[Open-education] Open education data at LTI NetworkED Seminar series

Wed Nov 12 09:01:18 UTC 2014

Dear All,

We'll be discussing 'open data in education' as part of the LSE LTI 
NetworkED Seminar series 
<http://lti.lse.ac.uk/events/networkED-seminar-series-20.php> in London 
on Wednesday 26 November 5:00pm -- 7pm.

The talk followed by a Q&A session is on Open Data in Education and will 
be live streamed and recorded for those who can't make it.

More details are available on the Open Education blog 
<http://education.okfn.org/open-education-data-at-lti/>.

The event is free to attend and places can be reserved by emailing 
imt.admin at lse.ac.uk <mailto:imt.admin at lse.ac.uk>.

Here's the full abstract:

/Data is very much the flavour of the month, from discussions around 
data mining and monetisation of data, to privacy issues and monitoring. 
But what exactly is open data and how does it relate to education? What 
type of data sets are we talking about and how are they being used? How 
can open data be used to meet educational needs? Is it just about 
accountability and transparency, or is there more to it? What about 
learning analytics? What are the implications of tracking our students? 
Where does the true potential lie? It clear that open education data 
sets are of interest to a wide variety of people including educators, 
learners, institutions, government, parents and the wider public. 
Marieke Guy will give an overview of the situation as it now stands and 
prompt us to consider what the implications are for those of us working 
in Education./

Thanks

Marieke
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Marieke Guy
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