This is pretty interesting on a number of fronts. Aspire Public Schools, a charter management organization in California with 34 schools, announced it is offering a cloud-based student performance application, Schoolzilla Assessment Explorer, to schools in the U.S. for free. First, it points to the fact that data visualization is this year's trend in cloud applications. Second, it points to what may be an emerging strategy in the push to market learning solutions nationally, as customers will adapt their assessment into a standardized form in order to fit the templates offered by this service. Personally, I think that "data into pretty pictures" (DIPP)* technology is only an intermediate applcation; "data into data" (DID)* applications, which integrate data and make projections or inform decision engines, will be a much more important sector. (* abbreviations are my own invention, not industry standards (yet)).
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