Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Open Data as Open Educational Resources

I came across an interesting blog post by Marieke Guy on the Open Education Working Group blog that addresses the idea of using open data as a form of OER.  Open data is gaining rapid traction as essential to good research practice as funding agencies are demanding that research data be made available for verification, transparency, and reuse. This blog post addresses how using open research data can improve student learning, research and literacy skills.  This is an article that I will be bookmarking!

Read the post here:
The 21st Century’s Raw Material: Using Open Data as Open Educational Resources

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