Tutorial given at LAK13 conference, Leuven, April, 9th, 2013.

The presentation is informed by WP2 of the LinkedUp-project.eu that develops an Evaluation Framework for Open Web Data (Linked Data) Applications for Education purposes.

http://portal.ou.nl/documents/363049/3f85a4f6-e10f-4149-ae8f-aade78f37708

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Drachsler, H., D'Aquin, M., Dietze, S., Herder, E., (2013). Evaluation of Linked Data Tools for Learning Analytics. Presentation given at Linked Data for Learning Analytics workshop at 3rd Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 9th of April 2013.

The LinkedUp project is very pleased to announce the launch of the LinkedUp Challenge. This is a series of three competitions (Veni, Vidi, and Vici) promoting the innovative use of linked and open data in an educational context.

The LinkedUp team invites anyone, from researchers and students, to developers and businesses, to join the first 'Veni' competition. Anyone can participate by building prototypes, demos and innovative tools that exploit, use, integrate or analyse large scale web data for educational use.

Some very attractive prizes are only one reason to join and participate in the challenge. It is also a great opportunity to work with a large, documented repository of linked datasets that the LinkedUp team is putting together. The consortium is also able to offer dedicated access to so far non-public resources. The challenge allows participants to showcase their ideas and solutions to a wide community of researchers and practitioners. For businesses as well as researchers, this will be a great opportunity to present their company and enhance their network. For people working in academia, the challenge will provide a wealth of material and opportunities for experiments and publications.

While the LinkedUp team already identified and connected many educational and non-educational resources to work with, participants can also use and connect their own material or other data sources. Anyone is free to showcase their creativity and solutions as long as the application is relevant to education in the broadest sense of the word. There are also some high profile use cases of established organisations made available that can serve as inspiration for innovative applications. Join today!

●      Find out about the LinkedUp challenge

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●      Follow @linkedupproject and #linkedupproject

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●      Get more information about the LinkedUp Project

Important dates

●      March 2013: Launch of the Challenge

●      May 2013: Release of the comprehensive LinkedUp dataset

●      27 June 2013: Submission deadline

●      1 September 2013: Notifications and Nominations

●      17 September 2013: Presentations and award ceremony

Join the challenge today!

First insights into a GCM study for the design a community agreed Evaluation Framework for the upcoming LinkedUp data competitions. The presentation was given for WP2 of the LinkedUp project at Elsevier HQ, Amsterdam. The Evaluation Framework also provides an interesting solution for standardising Learning Analytics research by comparing the results of different Applications in that domain.

Here a link to the file:

http://portal.ou.nl/documents/363049/8207530e-586d-49ed-a3ef-17f47ccedeac

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Drachsler, H. & Stoyanov, S. (2013, 25th February). Design of an Evaluation Framework for Open Web Data Applications, Presentation given at the LinkedUp project meeting at Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

http://portal.ou.nl/documents/363049/8207530e-586d-49ed-a3ef-17f47ccedeac

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Drachsler, H. & Stoyanov, S. (2013, 25th February). Design of an Evaluation Framework for Open Web Data Applications, Presentation given at the LinkedUp project meeting at Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The daily work practices of researchers have changed during the last decade and with the development of the Web 2.0 services. Those changes affect the way researchers create and consume content, access information, network and collaborate in the scientific context nowadays. Today, many interactions between researchers are mediated by technology and many of those technologies can be categorized as being Social Media (Reinhardt, 2012).

These developments require from researchers to disseminate their articles, software and presentations to many internal (Dspace.ou.nl, Open U, yammer, Programme blogs and micro blogs) and external services (slideshare.com, personal or professional blogs and micro blogs, repositories like Mendeley, Research Gate and social networks like Linkedin or Facebook).

Managing all these services is a very time intesive but important task for a researcher nowadays. In order to improve this situation tools are available on the Web that update different Web 2.0 services from only one interface. Examples for such tools are http://ping.fm or http://www.retaggr.com they can be used to post a single message across multiple Web 2.0 services.

Although there are powerful tools available on the Web they have three major disadvantages for researchers:

1. They do only partly address the needs of researchers, as they only support the most used social media services and not the researcher specific ones rather internal information channels.
2. They only posting text messages to different Web 2.0 services, they do not provide the upload of articles or presentation as PDF files to suitable Web2.0 services like slideshare.net, scribd or Mendeley. esp. in the OUNL case these services do not provide support for Dspace.ou.nl, Open U communities or yammer.
3. There is security risk, as the users have to provide all account information including their passwords of the target Web 2.0 services to the dissemination tool.

These issues motivated the internal CELSTEC DONE! Project, that developed a customised Social Media Publishing tool for the Open U environment to disseminate articles, presentation, or software from one tool to multiple internal and external social media services. For the first release the following services has been taken into account:

1. Twitter
2. Slideshare
3. Scribd
4. Mendeley
5. Facebook
6. LinkedIn
7. Dspace
8. Open U communities
9. Yammer
10. Wordpress and other blogging systems
11. Research Gate (pending due to missing API interface)

The Social Media Publishing tool is now available for CELSTEC employees and the WeSPOT project as tessting alpha version  in the menu bar of portal.ou.nl:

The following presentation can provide some more background infos for the Open Science initiative at CELSTEC.

This presentation shows the vision of the Open University for Open Science in the upcoming years.

The presentation was given as elevator pitch for the OUNL Management Board.

http://portal.ou.nl/documents/363049/ff7a3426-ce4a-4081-900d-f7d352046c62

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Drachsler, H. (2012, 06 December). Open Science. Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, Netherlands.