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Engagement in Open Data Workshops

The Dark Side of Remote Settings

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Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops - 13th International Conference (MIS4TEL 2023)

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Abstract

The increasing availability of Open Data gives birth to a fertile field for interested stakeholders to create value out of them; however, limited technical expertise and poor awareness are crucial barriers to their exploitation. Because of these reasons, there is an urge for learners to acquire data and information literacy competencies, which are essential for 21st-century skills, and become familiar with available Open Data sources and their potential uses. To promote the dialogue around activities to boost recognition of Open Data and improve users’ skills to work with them, we proposed a series of workshops to introduce Italian high school learners to searching for, authoring, and building effective communication based on Open Data. This article describes an ongoing activity and details its organization, reports preliminary results on learners’ engagement, and discusses both challenges of the remote setting as well as promising learning outcomes.

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Notes

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    https://dati.regione.campania.it/opendata.

  2. 2.

    https://www.mentimeter.com/.

  3. 3.

    https://data.world/laurel/world-happiness-report-data.

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    https://www.bimed.net.

  5. 5.

    This number was highly variable during the two-hour lesson.

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Acknowledgement

I would like to express my appreciation to BIMED, represented by its president Andrea Iovino, for allowing me to conduct the research upon which this article is based. Further, I sincerely thank Maria Angela Pellegrino, who participated in the activity discussed in this paper and contributed valuable insights and feedback.

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This work has been partially supported by the spoke “FutureHPC & BigData” of the ICSC - Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing funded by European Union - NextGenerationEU.

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    Alessia Antelmi

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Zuzana Kubincová

  2. University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    Federica Caruso

  3. Universitetet i Tromsø (UiT) – Norges arktiske universitet, Tromsø, Norway

    Tae-eun Kim

  4. Technical University of Sofia , Sofia, Bulgaria

    Malinka Ivanova

  5. Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Coppito, Italy

    Loreto Lancia

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, FISCIANO, Salerno, Italy

    Maria Angela Pellegrino

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Antelmi, A. (2023). Engagement in Open Data Workshops. In: Kubincová, Z., Caruso, F., Kim, Te., Ivanova, M., Lancia, L., Pellegrino, M.A. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops - 13th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 769. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42134-1_33

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