If a couple of years ago, many officials, journalists, developers, in conversations about open data, asked again what it was, then recently the situation has begun to change and straighten out.
There are no less questions - they are different. For example, over the past 3 months I have been engaged in the fact that I regularly gave lectures at the Open Data School, at non-profit organizations, conferences, and as part of training programs for civil servants.
In all cases, there are features:
- non-profit organizations almost always have no resources and complain about the lack of developers
- civil servants rarely know how to program themselves and most often say that they use computers only as typewriters
- developers rarely know where to get data and most often ask questions about this topic
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And in all cases there are always many questions about how
open data differs from
freedom of access to information , what open licenses are and why they are needed, and what projects are created on open data.
All this was as an introduction, and as a development we collected a small list of educational and outreach projects in this area that may be of interest to all. All selected courses are free and open.
Open data
School of Data (OKF)

School data from the Open Knowledge Foundation. The first school is dedicated to open data. Many online courses in webinar formats.
Link:
schoolofdata.orgSchool of open data (Infoculture)

The school is in the course of 2013 in offline mode. All lectures are recorded on video and laid out online.
The school examines issues of data openness, definitions, legislation, data visualization, technological aspects such as SPARQL and the Semantic Web.
To date, 7 events have been held, 6 lectures have already been published.
Links:
www.opendataschool.ruSchool Channel on YoutubeFree licenses
School of Open from P2P University

Exploring the practice of openness in the School of openness.
A total of 19 courses on open licenses, open science, Creative Commons, writing articles for Wikipedia and much more.
Link:
p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/Open Educational Resource University

Learning the concept of open educational resources, copyright and Creative Commons licenses to achieve a more sustainable education for all.
Link:
Open Content Licensing for EducatorsProgramming
Capitol Words API

An example of a course on working with APIs on open data from the Sunlight Foundation and on their Capitol Words project based on an analysis of the speeches of congressmen and senators. The course is indicative of how to do courses on open APIs.
Reference:
Codeacademy CourseUndoubtedly courses, including free ones, are much more. I invite everyone to share links to those that you know and that directly relate to the topic of open data.