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UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science ratified
The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science have been unanimously ratified at UNESCO’s 41st General Conference. This landmark document is a major step forward towards creating a world in which better ... -
What is AI today, may not be so tomorrow
Creative Commons have set up four working groups on the Future of Open which have just reported. The working groups are Artificial Intelligence and Open Content Internet Platform Liability Exception ... -
Data governance, management and infrastructure
Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash The big ed-tech news this week is the merger of Anthology, an educational management company, with Blackboard who produce learning technology. But as Stephen ... -
Open Covid Pledge for Research in Education
Pontydysgu are happy to have signed the Open Covid Pledge for Research in Education. Th pledge says" We pledge to make our intellectual property openly and freely available to the ... -
Travel to university time a factor in student performance
My summer morning's work is settling into a routine. First I spend about half an hour learning Spanish on DuoLingo. Then I read the morning newsletters - OLDaily, WONKHE, The ... -
Understanding Labour Market data
The increasing power of processors and the advent of Open Data provides us information in many areas of society including about the Labour Market. Labour Market data has many uses, ... -
Data and the future of universities
I've been doing quite a lot of thinking about how we use data in education. In the last few years two things have combined - the computing ability to collect ... -
Learning about Careers: Open data and Labour Market Intelligence
I've spent a lot of the last two months writing papers. I am not really sure why - other than people keep asking me to and I really do have ... -
New Insights into UK society today from longitudinal research
Understanding Society has published its fifth annual report highlighting some of the new topical policy-relevant research conducted recently using data from the annual survey which began in 2009 with around ... -
Why Open Knowledge?
I like this presentation on Why open knowledge from Martin Weller. And besides the argumentation he has some very pretty pictures.
