{"id":10388,"date":"2010-10-14T09:16:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10388"},"modified":"2010-10-14T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:23:06","slug":"like-netflix-new-college-software-seeks-to-personalize-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/14\/like-netflix-new-college-software-seeks-to-personalize-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Netflix, new college software seeks to personalize recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/like-netflix-new-college-software-aims-to-personalize-recommendations\/27642\" target=\"_blank\">Like Netflix, new college software seeks to personalize recommendations<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Marc Parry<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Anaheim, Calif.<\/em> \u2014Amazon. Netflix. Google. All personalize recommendations based on what they know about users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A new project, unveiled at the Educause <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/E2010\" target=\"_blank\">conference<\/a> here today, plans to provide college students a similar experience on academic Web sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It\u2019s called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/E2010\/Program\/SESS036\" target=\"_blank\">Sherpa,<\/a><\/strong> like the guides who lead climbers up Mount Everest. The goal of the  software, developed by the South Orange County Community College  District, is to mine data about students to guide them to courses,  information, and services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That\u2019s a change from what students experience starting and finishing  classes on the Blackboard course-management system, said Robert S.  Bramucci, South Orange\u2019s vice chancellor for technology and learning  services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Netflix, new college software seeks to personalize recommendations &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Marc Parry Anaheim, Calif. \u2014Amazon. Netflix. Google. All personalize recommendations based on what they know about users. A new project, unveiled at the Educause conference here today, plans to provide college students a similar experience on academic Web sites. It\u2019s called Sherpa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,432,17,69],"tags":[296,56,775,577,70],"class_list":["post-10388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-technology","category-learner-profiles","category-learning-agents","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","tag-customized-learning","tag-educational-technology","tag-learner-profiles","tag-learning-agents","tag-personalized-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10393,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions\/10393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}