTopics
Research Data StoreResearch DataAuthorsArticlesTopics
Course CatalogueCoursesQualificationsAuthorsTopics
Podcast system/iTunesUMultimedia materialAuthorsTopics
OER repositoryCourse materialAuthorsTopics
Many information systems
Library catalogueBooksCourse materialSet booksArticlesAuthorsMultimedia materialCoursesTopics
Research RepositoryArticlesAuthorsBooksResearch DataTopics
Research Data StoreResearch DataAuthorsArticlesTopics
Course CatalogueCoursesQualificationsAuthorsTopics
OER repositoryCourse materialAuthorsTopics
Podcast system/iTunesUMultimedia materialAuthorsTopics
Many information systems
Connecting data across systems
Library catalogueBooksCourse materialSet booksArticlesAuthorsMultimedia materialCoursesTopics
Research RepositoryArticlesAuthorsBooksResearch DataTopics
Research Data StoreResearch DataAuthorsArticlesTopics
Course CatalogueCoursesQualificationsAuthorsTopics
OER repositoryCourse materialAuthorsTopics
Podcast system/iTunesUMultimedia materialAuthorsTopics
Connecting data across systems
Library catalogueBooksCourse materialSet booksArticlesAuthorsMultimedia materialCoursesTopics
Research RepositoryArticlesAuthorsBooksResearch DataTopics
Research Data StoreResearch DataAuthorsArticlesTopics
Course CatalogueCoursesQualificationsAuthorsTopics
OER repositoryCourse materialAuthorsTopics
Podcast system/iTunesUMultimedia materialAuthorsTopics
Connecting data across systems
Library catalogue
Research Repository
Research Data Store
Course Catalogue
OER repository
Podcast system/iTunesU
Connecting data across systems
Library catalogue
Research Repository
Research Data Store
Course Catalogue
OER repository
Podcast system/iTunesU
HESA / KIS
BBC programmes
DBLP
DBpedia
data.gov.uk
Data.Open.ac.UK
Daga et al. (2015) The Open University Linked Data - data.open.ac.uk, Semantic Web Journal
owl:sameAs
mlo:offers
mlo:location
http://data.open.ac.uk/course/m366
http://sws.geonames.org/2963597/ (Ireland)
http://data.open.ac.uk/organization/the_open_university
http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/133849
Applications - SimpleA very simple map of the buildings of the Open University….
Built in 2 hours…
Using data from ordnance survey.
b1
b1-address
Postcode-mk76aa
name“Berrill building”
Milton Keynes
inDistrict
Buckinghamshire
inCounty
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location
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52.024924
-0.709726
d'Aquin et al. (2012) DiscOU: A Flexible Discovery Engine for Open Educational Resources Using Semantic Indexing and Relationship Summaries, Demo at ISWC
Applications - Recommendation
Applications - Recommendation
d'Aquin et al. (2012) DiscOU: A Flexible Discovery Engine for Open Educational Resources Using Semantic Indexing and Relationship Summaries, Demo at ISWC
Applications - Learning Analytics
d'Aquin et al. (2014) Using linked data in Learning Analytics, eLearning Papers, 36d'Aquin and Jay (2013) Interpreting Data Mining Results with Linked Data for Learning Analytics: Motivation, Case Study and Direction, LAK
AppliCations - Personal AnalyticsCollecting logs of access to resources, websites and services across systems at the Open University.
User centric presentation as an “inverted” web analytics.
Study of the usefulness of such “consumer”/weblifelog data and its implications
http://uciad.info d’Aquin and Thomas (2013) Consumer Activity Data: Usages and Challenges, KMi Tech report d'Aquin et al. (2011) Semantic Technologies to Support the User-Centric Analysis of Activity Data, SDoW 2011 at ISWC 2011
Thinking about the Systems?
Library catalogueBooksCourse materialSet booksArticlesAuthorsMultimedia materialCoursesTopics
Research RepositoryArticlesAuthorsBooksResearch DataTopics
Research Data StoreResearch DataAuthorsArticlesTopics
Course CatalogueCoursesQualificationsAuthorsTopics
OER repositoryCourse materialAuthorsTopics
Podcast system/iTunesUMultimedia materialAuthorsTopics
Thinking about the Data Model!
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So, where are we with it?
d'Aquin et al. (2013) Assessing the Educational Linked Data Landscape, ACM Web Science 2013
A simple model
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Not a model of education - a model of learning activities possibly happening outside the educational systems - MOOCs, informal learning, collaborative learning, incidental learning, social learning
MK Data HubAnalytics
IntegrationCurationStorageImport
Sensor Data
Local Stats
Gov. Open Data
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Mobile Apps
Dashboards
Business Intelligence
Social Web Apps
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d'Aquin et al. (2015) Smart Cities' Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Semantic Technologies, IEEE Internet Computingd'Aquin et al. (2014) Dealing with Diversity in a Smart-City Datahub, S4SC
MK Data HubAnalytics
IntegrationCurationStorageImport
Sensor Data
Local Stats
Gov. Open Data
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Mobile Apps
Dashboards
Business Intelligence
Social Web Apps
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d'Aquin et al. (2015) Smart Cities' Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Semantic Technologies, IEEE Internet Computingd'Aquin et al. (2014) Dealing with Diversity in a Smart-City Datahub, S4SC
Conclusion
1- Build data infrastructures that are flexible and allow diversity
2- Data sharing enables data analytics
3- => Tackle complex issues in education through making rich data available, to learners, educators and developers, and without a priori judgement of value
What’s the real goal? Supporting the whole lifecycle of learning - from decision to realisation. Systems that can answer queries of the form “I want become X, what should I do?” - This is a data problem...
Thank you!
Alessandro Adamou
Enrico Daga
Carlo Allocca
Shuangyan Liu
Keerthi Thomas
Ilaria Tiddi
Emanuele Bastianelli