[Open-education] Findings from the Open Data in Education Seminar, St Petersburg

[Marieke Guy]

Dear All,

On Monday the Open Education Working Group was represented at an Open 
Data in Education Seminar held in St Petersburg, Russia.

A general write up of the day with links to presentations is now available:
http://linkedup-project.eu/2014/03/14/open-data-st-petersburg/

The day concluded with a discussion on the future of open data in 
education, some of the key points were:

  * Users care too little about technology and technologist care too
    little about use cases. The seminar made apparent the "chicken and
    egg problem of open and linked data" -- the need to find problem to
    solve. The seminar concluded that we need more research in to how
    the technical issues and policy issues interact and that we need
    more end user involvement.
  * The biggest threat for linked data is that it continues to be seen
    as complex and elitist. Training such as EUCLID can help, but there
    needs to be better communication around the benefits of linked data.
  * The biggest place linked and open data can have impact in education
    is in the developing countries. In the western world the potential
    for impact is too little. Efforts may need to be refocused.
  * Data continues to be released in inappropriate formats and in
    inappropriate ways.
  * Linguality continues to be an issue. Data and content needs to be
    made available in more languages.

The LinkedUp Project <http://linkedup-project.eu> will continue to 
explore these issues as part of its research. If you have any comments 
do share.

Thanks

Marieke

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