Open Education Working Group

Our goal

The main goal of this working group within Open Knowledge Belgium is to incite Belgian Universities and Colleges to open up more data. With this information, students and other interested parties can start working to facilitate student life. This will also increase the student participation.

Manifest

This manifest contains the data of which we believe opening it up could have a positive impact on student life or on the education.

1. List of courses and enrolled disciplines of the person
   • Could be handy for the student associations to know which books the person might need
2. Curriculum
   • Amount of students per discipline
   • Division into diversity groups
   • Teachers, study-credits and study phases
   • Convenient to get an overview of all disciplines within the institution
3. Schedule
   • Always up to date
   • Preferably personal so everyone can enjoy it’s benefits.
   • Students can schedule better.
4. Personal Updates
   • RSS feed-like     - Students are instantly aware of changes to the schedule or new assignments.
5. Library data
   • Opening hours and location
   • Occupancy
   • Students will not be delayed by closed or overly crowded libraries.
6. Student restaurant data
   • Opening hours and location
   • Menu
   • Freshmen can find their way to the student restaurants.
7. Reserving rooms and resources (e.g. iPads and video cameras)
   • Availability
   • API to make reservations
8. Point distribution of the courses
   • Anonymous
   • (In correlation with other subjects that have been taken by the students that have taken this course)
   • Based on this data, students can discover which courses have difficult exams so they won’t be tricked.
9. Who is who data
   • API
   • Students can easily look up information about their teachers.
10. Data about other (campus) facilities that are offered by the university or college
    • Shops etc.