[Open-education] Friday Chat: Open data in education

Fri May 9 14:04:30 UTC 2014

I should also have mentioned the School of Data work:
http://education.okfn.org/school-of-data-using-education-data/

Marieke

On 09/05/2014 14:09, Marieke Guy wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
>
> Some great questions.
>
> These are definitely the sort of discussions we'd like fed in to the 
> Open Education Handbook 
> <http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/why-write-an-open-education-handbook/> 
> we are collaboratively writing - see the section on open data - it 
> needs a lot more work. I tried to sum up some of the current 
> initiatives in a post on open education data 
> <http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/guest-post-open-education-data/>.
>
> I can point you to a few posts we've had that start to look at what 
> open education can achieve:
>
>   * http://education.okfn.org/open-education-holland/ - Alette
>     Baartmans talked about activities that Open State has been leading
>     as part of the Open Education Data Network.
>   * http://education.okfn.org/open-education-tanzania/ - Ben Taylor
>     wrote about  Shule.info which uses open education data from the
>     Tanzanian government to compare Form Four exam results
>
> There is also the Education Open Data Challenge 
> <http://theodi.org/education-open-data-challenge-series> from the ODI, 
> which is competition looking specifically at this area. Is the World 
> bank SABER Project <http://saber.worldbank.org/index.cfm> doing 
> something similar to the OECD GPS project?
>
> I'm sure people can point to a lot more activity and debate that's 
> going on. Long-term I'd like to see some sort of data census (similar 
> to the Open data index <https://index.okfn.org>) going on.
>
> Marieke
>
>
>
>
>
> On 09/05/2014 13:06, Otavio Ritter wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> My name is Otavio Ritter and I am a researcher at the Getulio Vargas 
>> Foundation (an university) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
>>
>> I am working on a paper doing a comparative analysis of school open 
>> data use in England and Brazil and the availability (transparency) of 
>> government information related to primary/secondary education area.
>>
>> My intent is to focus on administrative data (including pupil/social 
>> data) and its externalities: schools (pupil data analysis), parents 
>> (choice), community (social accountability/active 
>> engagement), government (policy outcome analysis), innovation (open 
>> data products, hackathons, civil entrepreneurs).
>>
>> I would be interested in data-oriented debates like  "where the 
>> education money goes? what is the cost per pupil?", "what is my 
>> school quality or outcome?", "Who sponsor academies? With how much 
>> public money?", "Schools in my area have social stratification?", and 
>> other examples to foster accountability, better public policy 
>> planning and evaluation, and analysis within an area that is critical 
>> for all countries in the world.
>>
>> For instance Education GPS from OECD is a initial effort to create 
>> this debate using open data within education. 
>> http://gpseducation.oecd.org/
>>
>> I saw that this group has a lot of information and debate about Open 
>> Education Resource (OER) but I would like to propose the discussion 
>> about incentives, uses, externalities, unintended consequences of 
>> publishing/releasing open data in the education system (specially 
>> within primary/secondary levels).
>>
>> What say you ?
>>
>> Best Regards from Brazil!
>>
>> Otavio Ritter
>>
>>
>>
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