Building Fair Data Cultures in HE

Engaging with complexity in the academic

practice
IAU-UOC Series:
Innovative Education for Unshaped Futures

Juliana E. Raffaghelli
Faculty of Psychology and Education– Research Group
Edul@b
Quo
vadis,
NO, wrong recognition
Flickr Delta (2018) CC-BY-2.0

YES, right recognition

data?
Wikimedia Commons, 2018

Facial recognition technology at gate

A Datafied Society

Enthusiasm
European Open Data Portal (Government UE)
European Open Research Data (Research UE)
Everybody Lies (Stephens-Davidowitz, 2017)

Disilluntionment
Weapons of Math Destruction (O’Neill, 2016),
Algorithms of Opression (Noble, 2018)
Surveilliance Capitalism (Zuboff, 2019),
Automating Inequalities (Eubanks, 2019)

THE PANDEMIC & THE PLATFORMS!

 Data infrastructures feeding AI in EU

In search of a balance…

10% SME / 25% LC AI

2-3 mln EU EU 6-9 Asia
12 US

GDPR (+)
 The era of data literacy

● Several authors worked on the concept of Data

Literacy:
○ Maybee & Zilinsky (2015), information cycle;
○ Bhargava & D’Ignazio, civic technology & media ed
(2015)
○ Pangrazio & Selwyn (2019), “personal data literacies”
○ D’Ignazio & Klein, Data Feminism (2020)

● Algorithmic Manipulation requires new literacies

(“Propaganda in an Age of Algorithmic Personalization:
Expanding Literacy Research and Practice”, Hobbs, 2020)

Some contradictions and tensions between the

definitions and the scope of data literacy!
Raffaghelli 2019 -> 20 Data Literacy frameworks
An
interdisciplinary,
glocal, complex
dialogue to define
the needed
literacies
 Netowrking with
https://bfairdata.net/
Erasmus+
FAIR DATA CULTURES
Developing Critical
IN HIGHER
Digital Literacies
EDUCATION
for Teachers
Part of the research Project
“Professional Learning HDI Project
Ecologies for Digital Data Praxis &
Scholarship: Modernizing Politics
Higher Education by
Supporting Professionalism
Italian Association
of Media Education
(Ministry of Science,
Innovation, Technology and
University of Spain), RYC-
Faro Digital &
2016-19589 University
of Barcelona
 Exploring Workshops with
Projects 2015- Educators: Three case
2019 focused studies “Data
Webinar Practices in
Systematic critical data Series “Fair Where are data Higher
Literature literacies Data Cultures in our practices? Education”
Review approaches in Higher Ed”
(Raffaghelli, in press) (Raffaghelli, 2021;
(Raffaghelli & (Raffaghelli et al., two upcoming
Stewart 2019) (Raffaghelli, 2020) 2020) papers)

2018-19 2019 2019 - 20 2020 2021

386 articles 9 Projects, 4 10 Webinars/ 12 Workshops

132 screened scenarios of data with experts from 298 educators Survey (N=1255)
practice: China, US, Data for good in Attachement to
Focus on Open Data, Data in Canada, Education & traditional digital
Technical Data the Society, Uruguay, Italy, Society, the practices,
Literacy Pedagogical Data, Spain contribution of unawareness of
Global South Data Education
10 perspectives platforms
on data
 UNDERSTANDING COMPLEXITY!
Data approaches/mindsets and Access to Data

Proaction
Not only read, but also approriation
and production with open data

Data Science Data as Public Good

Data Viz Open Data, Open Science
Private Public
Data Ethics Data Activism to the access and
Data Justice usage of data (to be opened)

Analyze / Participate in the definition

of data structures critically, to avoid
domination Reaction
 ENGAGING WITH COMPLEXITY
Data approaches/mindsets and Access to Data

Proaction
Technical data Data Literacy
literacy & Open
Education

Data Science Data as Public Good

Data Viz Open Data, Open Science
Private Public
Data Ethics Activism to the access and
Data Justice usage of Data (to be opened)
Data Feminism

Critical/
Open Data for
Personal Data
Citizenship
Literacy Reaction
 The DLMap:   Mapping Data Literacy Practices

Data Literacy in EU: fast progress since 2019

 Faculty Development
to teach in a datafied education System/ for a datafied society

GDPR, EU DIGITAL EDUCATION ACTION PLAN 2021-2027,

DELIVERABLES OF THE HIGH-LEVEL GROUP ON AI

[DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, EVALUATE]

Are educators smart enough?
Inform practices through the (EU, US, LATAM)
regulatory instruments, funding opportunities &
best HigherEd practices

[INFRASTRUCTURE]
Reflecting about data ecosystems and
infrastructures: the relevance of Open Source
moviment
 EU Professional Development
to teach in a datafied education System/ for a datafied society

EU DIGITAL EDUCATION ACTION PLAN 2021-2027, GDPR,

DELIVERABLES OF THE HIGH-LEVEL GROUP ON AI

[SOCIAL IMPACT]
Expected impacts on HigherEd
learners and stakeholders in terms of
literacies -> DigComp 2.2.!

[ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRUST]

Support the development of skills to
engage in participatory systems that
correct the ethical data “bias” but also to
be creative around data.
UOC.universitat jraffaghelli@uoc.edu
@UOCuniversitat jraffaghelli.com
UOCuniversitat bfairdata.net
@Julianar71
References
• Quarati, A., & Raffaghelli, J. E. (2020). Do researchers use open research data? Exploring the relationships between usage trends and metadata
quality across scientific disciplines from the Figshare case. Journal of Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551520961048
• Raffaghelli, J.E., & Manca, S. (2019). Is there a social life in open data? The case of open data practices in educational technology research.
Publications, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7010009
• Raffaghelli, J. E. (2020). Analíticas de Aprendizaje ¿Un continente oscuro? .Smart Papers Edul@b, UOC. Barcelona.
• Raffaghelli, J. E., & Stewart, B. (2020). Centering complexity in ‘educators’ data literacy’ to support future practices in faculty development: a
systematic review of the literature. Teaching in Higher Education, 25(4), 435–455. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1696301
• Raffaghelli, J. E. (2018). Keynote - Por una ciencia abierta y responsable en educación: de la trazabilidad de los datos a su usabilidad. l
congreso nacional de Tecnología y Aprendizaje, IKASNABAR 2018. Leioa: Universidad del País Vasco. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/2Bj31bh
• Raffaghelli, J. E. (2020a). «Datificación» y Educación Superior: Hacia la construcción de un marco para la alfabetización en datos del
profesorado universitario. Revista Interamericana de Investigación, Educación y Pedagogía, RIIEP, 13(1), 177–205. Retrieved from
https://revistas.usantotomas.edu.co/index.php/riiep/article/view/5466
• Raffaghelli, J. E. (2020b). Is Data Literacy a Catalyst of Social Justice? A Response from Nine Data Literacy Initiatives in Higher Education.
Education Sciences, 10(9), 233. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10090233
• Raffaghelli, J. E, Manca, S., Stewart, B. E., Prinsloo, P., & Sangrà, A. (2020). Supporting the development of critical data literacies in higher
education: building blocks for fair data cultures in society. International Journal of Educational Technologies in Higher Education, 17(58).
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docente: el caso de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (UNSA)” KEYNOTE y Actas Congreso Internacional de Innovación en
Educación Universitaria, Arequipa, 5-6 y 12-13 de Diciembre.