RDA - A preliminary study of online "Data Science" courses
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This document summarizes a preliminary study of online data science courses and open educational resources. It finds that universities offer the majority of massive open online courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, edX, and Udacity platforms, covering topics like statistics, data analysis, and data mining. Many open educational resources are also available through repositories like MIT OpenCourseWare, OER Commons, and MERLOT, providing learning materials like course notes, textbooks, and tutorials. The document analyzes the providers, audiences, objectives, formats, and content of existing online data science offerings to identify opportunities for collaboration on open courses.
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Coursera: Data Science specialization
9 courses + 1 capstone project => get a Specialization Certificate
[courses free + 35€/course to get a verified certificate]
Research Data NL: Essentials 4 Data Support
Free online course
Full course: online + face2face (2 days) with certificate (€250, exclusive of VAT)
which objectives? certifying?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/rdaamsterdammoocs-140924162210-phpapp02/85/RDA-A-preliminary-study-of-online-Data-Science-courses-24-320.jpg)
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Use resources from MOOCs, Big Data University, OERs?
Check licences
Collaboratively create one/several online course(s)
On dedicated Moodle platform?
On Big Data University? [Moodle]
Follow the “Creating a course in Big Data University” course
See http://bigdatauniversity.com/contact/to get course added
One/several generic courses, and one per domain (social sciences, environment,…); English and/or other languages
Create Engaging Learning Environments?
Minecraft?
SimCity?
Suggestions](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/rdaamsterdammoocs-140924162210-phpapp02/85/RDA-A-preliminary-study-of-online-Data-Science-courses-34-320.jpg)
RDA - A preliminary study of online "Data Science" courses
- 1. A preliminary study of online "Data Science" courses Valerie Brasse 22-24/09/2014, Amsterdam 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 1
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- 3. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 3 http://www.mysliderule.com/ Search on “data” + free: 367 + certificate: 139 MOOCs -catalog https://learning.accredible.com/courses Number? As of 12/09/2014
- 4. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 4 Open Education Europa: http://www.openeducationeuropa. eu/en/find/moocs Searching on ‘data’: 54 MOOCs MOOCS -catalog
- 5. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 5 MOOCs (a few weeks with a few hours/week): Coursera: “Statistics and Data Analysis”, 56 courses: https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&cats=stats edX: “Statistics & Data Analysis”, 26 courses: https://www.edx.org/course-list/allschools/statistics-data- analysis/allcourses Udacity: “Data science”, 11 courses: https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/data-science E-learning (a few hours): Big Data University: free courses, ~50 courses: http://bigdatauniversity.com/wpcourses/?cat=124 MOOCs –main platforms As of 12/09/2014
- 6. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 6 More MOOcs Source: http://www.technoduet.com/a-comprehensive-list-of-mooc-massive-open-online-courses-providers/
- 7. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 7 MIT’s OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/) OER Commons (https://www.oercommons.org/) MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm) OpenStaxCNX (http://cnx.org/) OpenStaxCollege (http://openstaxcollege.org/) Open Education Europa (http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/find/resources) Main OERs repositories
- 8. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 8 MIT’s OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/ Search on ‘data’: 259 Courses, 21 900 ‘all formats’ OER: MIT’s OCW As of 13/09/2014
- 9. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 9 OER: MIT’s OCW http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-9-0002-statistics- and-visualization-for-data-analysis-and-inference-january-iap-2009/lecture-notes/ As of 13/09/2014
- 10. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 10 Searching on ‘data’: 3968 results OER: OER Commons
- 11. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 11 http://dataintheclassroom.noaa.gov/ DataInTheClassRoom/
- 12. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 12 OER: MERLOT Link to http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15- 062-data-mining-spring-2003/ 2076 results searching materials on ‘data’, different types of materials; for ex:
- 13. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 13 Tool (applet) Sample lesson
- 14. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 14
- 15. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 15 Subject “Mathematics and Statistics”, keyword ‘data’: 102 results, 18 books OER: OpenstaxCNX
- 16. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 16 Open textbook on Introductory Statistics: http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/introductory-statistics OER: Openstaxcollege
- 17. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 17 Open Education Europa: http://www.openeducationeuropa. eu/en/find/resources Searching on ‘data’: 26 resources OER: Open Education Europa
- 18. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 18 More OERs Source: http://www.technoduet.com/25-awesome-open-online-educational-resources-videos-ideas-materials-books-and-more/
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- 20. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 20 by whom? for whom? which objectives? certifying? which success? which form? which platforms? which content? Analysis
- 21. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 21 Universities: Coursera: Caltech, Columbia U., Duke U., Eindhoven U. of Technology, FudanU., Higher School of Economics, Princeton U., Stanford U., Technical U. of Denmark (DTU), U. of Edinburgh, U. of Toronto… edX: Caltech, Delft, Harvard, MIT, Peking, UC Berkeley, UT Arlington, UtAustin… TU Delft / Eindhoven / Twente(as Research Data NL) Schools of journalism: European Journalism Center Knight Centerfor Journalism (University of Texas) Companies or research lab developing tools: Google: Making sense of data -> Google Fusion Tables SAP: open SAP platform (ex: “BI 4 Platform Innovation and Implementation”) IBM: in Big Data University Microsoft: Microsoft Academy with courses on big data, data insights… -> SQL Server, Azure Amazon: Big data on AWS Machine Learning Group at the University of Waikato: (More) Data Mining with Weka Non-profit network of passionate people: School of data (Open Knowledge Foundation) Group of enthusiasts: Big Data University By whom?
- 22. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 22 Higher Education, Vocational Education and Training, Adult Learning, Secondary, Primary? All except Primary in Open Education Europa NODE project targeting grade 6-8 “Preparing for Uni” MOOC (next slide) for secondary Citizens at large? When no pre-requisite needed To be developed to have citizen take advantage of the Open (Government) Data movement? Professionals: Researchers Support to researchers Librarians Journalists -> data journalists a new profession? Computer scientists For whom?
- 23. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 23 Example 1: Preparing for Uni https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/preparing-for-uni-3 University of East Anglia Secondary “Higher education is about learning at a higher level: developing skills relating to critical thinking; holding a supported, substantive argument; analysing and using data or sources critically.” Example 2: Essentials 4 Data Support http://datasupport.researchdata.nl/en Research Data Netherlands, coalition of 3TU.Datacentrum and DANS “for those who provide support to researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data(data support staff)” For Whom?
- 24. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 24 Coursera: Data Science specialization 9 courses + 1 capstone project => get a Specialization Certificate [courses free + 35€/course to get a verified certificate] Research Data NL: Essentials 4 Data Support Free online course Full course: online + face2face (2 days) with certificate (€250, exclusive of VAT) which objectives? certifying?
- 25. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 25 MOOCs in general -see reports: Bill and Melinda Gates foundation: http://www.moocresearch.com/reports Open Education Europa: http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/european_scoreboard_moocs Conference on “MOOCs: What have we learned, emerging themes and what next” (28/01/2014, University of London): http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/en/research-resources/post-event- resources/conferences-and-events/moocs2-resources.cfm And many more… which success?
- 26. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 26 Some data on completion rates (2013): http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html Which success? Zoom on courses with ‘data’ in title: 4.5% -21.7% 91 –6500 students R, computing, DB, statistics, Data Analysis, Data Visualization
- 27. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 27 An example: “A Brief Introduction to Data Science with R”, iSchool(the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University) http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/news.aspx?recid=1439 “The class used the free open-source e-book authored by Stanton (“An Introduction to Data Science”) as a guide, and also examined the R statistical analysis and visualization system.” “While 500 slots were planned, 1,731 requests to participate were received.” “Of the 839 participating (…) 91 students are receiving certificates for completing all course requirements. (That is 21.2% of the 429 actively engaged students and 10.8% of the 839 who signed up).” “Course objective: professional development (61%) Age ranges (of those responding): Which success?
- 28. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 28 MOOC: to animate one, it requires planning -teaching team (to prepare and animate) -community tools Self-paced e-learning: to provide some, it requires a LMS such as Moodle, or a blog/CMS; time to set it up including automatic quizzes, activities, re-use of OERs which form?
- 29. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 29 MOOC platforms: Coursera, edX/ Open edX, Canvas,… eLearning / LMS: Moodle Blogs/CMS: Wordpress, Typo3,… which platforms?
- 30. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 30 Mix of theory + hands-on Theory = statistics, data mining, machine learning... Hands-on = tools to collect data: scraping (import.io,…),... curatedata:Google Spreadsheets, Datawrapper, CartoDB, OpenRefine... analyse data: R,... visualize data: infographics,… Engagement via “Real" projects: Coursolve.org Competition: Kaggle.com (MOOCs in general -Gamification: Angry Birds, Minecraft, SimCity…) which content?
- 31. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 31 Observed content of online “data science courses”, that is to teach “data scientist” skills, matches the description made in http://www.dataists.com/2010/09/a-taxonomy-of-data-science/: “We’ve variously heard it said that data science requires some command- line fufor data procurement and preprocessing, or that one needs to know some machine learning or stats, or that one should know how to `look at data’. All of these are partially true, so we thought it would be useful to propose one possible taxonomy —we call it the Snice* taxonomy —of what a data scientist does, in roughly chronological order: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, Model, and iNterpret(or, if you like, OSEMN, which rhymes with possum).” Which content?
- 32. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 32 Which content? The Data Scientist skills, objectives of courses, can also be summarised by this Venn diagram. http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram
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- 34. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 34 Use resources from MOOCs, Big Data University, OERs? Check licences Collaboratively create one/several online course(s) On dedicated Moodle platform? On Big Data University? [Moodle] Follow the “Creating a course in Big Data University” course See http://bigdatauniversity.com/contact/to get course added One/several generic courses, and one per domain (social sciences, environment,…); English and/or other languages Create Engaging Learning Environments? Minecraft? SimCity? Suggestions
- 35. 22-24/09/2014 OER and MOOCs on data 35 CONTACT me vbrasse@is4ri.com @valcas2000 +33 695 025 600 is4ri.com (website) sometec.eu (blog)