Oceans of Data

The Oceans of Data Institute (ODI)

is dedicated to transforming education to help people succeed in school, work, and life in a data-intensive world.

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Zoom In! Learning Science with Data

Building high school students’ data skills using authentic Earth Science and Life Science data sets.

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Ocean Tracks

Web-based visualization and analysis tools to create active learning experiences for students.

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Creating Pathways for Big Data Careers

Profiling the work of the "Data Practitioner" to inform Community Colleges' big data courses and programs.

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Real World, Real Science:

Using NASA data to explore weather and climate

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EDC Earth Science

A curriculum that explores current and compelling questions using authentic data.

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What's Happening

New ODI Project Focuses on Nurturing Data Literacy in Elementary Earth Science

ODI was recently funded by the National Science Foundation to study how professionally collected, scientific data can be used to support elementary students (4th graders) to develop data literacy... Read more

NASEM Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education

On June 12, Joyce Malyn-Smith and Randy Kochevar, along with partner colleges Bunker Hill CC (MA) and Sinclair CC (OH), will present at the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Data Science... Read more

NSF STEM for All Video Showcase

Our new 3-minute video about the Zoom In! Learning Science with Data (ZiSci) project is in the 2019 NSF STEM For All Video Showcase . We hope you'll stop by to watch our video, discuss ZiSci and data... Read more

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Projects

Streams of Data: Nurturing Data Literacy in Elementary Earth Science

How do we help students transition from simple data sets that students collect themselves to work with professionally-collected data? Streams of Data will develop and test an approach to support 4th grade students in this transition. We will...

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National Geographic Data Explorations

ODI is collaborating with National Geographic Explorers, educators, and programs to develop three lessons for the National Geographic education resources portal. Designed for use in middle-school classrooms, each lesson uses authentic, scientific...

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Building a Data Science Pathway on California’s Central Coast

EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute is working with participating colleges of the Coast Community College District to strengthen their efforts to develop a regional career pathway for data science specialists. ODI will focus on two goals:...

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Strengthening Data Literacy across the Curriculum (SDLC)

The Strengthening Data Literacy across the Curriculum (SDLC) project is a research study that is funded by the National Science Foundation to develop an evidence-based approach toward promoting statistical thinking and interest in quantitative...

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Blueprints for Exploring Data with National Geographic

In this exploratory project, ODI will collaborate with National Geographic Explorers, educators, and programs to identify specific datasets and “data stories” that would lend themselves to the creation of compelling learning modules for...

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Exploring Urban Mobility: Using Data to Solve Problems of the Future

Our cities are becoming increasingly “connected.” Cars, traffic signals, and even the roads themselves are utilizing new technologies to communicate with one another— transmitting, analyzing, and responding to data. A single connected (wifi-...

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Data Analytics Technician Advancement (DATA) Program

Oceans of Data Institute will partner with Columbus State Community College (OH) in a new ATE-NSF funded project: Data Analytics Technician Advancement (DATA) Program. The project will establish a DATA Pathway in the central Ohio region to...

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Zoom In! Learning Science with Data

The world is increasingly data-driven. To thrive in this world, students a new level of data literacy — the ability to solve problems and support arguments using data.

Zoom In! Learning Science with Data is creating curriculum...

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Real World, Real Science: Using NASA Data to explore Weather and Climate

This NASA-funded collaboration with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) builds on the success of GMRI’S existing LabVenture! Program to create new learning experiences focused on exploring the relationship between weather and climate....

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Creating Pathways for Big Data Careers

To address the urgent and rapidly growing need for workers proficient in the use of Big Data the Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) will work with four community colleges to create a career pathway...

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Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue

ODI and IBM teamed up for a three-day workshop, October 4-6, 2015, which convened a panel of 12 professionals from both data-intensive industries and K-16 education. The...

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An Occupational Skills Profile for the Big-Data-Enabled Specialist

Professionals in many career fields now find that researching, analyzing and integrating data is essential to their work. Much of this change has occurred because of the rise of big data–gigantic data sets that are increasingly informing...

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Ocean Tracks College Edition

Ocean Tracks College Edition (OT-CE) is a three-year research and development project funded by NSF (grant # DUE-1431903), involving a collaboration between EDC and the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ...

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Professional Development to Integrate the Practices of Science and Engineering into Earth & Space Science Education

The Next Generation Science Standards place a strong emphasis on students’ mastery of “practices” of science and engineering. Among these practices is “Analyzing and...

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The Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP)

Awarded in the fall of 2013 by the National Science Foundation, EDC is working with Concord Consortium and the University of Minnesota on the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) project. The CODAP team is developing and classroom-testing...

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EarthCube Education End-Users' Workshop

EarthCube is an NSF initiative to develop a national cyberinfrastructure which will give researchers and students easy access to earth data and models in a way that is intended to catalyze...

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Ocean Tracks: Investigating Marine Migrations in a Changing Ocean

Ocean Tracks: Investigating Marine Migrations in a Changing Ocean (Ocean Tracks) was a two-year Phase I research and development project funded by NSF (grant #1222413). A collaboration between EDC and Stanford University’s Hopkins...

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Bridging the Gap Between Tabletop Models and the Earth System

This classroom research project seeks to understand more about how teachers teach and students learn using physical models in Earth Science. A key finding is that classroom teaching with models tends to be disconnected from teaching with data,...

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FIRE: Making Meaning from Geoscience Data

This laboratory research project seeks to understand more about how students form inferences and interpretations as they view geoscience data visualizations. Individual participants view data visualizations of topography/bathymetry or ocean...

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InTeGrate

InTeGrate is a nationwide effort to transform undergraduate geoscience education in such a way as to increase the flow of individuals with Earth expertise into the employment pipeline and to contribute to solving national grand challenges of...

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Oceans of Data: What Is Needed to Support Students Learning with Large Scientific Databases?

The practice of science and engineering is being revolutionized by the development of cyberinfrastructures for accessing near real-time and archived observatory data. To inform efforts at bridging scientific cyberinfrastructures to the classroom...

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Professional Development to Improve the Spatial Thinking of Earth Science Teachers and Their Students

Spatial thinking involves drawing meaning from the position, shape, orientation, trajectory, or configuration of objects or phenomena. For any kind of data displayed on a map or cross-section, spatial thinking is likely to be an important...

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Data-Enhanced Investigations for Climate Change Education (DICCE)

With support from the National Science Foundation, EDC is working with SRI International and NASA in the development and piloting of interactive websites for high school classroom climate-change investigations. The websites allow high school...

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Other Worlds: Other Earths

The Other Worlds: Other Earths project aims to give high school students first-hand experience in gathering, analyzing and interpreting data. In two laboratory modules, the students use online telescopes to search for exoplanets. During...

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EDC Earth Science

EDC Earth Science, developed as part of the NSF-funded Foundation Science project at EDC (grant #0439443) and published by...

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Featured Resources

Resources for Educators Using Data in the Classroom

Looking for data activities and resources for your classroom? ODI has compiled a collection of ODI and non-ODI resources for teaching with data. Browse below or explore by resource author: ODI Resources | ODI Collaborations | Non-ODI Resources ODI...

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Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue-Workshop Report

What does it mean to be data literate in the world of “big data”? What should we be teaching students to better prepare them to participate in today’s workforce and society? What steps need to be taken to develop critical data literacy skills in...

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Visualizing Oceans of Data: Ocean Tracks – A Case Study

In 2013, the Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) released Visualizing Oceans of Data: Educational Interface Design report, which offers a set of guidelines for designing interactive tools to engage students with data. ODI applied these guidelines during...

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EDC Earth Science

What would it take to colonize another world? What can cause Earth’s climate to change? Will another large earthquake happen in California? How do you find oil? EDC Earth Science takes students on an exploration of these questions and others,...

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