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Dr Jackie Carter Mimas, University of Manchester, UK E: jrter@manchester.ac.uk T:JackieCarter

Adapting to an open data world: delivering international data for education and research in the UK. Dr Jackie Carter Mimas, University of Manchester, UK E: j.carter@manchester.ac.uk T:JackieCarter. Acknowledgments:. Simon Industrial Fellowship Fund, University of Manchester, UK

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Dr Jackie Carter Mimas, University of Manchester, UK E: jrter@manchester.ac.uk T:JackieCarter

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  1. Adapting to an open data world: delivering international data for education and research in the UK Dr Jackie Carter Mimas, University of Manchester, UK E: j.carter@manchester.ac.uk T:JackieCarter

  2. Acknowledgments: Simon Industrial Fellowship Fund, University of Manchester, UK ESDS-International Team RSS getstats campaign Open University SCORE Teaching Fellowship Programme World Bank

  3. Outline of Talk • What’s Mimas? What’s ESDS? Who am I? • What’s happening in the UK? • Royal Statistical Society (RSS) getstats • Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) and British Academy • Open University Teaching Fellowship Project • Open Educational Resources (OER) • Statistical literacy & sharing best practice • Adapting to an open data world

  4. 1. What’s Mimas?

  5. mimas.ac.uk

  6. A Nationally designated data centre A Centre of Excellence based in the University of Manchester An organisation of uniquely skilled experts A provider of world-class data and information resources to support research, learning and teaching

  7. mimas.ac.uk/about/partners

  8. mimas.ac.uk/about/portfolio

  9. 1. What’s ESDS?

  10. The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)www.esds.ac.uk • national data archiving and dissemination service for social science data • principal data service for UK academic social science community • core archiving services plus four specialist dataservices • ESDS International • ESDS Government • ESDS Longitudinal • ESDS Qualidata provide: • dedicated web sites • data and documentation enhancements • user support • training

  11. www.esds.ac.uk/international

  12. ESDS International • is run by Mimas and UK Data Archive • promotes the use of international datasets in research and teaching across a range of disciplines • provides free web-based access to key international macro level databanks • helps users locate and acquire international micro level datasets • Freely available to UK FE and HE – open data is open access! • Authenticated via federated access (Shibboleth) and ESDS online registration • Delivered via Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server (WDS) – moving to .STAT • Download formats include *.xls, *.csv and *.ivt

  13. Aggregate data portfolio … ESDS International provides free online access to the full versions of the latest releases of these databases to the UK academic community.

  14. Aggregate data portfolio (cont)

  15. ESDS-I Value-Add • Academics value: • being able to search and access all the data using a single interface • helpdesk – authoritative advice • dataset and software user guides www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/dataset_guides.asp • www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/software_guides.asp • video help guides esds.ac.uk/International/support/video-guides.asp • training www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/teach.asp • Annual conference to meet with data providers, give early career researchers opportunity to present • www.esds.ac.uk/international/news/confproc.asp

  16. Source: ESDS Annual Report 2009-10: http://www.esds.ac.uk/news/publications/ESDSAnnualReport2009-2010.pdf

  17. Foreign direct investment in particular ranked highly across all the frequently selected countries. Series relating to education are of particular interest, in particular expenditure on education, and educational outcomes such as attainment and the fraction of the labour force with a secondary education. What do Academics Want? Research requirements for cross-national data. Russell, Murphy, Gemmell (3rd OECD World Forum, Busan, 2009) http://bit.ly/yPjOr7

  18. http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/news/mapusage.asp?print=1http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/news/mapusage.asp?print=1

  19. http://www.esds.ac.uk/resources/datainuse/casestudies.asp

  20. The UK Data Service • A new UK Data Service (UKDS) is being commissioned for launch in Fall 2012 • The new service will bring together current ESRC data services into a single resource to provide a more unified, simpler and seamless access to data resources • This includes the data currently hosted by ESDS International

  21. 1. Who am I? • Senior manager for socioeconomic data and learning and teaching services • Director for Jorum (jorum.ac.uk) a national teaching and learning repository • Teaching Fellow for the Open University’s Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) • Interested in use of data in teaching

  22. 2. What’s happening in the UK?Royal Statistical Society RSS

  23. www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/161599/new-campaign-offers-tips-to-help-journalists-get-their-numbers-straight/www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/161599/new-campaign-offers-tips-to-help-journalists-get-their-numbers-straight/

  24. 2. What’s happening in the UK?Funding for Quantitative Methods (QM) • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and British Academy • Curriculum Innovation and Research Developer Initiative • ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative • Nuffield Foundation • QM for undergraduate social scientists

  25. Quantitative Social Sciences: A Strategically Important and Vulnerable Subject Area

  26. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and British Academy www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/funding-opportunities/15407/latest-opportunity-13.aspx

  27. Curriculum Innovation

  28. Curriculum Innovation

  29. Researcher Developer Initiative (RDI)

  30. Researcher Developer Initiative (RDI)

  31. www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/press-releases/19172/technology-boost-for-maths-skills.aspxwww.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/press-releases/19172/technology-boost-for-maths-skills.aspx

  32. Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (phase 1) www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/funding-opportunities/19214/secondary-data-analysis-initiative-phase-12012.aspx

  33. Nuffield Foundation (‘imminent’) www.nuffieldfoundation.org/quantitative-methods-undergraduate-social-scientists

  34. ESDS-I Value-Add for Teaching • Usage Aug 2010 – Jul 2011 • Countries and Citizens:  Unique page views: 15,928 • UNMDGs: Unique page views: 3,294 • Teaching Tools: Unique page views: 2,325 (from 28 Oct 2010) Developed by Susan Noble and Richard Wiseman Received e-learning commendation by Economics Network

  35. 3. Open University Teaching Fellowship

  36. The aims of this project are to share teaching resources and expertise in those institutions already working to upskill students in QM; and to focus on resources that address global issues by using real world data The resulting open educational resources (OER) will be accompanied by ‘stories’ or narratives of exemplar usage, engaging social science learners with QM. The focus will be away from economics and psychology

  37. Progress to date • Interviewed: • Staff from 6 universities • Leeds Metropolitan, Plymouth, London School of Economics and Political Science, Cardiff, Manchester Metropolitan, University of Manchester • Policy related – Save the Children • RSS Statistical Education Centre • Attended: • BBC Data Journalist course – Sources, Scoops and Spreadsheets • Planned: • NCRM (National Centre for Research Methods) colleagues in Southampton • Speak to all RDI/CI award holders • Involvement in an RDI bid at University of Manchester • Speaking at: • OER12 conference, Cambridge, UK 2012 • 2012RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Sydney, July 2012

  38. Findings to date • Few lecturers are using data at undergraduate level in social science classes (except economics) • If data used, mainly in lectures – hands-on is difficult • Students hard to enthuse with data • But the innovative lecturers are attempting to do this • Sharing of open educational resources • It’s going to be a long hard slog! • BUT willingness to share amongst peers as long as attribution is clear • Link to skills and employability is important

  39. Some outputs www.scoop.it/t/statistical-data-literacy Carter, J., Noble, S., Russell, A., Swanson, E. (2011). Developing Statistical Literacy Using Real World Data: Investigating Socioeconomic Secondary Data Resources used in Research and Teaching International Journal of Research & Method in Education, Taylor & Francis.

  40. What about openness? • Is open a step too far for some? • Where to share? • How to develop a community • It’s about open practice not just open educational resources http://bit.ly/vFwt32

  41. Sharing on the commons

  42. 4. Adapting to an open data world • Open data under open licenses • Open data under open technologies

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