Open data in education starts to show real traction
One fairly new area that is starting to show real traction in opening up education is open education data. By that we are primarily referring to the open data that comes out of education institutions, be they physical or online. Examples include reference data, such as the location of academic institutions; internal data such as staff names, resources available, personnel data, budgets; course data, curriculum data, and learning objectives; and user-generated data such as learning analytics, assessments, performance data, etc.
In Kenya, the Open Institute used data collected in the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) and the Kenya Open Data Portal to build KCPE Trends, a simple tool designed to visualise various aspects of the Kenyan Certificate of Primary Education. The long-term plan is to deliver targeted interventions to improve subject-level performance in primary schools across the country.
In the UK, the Open Data Institute ran an Open Data Challenge in the area of education. The challenge invited teams to build solutions using available open data to help parents make informed choices about their children’s education by either expressing a preference for a school, choosing a subject or other learning priority, or engaging with the child’s learning. The winning prototype was Skills Route, a service aimed at young people and designed to show them how they are likely to fare on their preferred course at local schools and further education providers.
And more examples in the linked article. There is a definite need for more open data to be made available like this.
#education #opendata
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