Introduction

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Purpose

The Open Education Data Dashboard was designed to meet the data collection and tracking needs of those running higher education open education programs. The Dashboard supports data input from program administrators, including data about programs, events, workshops, adoptions, and enrollments; and directly from instructors regarding adoptions, enrollments, and OER reviews.

In addition to supporting your local programming, the collection of OER adoption data in one location - the Open Education Data Dashboard - will allow the OEN community to answer larger questions, such as adoption trends, effectiveness of programs, and identifying subject area gaps in open materials.

Best Practices

The Dashboard was designed to be used to manage your open education programs and data. The open education programs created in the Dashboard are intended to be instructor focused, so program participants should be instructors - not students, staff, or librarians. This will ensure that our metrics of adoption rates, etc. are accurate. Please use the Dashboard for these purposes only.

Data Sharing Between Institutions and Systems/Consortia

The Dashboard is designed to help coordinate work between systems/consortia and the OEN Allied member institutions within their purview - sharing data two ways.

Systems/Consortia
The Dashboard allows systems/consortia dashboard administrators to see program information from OEN Allied member institutions within their network. They cannot change an institution's program details, but they can see/add/change/remove participants and participant data.

Allied Member Institutions
OEN Allied member institutions may see program information from the systems/consortia of which they belong that are OEN members - if that program includes participants from their institution. They cannot change a consortium/system's program details, but they can see/add/change/remove their institution's participants and participant data. They can only see program participants from their own institution, even if there are more participants from other institutions.