Education, like many other sectors, is grappling with how and why to use open data – data that is freely available to anyone, anywhere, at no cost.
More and more it is being used and many people are exploring its potential. Some public services have made great progress in using data cleverly, such as in the transport sector where there are a wide variety of route planning apps; in education data is still ripe for the picking.
We have seen data play an increasingly dominant role within education. Teachers are asked to examine different forms of data, to collect it and use it to evidence the things they do. They pore over child performance data, school league tables and exam results to name but a few, to make sense of what is happening in their school.
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