{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Transformative Principal","title":"Using Data To Find The Perfect College with Dave Hurwitt Summer of AI Series Transformative Principal 541","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1710,"description":"Dave Hurwitt is an innovator. Over the course of his career, he’s led the development and launch of new products and services – from toothpicks to wind turbines – that have generated well over $1 billion in sales. \nHaving worked in admissions through grad school, he was amazed by how little technology and the internet had impacted the college search and admissions process. And even more, he was dismayed to discover how often students were transferring or dropping out altogether. \nIn early 2020, this led directly to his founding Troove, a 2-sided, AI-powered platform to help students discover their passions, people, and place based on the real experiences of recent alumni and current higher education students.\nThis episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. \nHow Troove works\nTake the idea of suggestions from Netflix or Amazon and apply it to college.\n15-minute quiz, how do you ask the right questions to get the answers that make sense of the patterns?\nAt any school, there is an in and out of the classroom experience and culture.\nLess self-awareness.\nFinding experts who can explain psychological safety.\nKeep layering in more and more data.\nSocial culture preferences and learning culture preferences.\nDoesn’t have to be complete to start.\nContinue to explore the good stuff.\nOpen to sharing data and information about yourself.\nWillingness to share and age are tightly correlated.\nHow can we make that sharing of information safer, data safe, and help them see themselves more clearly?\nIncomplete information about schools without complete information.\nMaking informed decisions about their future.\nIs this too complicated?\nStart taking steps - the request: go explore new technologies that might be useful that we can afford to trial.\nDon’t let perfect be the enemy of good.\nJust get started.\nConnect with Dave","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nWVRQgr5qAaqq4FBrc1SK-md_IsJQV0RWL4ZBC2WeeQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNTQ5LzE2ODM4/NjYyOTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}