Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering for Open Data Usage in Schools

Abstract

Open Data has been considered as a key to scientific innovations. These openly licensed data-sets can be accessed, used, rebuild, and shared by anyone and anywhere. Mostly, Open Data is discussed in relation to its production, storage, licensing and accessibility, but less often -in relation to its practical subsequent uses, e.g. as an educational resource. In general, Open Data can be used as an open educational resource to develop transversal skills among school students. This paper presents an Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering (EAORE) approach for Open Data usage as an educational resource in Danish public schools. The aim of this research work is to identify requirements of Danish public schools for the development of an Open Data interface. The EAORE approach represents how Enterprise Architecture (EA) models guide overall Requirements Engineering (RE) process for Open Data usage in Danish public schools.

Open Data Interface (ODI) for secondary school education

“…We used a variety of methods and approaches to investigate the research question and evaluate the potential of open data as an educational resource, including surveys, interviews, and observations with teachers and students using the ODI prototype. Saddiqa et al (2019bSaddiqa et al ( , 2019c, Saddiqa et al (2019cSaddiqa et al ( , 2019d demonstrate teachers' perspectives on open data in education and their assessment of open data's potential impact on students. However, in the present study, teachers had the opportunity to interact directly with a range of pre-selected, school-related open data sets through the ODI.…”

“…These include topics such as population, pollution, geographical overview, traffic flow etc. Open data domains that easily could facilitate basic school subjectssuch as mathematics, science, social science, and geographywere identified and discussed in Saddiqa et al (2019b). The study also indicated a need for an interface tailored to educational purposes, i.e., an interface that allows teachers to link their subjects with open data sets suitable for educational purposes.…”

“…There exists a need for an educational interface for schools that allows teachers and students to access educationspecific open data sets, rather than spend time searching for relevant educational data sets through, e.g., national open data portals Saddiqa et al (2019c). Requirement models for such an interface were defined in Saddiqa, Kirikova, & Pedersen (2019b). Based on these requirements, an ODI prototype was developed and presented in Saddiqa et al (2019a).…”

A Game-based Approach for Open Data in Education: A Systematic Mapping Review

“…Watson (2017) proposed helping students to create visualisations using the software TinkerPlots. Finally, Saddiqa et al (2019b) focused on the development of an EAORE Open Data interface to help teachers and school administrators to achieve requirements of Danish public schools.…”

Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering for the Design of a School Friendly Open Data Web Interface

“…The work in this article is an extension of our initial study reported in [1]. As novel contributions, we present (1) a systematic literature review on the use of Open Data in different educational sectors, (2) a research gap identified in exploring the educational opportunities offered by Open Data, and (3) the design and prototype of an Open Data web interface proposed as the result of an Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering (EAORE) process.…”