Our group has been working on different initiatives to produce useful open data to end users. One of them is the collection and monitoring for assessment and evaluation, Another one focuses on the integration and search of OER (Open Educational Data). In this post, I will focus on a third initiative, where we extract existing…
Read MoreOpen Educational Resources (OER) are often defined as freely available material, in some kind of media, to support teachers and students on the task of learning some subject. These resources are valuable material that any teacher could use in its teaching activities. However, despite having many existing available repositories hosting these kind of resources, it…
Read MoreInteroperability been data formats/metadata/applications has always been a research subject that I am interested on. Without searching very hard, I’ve found 4 of my publications with interoperability in the title! There are so many solutions covering different aspects, which makes it very hard to choose amongst the best data-format-application-framework-query-language-etc. We defined, with a MsC studeng…
Read MoreDeveloping Open Data solutions is often challenging for different reasons. The first challenge, once the application is defined, is to get the correct data source and to process it in some useful way. There are several Open Data governmental initiatives worldwide, such as the ones from Brazil, USA or UK (to name only 3). Two…
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