Announcing the OKFN & P2PU School of Data!

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“Today, we’re announcing plans for a School of Data. The School will be a joint venture between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)... The explosive growth in data, especially open data, in recent years has meant that the demand for data skills — for data “wranglers”2 or “scientists” — has been growing rapidly... However, there is currently a significant shortfall of data “wranglers” to satisfy this growing demand, especially in civil society organisations — McKinsey expects a skills shortage in data expertise to reach 50-60% by 2018 in the US alone... What is needed are flexible, on-demand, shorter learning options for people who are actively working in areas that benefit from data skills, particularly those who may have already left formal education programmes... At this stage, we are seeking volunteers to help us develop the project. Whether you would like to design educational materials, construct learning challenges, donate money or mentor on the course, we’d love to hear from you! Equally, if you are part of an organisation which would like to join with the Open Knowledge Foundation and P2PU to collaborate on the School of Data, please do get in touch...”

Link:

http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2012/02/08/announcing-the-okfn-p2pu-school-of-data/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.comment oa.oer oa.courseware oa.education oa.fundraising oa.okfn oa.p2pu oa.volunteers

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:12

Date published:

02/09/2012, 14:43