[Open-education] Open data potential in higher education

[Marieke Guy]

Earlier this month the ODI, Universities UK and 8 top UK universities 
launched a project to unlock open data potential in higher education:
http://theodi.org/news/odi-uuk-and-top-uk-universities-launch-project-to-unlock-open-data-potential-in-higher-education

It will explore the opportunities open data presents the higher 
education (HE) sector in the UK. The project is called "Creating Value 
from Open Data"

"/The project will see the partners research how open data can bring 
about tangible benefits for UK higher education institutions. For 
example, the project team will initially create an open data application 
to help support the student experience at university. The project will 
explore the practical challenges of developing and implementing open 
data across higher education./

/It will also publish one or more HE datasets, develop custom open data 
training package(s) for HE institutions, create a road map for future 
work developing open data in the sector, and a white paper setting out 
the case for greater open data adoption across HE. The project is due to 
compete in summer 2015./"

I was wondering if any other countries are embarking on similar 
projects? Love to hear about them!

Marieke


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