A Comparative Study of Open Education Data between China and UK*

Abstract

Open education data is one of the important measures to ensure education equity and promote lifelong learning. The UK government's practice of open education data is at the forefront of the world, which can be used as reference for China's implementation of the “Education Informatization 2.0 Action Plan.”. This paper introduces the UK government's open education data by means of network survey, literature analysis and comparative analysis, including concept definition, type distribution and typical application. The development of open education data in the UK has been quite in-depth and extensive, and has achieved practical results. China has a big gap in terms of open scope, data quality, data standard, development and application, and should refer to and learn from international advanced experience and practices.