The document discusses opportunities and challenges of using linked data in education. It begins by outlining how linked data principles can be useful for sharing educational data by providing background knowledge and common standards and vocabularies. However, it notes that currently only a few datasets are actually reused or linked, in part due to heterogeneity in datasets, unreliable metadata, and a lack of links between datasets. The LinkedUp project aims to address these issues by collecting and profiling open educational datasets, generating links between them, and building applications and tools to help utilize the data. Key activities include developing a dataset catalog, generating topic profiles of datasets, running challenges to identify innovative applications, and engaging stakeholders.