Monday Links

4567uetudthjgfjhgIn “Four years into the ebook revolution: things we know and things we don’t know” Mike Shatzkin does a great job of summarizing the state of the trade publishing business. Education Publishers take note – this is your future.

In “Predicting Player Behavior and How Zynga Profits From Data Analysis” John Rice picks apart the Wall St. Journal’s article (paywall) with an eye to education. Talk about data driven business models is all the rage in EdTech – this is what it really looks like. Money quote:

“We feel that a purely data-driven approach has significant promise for creating accurate predictive models of player behavior in games without the difficulties associated with earlier modeling techniques.”

Stephen Coller at the Gates Foundation has a new blog Forking Education about their open source work on the Shared Learning Infrastructure (SLI), the Learning Resources Metadata Initiative (LRMI), and Learning Maps among other things. I’m not sure if the title is meant to evoke poking a fork to stir things up or if it is a bad pun.

I’m involved in the LRMI (which I’ll be blogging about in more detail). I’ll also be speaking about this in the at the Frankfurt Book Fair in two weeks (Hall 4.2 Hot Spot Stage Fri Oct 4th, 4:15 PM).

As I used to say to my kids when I dropped them off at school “Have a great day, if you can’t have a great day have a good day, if you can’t have a good day there is always tomorrow.”

OPOL