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

Sat May 10 07:51:34 UTC 2014

Hi Otavio,

Just to complete what Marieke says - there are certainly a few datasets that could be of interest in the UK. Nicely enough, as part of the Open Data Challenge Education, the ODI has compiled a set of interesting resources [1], including a list of potentially interesting datasets [2].
With a focus on higher education, one of my favorite dataset is the "Key Information Set" from HESA/Unistat [3]. Also, you can find information about projects funding from RCUK [4] and JISC [5].
That's really focusing purely on the UK (sorry, I don't really know anything about Brazil, even if I would really like to). I know however that the UK tends to be earlier than most other countries in this space, even if many european countries are quickly catching up (see e.g. [6] in France).

Note that several of these datasets are available as Linked Data in the LinkedUp Data Catalogue [7] - and we aim to get more of them by the end of the year.

Hope that helps,
Best,
Mathieu.

[1] https://hackpad.com/Education-Open-Data-Challenge-kLW3ZeR98lj
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aswdg5Zc6wBhdDJsODRYMl9OS1BWY3pwYjVNR2JtSnc&usp=drive_web#gid=0
[3] https://unistats.direct.gov.uk/find-out-more/key-information-set
[4] http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/
[5] http://prod.cetis.ac.uk/
[6] http://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/groups/education-et-recherche
[7] http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/

On 09/05/14 15:04, Marieke Guy wrote:
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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