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UCL Event: Open Data as Open Educational Resources
By Clive Young, on 12 February 2016
Open Data can be understood as “universally participatory data”, which is openly shared by government agencies, NGOs, academic institutions or international organisations.
Open Data is already being used in Higher Education using real life scenarios, bringing together students, academics and researchers working towards overcoming local and global real problems.
In this way students can develop transversal, research and citizenship skills, by working with the same raw materials researchers and policy makers use, contributing with the society in new and yet-unimagined ways.
There are clear links in this research-based educational approach to UCL’s Connected Curriculum.
In many disciplines, anecdotal evidence from teachers shows that students don’t often see research datasets or the research/lab logs, but these are fundamental tools to comprehend research work, workflow and processes, however, we believe students should be given the opportunity to work analysing datasets to conduct discoveries of their own and/or to attempt the replication of research findings, enabling students to understand good practices in data management and data analysis skills.
UCL is proud to host this event on Friday, 4 March 2016 from 14:00 to 17:00.
Speakers include
- Santiago Martín: University College London
- Mor Rubistein: Open Knowledge Fundation
- Leo Havemann: Birkbeck, University of London
- Dr Carla Bonina: University of Surrey
- William Hammonds: Universites UK
- Dr Fabrizio Scrollini: Latin American Open Data Initiative
- Dr Tim Coughlan: Open University
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