Developing Data Literacy Competences at University: the experience of the DEDALUS project

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, data are everywhere becoming more and more important in everyday life. Recently, during the COVID-19 outbreak, data are being used on a massive scale, and having the skills to understand the information conveyed through numbers, percentages and trends curves became essential. From this perspective, data literacy is a competence not only important for those operating in computer science or technological sectors, but it is acquiring a key role in other sectors such as social science, humanities, and journalism. In this paper, we present the DEDALUS project, an EU-funded project aimed at developing data literacy courses for university students. DEDALUS defined a competence framework that identifies a set of competences related to data literacy, to which modular university courses in different disciplines are based upon. The outcomes of the project were piloted in 5 European countries in order to define the implementation strategies that identifies different models of data literacy inclusion in the higher education domain.