{"id":33247,"date":"2012-10-17T17:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=33247"},"modified":"2012-10-17T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:33:07","slug":"big-data-in-k-12-attack-of-the-recommendation-engines-part-i-heller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/10\/17\/big-data-in-k-12-attack-of-the-recommendation-engines-part-i-heller\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data in K-12: Attack of the Recommendation Engines \u2013 Part I [Heller]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ednetinsight.com\/news-alerts\/hellerresults\/big-data-in-k-12--attack-of-the-recommendation-engines---part-i.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big Data in K-12: Attack of the Recommendation Engines \u2013 Part I <\/a>&#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; from EdNetInsight.com by Nelson B. Heller, President, The HellerResults Group \u2014 Friday, October 12, 2012<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Big Data Meets Education<\/strong><br \/>\nA wave of K-12 entrepreneurial initiatives sees the application of \u201cbig data\u201d as the key to instructional technology\u2019s Holy Grail\u2014intelligent real-time differentiated instruction akin to working one-on-one with a brilliant personal instructor. Investors, aware of the powerful strides made in recommendation engines by Internet giants Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Netflix, and Zynga, as well as for a host of military and commercial applications, see in big data education\u2019s \u201cnext big thing.\u201d In this and my next article, I\u2019m going to explore what\u2019s happening in this arena and in voice recognition technology, which, if you look under the hood, can be thought of as being driven by the same advances in data science and recommendation engines. These articles are based in part on my recent View From the Catbird Seat presentation at EdNET 2012. Read on to see what threats and opportunities this new frontier represents for your own organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Data in K-12: Attack of the Recommendation Engines \u2013 Part I &#8211;&#8211; from EdNetInsight.com by Nelson B. Heller, President, The HellerResults Group \u2014 Friday, October 12, 2012 Excerpt: Big Data Meets Education A wave of K-12 entrepreneurial initiatives sees the application of \u201cbig data\u201d as the key to instructional technology\u2019s Holy Grail\u2014intelligent real-time differentiated [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,298,37,46,206,367],"tags":[778,716,587,4,676,747],"class_list":["post-33247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-data-related-items","category-future","category-k-12-related","category-trends","category-vendors","tag-analytics","tag-data-mining","tag-future","tag-k-12","tag-trends","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33247","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=33247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33250,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33247\/revisions\/33250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}