Open Data for Education: Linked, Shared, and Reusable Data for Teaching and Learning

✍ Scribed by Dmitry Mouromtsev, Mathieu d’Aquin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9500
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015.

In the first part of the book, two chapters give different perspectives on the current use of linked and open data in education, including the use of technology and the topics that are being covered.

The second part of the book focuses on the specific, practical applications that are being put in place to exploit open and linked data in education today.

The goal of this book is to provide a snapshot of current activities, and to share and disseminate the growing collective experience on open and linked data in education. This volume brings together research results, studies, and practical endeavors from initiatives spread across several countries around the world. These initiatives are laying the foundations of open and linked data in the education movement and leading the way through innovative applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the Use of Linked Open Data in Education: Current and Future Practices....Pages 3-15
Educational Linked Data on the Web - Exploring and Analysing the Scope and Coverage....Pages 16-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
ECOLE: An Ontology-Based Open Online Course Platform....Pages 41-66
Use of Semantic Web Technologies in the Architecture of the BBC Education Online Pages....Pages 67-85
Towards a Linked and Reusable Conceptual Layer Around Higher Education Programs....Pages 86-102
Collaborative Authoring of OpenCourseWare: The Best Practices and Complex Solution....Pages 103-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Teaching Linked Open Data Using Open Educational Resources....Pages 135-152
On Some Russian Educational Projects in Open Data and Data Journalism....Pages 153-165
The Open Education Working Group: Bringing People, Projects and Data Together....Pages 166-187
Back Matter....Pages 189-189

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computers and Education; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery