Presentation given at MAC-ETeL 2014 - Education, Teaching and E-learning Conference in Prague, Czech republic. Thursday - Friday, October 16-17, 2014

1. Lessons learnt from
LinkedUp Linking Web data for Education
Marieke Guy
Marieke.guy@okfn.org
MAC-Etel Conference, Prague, October 16-17, 2014

3. LinkedUp
Linking web data for education
● EU-funded project – November 2012 – October 2014
● Aim: forward the exploitation and adoption of public, open data
available on the Web by educational organisations and
institutions
● Project partners: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität (Germany), the
Open University (UK), Open Knowledge, (UK), Elsevier (US), the Open
Universiteit (Netherlands), Lattanzio Learning Spa (Italy).
● Open education data – data related to or used for education
http://linkedup-project.eu

4. LinkedUp
http://linkedup-project.eu
http://linkedup-challenge.org

5. What are out
Outputs?
What is our
impact?

6. LinkedUp Challenge
Three consecutive competitions: Veni, Vidi, Vici
● Looking for interesting and innovative tools and
applications that analyse and/or integrate open
web data for educational purposes
● Aimed at anyone from researchers and
students, to developers and businesses
● From innovative prototypes and tools through to
large-scale deployable systems
● Creating set of ‘open web data success stories’

7. • Call >
• Development
period >
• Submission
date >
• Evaluation >
• Shortlist >
• Deliberation >
• Awards

8. LinkedUp Challenge
Winners – success stories
● Veni winner: Polimedia, a tool that improves
the analyses of radio and newspaper coverage
of political debates in Holland
● Vidi open track winner: TuvaLabs, a tool which
supports improvement of data literacy skills
● Vidi focused track winner: Electronic Discharge
Letter (eDL) mobile app)
● Vici winners will be announced at the
International Semantic Web Conference 2014
next week

9. LinkedUp Catalog
Web datasets relevant to educational
applications
● Catalogue of Web datasets relevant to
educational applications
● Provided according to the standard of the Web
of Data (Linked Data)
● Example data sets: bibliographic, geospacial,
administrative, learning analytics, event related,
TED talks
● Also available on Datahub Linked Education
cloud
● Supported by LinkedUp Devtalk blog

10. http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/

11. Evaluation Framework
For evaluation of open Web data applications
● Consists of predefined evaluation
procedures and benchmarking criteria
● Used in LinkedUp Challenge
● Requirements include: interdisciplinary
coverage, integration of high-quality web
data, integration with local data, context
and filtering, scalability and performance
and multilingualism.
● Reviewed after each stage of the challenge
– resulting in a useful tool

13. LAK Challenge/Dataset
Web datasets relevant to educational
applications
● Linked Data (including full text) of all
publications and journals in the Learning
Analytics and Educational Data Mining
communities
● LAK Data Challenge - annual competition
● Asks “What do analytics on learning analytics
tell us?”
● Interactive LAK Data workshop collocated with
the LAK Conference

14. Open Education Working Group
People, projects and initiatives
● Brings together people and groups interested in open education
● Wants to initiate cross-sector, cross-domain, global activity that
encompasses the various facets of open education
● Active mailing list and Twitter feed, activities are co-ordinated
through bimonthly working group calls
● Includes open data in education, open educational content, open
learning and teaching practices and open
accreditation.
● Activities include events, co-ordination
of projects, handbook, initiatives

15. W3C Group
Open Linked Education community
● Focus point for the community to collect, capture and adopt
practices
● Brings together existing initiatives and practices currently employed
to sharing education-related data on the web
● Includes vocabularies and best practices.
● The LinkedUp consortium will lead the community group from
Summer 2014.

16. Open Education Handbook
Collaboratively written living web document
● Targets educational practitioners and the
education community at large
● Introduction to various open education
topics including open education data, open
education resources, learning and teaching
practice, open source tools and open
accreditation
● Online version and open ebook format
that can be viewed online or printed

17. LinkedUp Toolbox
Support tool for competition organisers
● For open data competition organisers
● Can be applied by those organising
academic or industry competitions
● Has six sections each containing resources:
Competition framework; Evaluation
framework; Guidance schedule; Data;
Promotion methodology; Legal and IPR.
● The resources are available in formats
including video, text, mindmaps, tables,
decision trees and Q&A

18. Coming to an end
With results that will live on…
LinkedUp has:
● Enabled the building of a multi-faceted, global community around
open data in education
● Promoted a clearer understanding of the potential of open data in
education
● Shared a unified project message: that we want to see open and
linked data available in the education space and see it useful
and used