8K Miles' Response to RFP - NCPA

Consider how K-12 educators and students could use this solution to allow the sharing of
textbooks, reading and homework assignments, homework and project submissions, grades, and
collaboration between students, between teachers, and between schools. School districts are
considering providing tablets starting at the grade school level. This mobile solution can
immediately tie teachers and students together in a coordinated way that was not available even a
year ago.
This solution is a natural add-on for schools or enterprises that have already deployed 8KMiles
secure VPN solutions with the addition of collaboration capabilities.
State and local governments and educational institutions increasingly rely on Big Data to
improve effectiveness of learning by offering personalized learning. A recent paper from the
Brookings Institution, “Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web
Dashboards” concludes by noting that bringing teachers into the “big data” discussion is crucial
because they are the ones, along with parents and students, who will benefit from advances in
research and analysis. Projects that let teachers know which pedagogic techniques are most
effective or how students differ in their style of learning enable instructors to do a better job.
Tailoring education to the individual student is one of the greatest benefits of technology, and
Big Data will help teachers personalize learning.
8KMiles brings years of experience helping organizations worldwide take a systematic approach
to Big Data analytics to improve decision making. Figure 6 shows the framework 8KMiles has
employed in transitioning large amounts of structured and unstructured data into AWS storage
services, cost effectively processing this data using EMR, and populating the data into the AWS
database service for analytics.