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

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.

List of contents

State of Open and Linked Data for Education.- Applications of Open and Linked Data in Education.- Teaching (with) Open and Linked Data. 

About the author

Mathieu d’Aquin, The Open University, UK
Dmitry Mouromtsev, University ITMO, St. Petersburg

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mathieu d¿Aquin (Editor), Mathieu d’Aquin (Editor), dAquin (Editor), D'AQUIN (Editor), Mathieu D'Aquin (Editor), Dmitr Mouromtsev (Editor), Dmitry Mouromtsev (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319304922
• ISBN: 978-3-31-930492-2
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 11 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 325 g
• Illustrations: VII, 189 p. 76 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; B, Künstliche Intelligenz, Lehrmittel, Lerntechnologien, E-Learning, Data Mining, Datenbanken, Artificial Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Informationsrückgewinnung, Information Retrieval, Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme, computer science, Information Retrieval, Database Management, Open Educational Resources, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Computer and Information Systems Applications, database programming, Application software, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Computers and Education, Education—Data processing, Internet searching, Expert systems / knowledge-based systems, Information Storage and Retrieval, Databases, terminology extraction