iBeaconsAndEducation-8-10-14

 

From DSC:
The title of this posting made me think it was for K-12 or Higher Ed, but the target audience is more likely corporate training/universities. Still, the concepts/ideas are valid in all of these spaces.

 

Excerpts of iBeacon and Education: Bringing Beacons to the Classroom

Adding iBeacons to the mLearning Mix
iBeacons have the potential to provide contextualized learning based on a user’s proximity. To demonstrate how this might work, we developed a simple concept app called Beacon Learn.  Its purpose is to initiate a dialogue with clients as to how they might consider using iBeacons to support Training and Learning in their organization.

The Beacon Learn app demonstrates four Use Cases:

  • Context Sensitive Training – delivery of the right content, to the right user, at the right time.

  • Job Aids – step by step guides presented to the user with compliance tracked in a Learning Record Store using the xAPI.

  • Expert Locator – using their iPhones as a iBeacon, experts can make others aware of their presence and availability for mentoring.

  • Emergency – although not really a training function, the ability for users to alert others of an emergency on the shop floor is a very useful feature that can be provided using a combination of iBeacons, M7 motion coprocessor and indoor mapping (iOS 8).

 

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