Turning Big Data Analytics into Personal Student Data

The Department of Education's MyData Button, along with Lone Star College System's Educational Positioning System (EPS), transforms big data into personal data that navigates students toward a career. This innovation allows 80,000,000 U.S. students to track, position, and navigate their personal educational journey using their personal data. FedEx and UPS have mastered the art of navigating and tracking billions of critical parcels across the landscape of the world, to move at the speed of business. Mapping education-2-careers at a personal level allows students to coin their own term—moving toward my career at the new speed of education.

Learning Objectives:
* Learn why 95% of systems sold to institutions have actually hindered personalized ownership
* Learn why MyData Button is a breakthrough in the future of personalized education systems
* Understand the effect the MyData Button has on helping students and parents take ownership
* Learn how the MyData Button accommodates FERPA and any other regulations
* Learn how the Educational Positioning System and other new systems operating on the open data framework improve student success, completion, and placement