{"id":45486,"date":"2014-03-26T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=45486"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T21:39:11","slug":"if-the-ny-public-library-can-do-this-with-books-why-cant-a-smart-tv-based-service-offer-this-for-educationally-related-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/03\/26\/if-the-ny-public-library-can-do-this-with-books-why-cant-a-smart-tv-based-service-offer-this-for-educationally-related-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"If the NY Public Library can do this with books, why can&#8217;t a smart TV-based service offer this for educationally-related materials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/03\/24\/new-york-public-library-partners-with-zola-to-offer-algorithmic-book-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New York Public Library partners with Zola to offer algorithmic book recommendations<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gigaom.com by Laura Hazard Owen<br \/>\n<em>The New York Public Library will offer book recommendations to readers through its website via a new partnership with NYC-based startup Zola Books.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Visitors to the New York Public Library\u2019s website will have a new way to decide what to read next: The library is partnering with New York-based startup Zola Books to offer algorithm-based recommendations to readers. The technology comes from Bookish, the book discovery site that Zola acquired earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<br \/>\nIf the New York Public Library can do this with books, why can&#8217;t a smart TV-based service offer this sort of functionality for educationally-related materials?\u00a0 (Or a second screen-based application?) What if MOOCs integrated this sort of recommendation engine and then accessed\/delivered the digitally-based content to you? Some serious personalized\/customized micro-learning.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30701\" alt=\"The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart\/Connected TV\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg 616w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Public Library partners with Zola to offer algorithmic book recommendations &#8212; from gigaom.com by Laura Hazard Owen The New York Public Library will offer book recommendations to readers through its website via a new partnership with NYC-based startup Zola Books. Excerpt: Visitors to the New York Public Library\u2019s website will have a new [&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":[31,72,286,419,180,7,510,327,505,62,69,526,491,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convergence","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-library-librarians","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-online-learning","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-second-screen-apps","category-streams-of-content","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45486","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=45486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45493,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45486\/revisions\/45493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}