The document discusses opening up a university's study information system to make more data available to teaching staff, students, and other interested parties. This could improve organization of studies, decision making, and involve more stakeholders. Some preliminary policy ideas are to make course programs and feedback public under a Creative Commons license, and allow students to publish final theses openly by default. The goals are to improve teaching and supervision through greater data availability.

1. School of
Digital Technologies
DigiÕIS — opening up the
study information system

2. Study information system
• Study programmes and course descriptions
• Courses, enrollments and grades
• Course feedback
• Student data
• Study contracts and invoices
• Applications and documents

3. Could some of this data be …
… open?
… linked?
… visualized?

4. http://dti.tlu.ee/digiois/

5. Goals
• Making the data about the organization of studies available for
teaching stuff, students and other interested parties
• Improving the organization of studies and supervision through
the availability of data
• Improving the decision making processes and involving a larger
group of stakeholders through the availability of data

6. Schedule of courses by semester

7. Teaching by semester

8. Supervising

9. Final theses

10. Predefined queries

11. How to move from software
prototype to policy?

12. Some preliminary ideas for policy
• Course programmes public / under CC
• Course feedback public
• Students publishing their final thesis under CC
• Open should be the default, closed should be an option

13. Thank you!
Hans Põldoja
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
Tallinn University
School of Digital Technologies
http://www.hanspoldoja.net
https://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja
School of
Digital Technologies