Open Government Data in Higher Education: A Multidisciplinary Innovation Teaching Experience

In this paper, we present an innovative teaching project aimed to experiment with the use of open government data in higher education. Differently to previous studies on the topic, our project follows a multidisciplinary approach by conducting and evaluating several learning activities in degree subjects from distinct fields –political science, economics and finance, and computer engineering–, and targeting goals related to the development of professional and technological skills for understanding, accessing, analyzing and exploiting open data. Together with descriptions of these activities, which can be of inspiration for teachers having distinct backgrounds, we report results and valuable findings from a questionnaire-based study with students, providing insights about how to support effective teaching and learning using open data.