Ed Tech Entrepanoirs
Imagine you're at the Ed Innovation conference. You've just
heard a pitch from a startup. Basically, they wrap whatever
content customers are using in formative and summative
assessments and then use "the big data" to identify which
content is most effective and then recommend it to students,
modified by personalization algorithms based on student
preferences that they've deduced by watching their behavior in
the LMS. "We want to be the Netflix of learning content." Now
you're sitting at a bar with a venture capitalist, a university
provost, and a member of a state legislature. They all think
the pitch from the startup was awesome.
Your job is to explain to these three why the pitch they heard
was not as spectacular as they thought it was, and what a
genuinely good big data pitch would have to look like.
from Michael
Feldstein