Predicting the Next Big Thing: Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment

Adapting to Learn, Learning to Adapt

The Next Big Thing Adaptive, or personalized, learning is becoming the next big thing in online education. By providing each student with a custom, personalized path through courses and tracking both content covered and level of attained mastery, adaptive learning platforms hold great promise for enhancing student learning and success. Adaptive course content is organized as a set of nodes in a...

THE BIG IDEA Beware the Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing: Position Statements

This panel is a celebration of artiicial intelligence (AI). Basing its claims to interest on the past accomplishments of AI, it highlights some of the new exciting concepts and technologies that compete for the title The Next Big Thing.

The Next Big Thing: Adaptive Web-Based Systems: De Bra et al.: JoDI

At the ACM Hypertext Conference a panel discussed "The Next Big Thing Inc." in the area of hypertext and hypermedia. The Web has been the "Big Thing" during the past 10 years, but its success has also made it very difficult to find the appropriate information in an ocean of over 3 billion pages. Whereas search engines achieve incredible precision, they suffer from the same "one size fits all" a...

A Multiple Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System for Predicting ERP Implementation Success

The implementation of modern ERP solutions has introduced tremendous opportunities as well as challenges into the realm of intensely competent businesses. The ERP implementation phase is a very costly and time-consuming process. The failure of the implementation may result in the entire business to fail or to become incompetent. This fact along with the complexity of data streams has led ...