The OpenDCO project focuses on improving digital, transferrable, open data, and smart city-related competences of people interested in seeking job opportunities and careers as Open Data City Officers. The project aims to:
- Develop a self-assessment tool to identify learning gaps in OpenDCO competences and determine individual learning experiences and traits and design learning journeys tailored to the city-specific needs and the individual competence level.
- Realize a modular OpenDCO curriculum that will facilitate flexible learning paths. The OpenDCO curriculum will reflect the vision and intentions of this project.
- Produce digital Open Educational Resources (OERs) for the OpenDCOs’ competences: To implement and deliver the curriculum designed, the OpenDCO Training Kit (TK) needs to be developed which will include all appropriate objects required for the delivery of the course. The TK will address modules that support skills in the following main areas:
- Fundamental competences for smart cities (e.g., SC citizen engagement. SC Business Models, SC Security and Privacy)
- Developing City’s Open Data (e.g., Open Data Essentials, Open Data Quality)
- Exploiting city’s open data (e.g., SC Open Innovation, SC Service co-design, SC Open Data Analytics & Visualization)
- Cases for Cities Open Data (e.g. energy, education).
- Create different teaching and learning activities to address a range of learning needs and styles
- Develop an integrated online platform with adaptability mechanisms to tailor the teaching and learning process to individual learning goals and strategies.
- Pilot the OpenDCO curriculum in 4 project countries with participants from smart cities and produce the first cohort of certified OpenDCOs.
- Evaluate and update OpenDCOs tools, methodologies, platform, curriculum, learning material, and pilot course to identify inadequacies and best practices
- Promote, disseminate and exploit the results at national and European levels.
