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

Fri May 9 18:00:24 UTC 2014

Just received an email with an open data  example using the concept of
"Government as Plataform".
Congratulations Estonia! Anybody know this case ?

http://e-estonia.com/component/e-school/

Regards
Otavio

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From: Otavio Ritter <otavio.ritter at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM
Subject: Friday Chat: Open data in education
To: open-education at lists.okfn.org

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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