What has Open Data got to do with

Education?Community Session, 26 June 2014

Marieke Guy

PRESENTED BY

@mariekeguy

Open Education Working Group

…established to bring together people and groups interested in open education. Its goal is to initiate global cross-sector and cross-domain activity that encompasses the various facets of open education.

http://education.okfn.org

Open Education Pie

• Open data that comes out of education institutions

• Open data that can be exploited/used by education institutions

• Open data that can be exploited/used by education

• Open data…

Advisory Board

General ActivitiesAreas of interest and ideas

● Community building – making contact● Open Education timeline● OKFestival, July, Berlin – Open Education Smörgåsbord● Support for LMRI initiatives, standards, platform for Open

Standards work● OER and small languages and cultures (multilingualism)● Open Education language – making it appropriate for all● Support for member activities e.g. Open Data Ireland

booksprint● Connections with local groups: Belgium, Finland, Brazil

Activities: HandbookThe Open Education Handbook

● A collaboratively written living web document targeting educational practitioners and the education community at large

● Coverage is broad and determined by authors● Kick-started at a series of booksprints and events● Available online for editing in Booktype, open source

book editing software● Translated in to Portuguese, set on Slidewiki● Future plans: glossary, universal style, definitions,

synergies between areas, flow, fact checking, more questions, front end

Booksprints

Working GroupTo get more involved…

You can:● Join our mailing list: http://education.okfn.org/mailing-list

/● Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/okfnedu● Visit our website/blog: http://education.okfn.org/● Edit the handbook: http://education.okfn.org/handbook/● Join our calls:

http://education.okfn.org/working-group-calls/Next one on Tuesday 8th July 3:00pm–4:00pm BST

● See us at OKFest for our Open Education Smörgåsbord http://sched.co/1hgj0q1

● Email me: marieke.guy@okfn.org

Shaping ChangeWith open education data…

Our opportunities for improvement are immense, and data provide a powerful lens to understand how we are doing internally and relative to our peers. This applies across all segments of what we do, from teaching and learning to administrative support. Performance metrics and dashboards are the beginning, but using data to understand deeper correlations and causality so we can shape change will be critical as we strive to advance our effectiveness.

David Lassner, Interim president and former chief information officer at the University of Hawaii

Terms?

open data in education Open education data

open educational data

open data from education

open data that can be used in an educational way

Open Education DataWhat data are we talking about?

● Student data: attendance, grades, skills, exams, homework● Course data: employability related to courses, curriculum,

syllabus, VLE data, number of textbooks, skills, digital literacy…● Institution data: location data, results, infrastructure,

location, student enrolment, textbook budget, teacher details…● User-generated data: learning analytics, assessments,

performance data, job placements, laptop data, time on tasks, use of different programmes/apps, web site data…

● Policy/Government data: equity, budgets, spending, UNESCO literacy data, deprivation and marginalisation in education, participation data…

http://bit.ly/oeh-datasets

Open Public Service NetworkEmpowering Parents, improving

accountability● Report published September 2013 by RSA● Calls for release of data sets: Ofstead, free & private

schools data, teacher survey, parents views● “Dangers of overemphasising the role of school choice

as the main driver of parental interest in information about their children’s schools. It is equally important as contextual information for parents and children wanting to understand their own or their child’s educational progress” (Millar & Wood)

http://bit.ly/opsn-accountability

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

Case studies

http://bit.ly/oeh-datacs

Schule.info

Burkina Faso

hoekiesikeenschool.nl

Equipment.data

RMSchoolfinder

http://theodi.org/education-open-data-challenge-series

http://bit.ly/massedudata

Data hacking challenges

http://bit.ly/oeh-datacomps

http://www.openstockholmaward.sehttp://openeducationchallenge.eu

Open Education Data: QsSome things to think about…

● Government open data reflects actual public policy – what is available is variable

● What data should be collected within education institutions or for assessment?

● How do we evaluate this data? i.e. What makes a good student/citizen? What makes a good school?

● Can open data open up the debate to a wider audience?● Can open data lead to policy change and better

education systems? Worldwide?