This paper (15 page PDF) proposes a Global Data Consortium (GDC) "to democratize access to educational data and leverage the potential of AI to address disadvantages and enhance learning and teaching outcomes for all." According to the proposal, "Participating institutions will gain access to a secure data infrastructure, a community of experts, AI models and algorithms, and opportunities for collaborative research and professional development." The paper cites as examples MOOCdb, which "provided a standardized data schema for data extraction from EdX and Coursera courses," and the MOOC Replication Framework (MORF), "a platform-as-a-service consisting of data as well as experimental and inferential infrastructure." I'm sure I'm not the only one to look at this and see a proposal for universities to pool their data in order to sell it collectively at the highest rate possible. This is from last May but only showed up in my RSS reader today.
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