Seminario: “The Impact of COVID-19 on Authoring Open Data in High School” di Maria Angela Pellegrino

Abstract: "Open Data are data that can be freely used, created and shared by anyone. Initiatives to let K-12 learners exploit Open Data are rare in literature, and the situation is even worse if we look for opportunities to move them in the position of Open Data publishers. To advance the dialogue around Open Data, HETOR regularly organises workshops with secondary school learners to let them create, publish, and exploit Open Data by SPOD since 2016. While workshops were organised as physical meetings, during the COVID-19 pandemic, HETOR required to revise the performed protocol. This talk reports changes applied to the workshops proposed by HETOR and compares workshops' results before and after the COVID-19. While the quantity and quality of the workshops outcome increased during the workshops that took place after the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrating that Open Data based initiatives can successfully survive in remote settings, quality scores are more heterogeneous during after-COVID workshops demonstrating that remote settings make educational inequalities worse."