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The Power of Open Education Data

The White House’s Chief Technology Officer Todd Parks and Deputy Superintendent of Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education just published a news release in advance of the Open Data – Datapalooza event that Navigation North will be attending tomorrow at the White House.

Here is an excerpt focused on the work Navigation North is doing in this space. (full article can be accessed below)

“the Education Data Initiative will include work to develop a common trust mechanism for schools that want to exchange student data with each other and other qualified parties, and to promote the newly developed Learning Registry—an open-source technical system to help educators and learners use and share digital content—which can help fuel the next generation of educational technology services and tools.”

The Power of Open Education Data