machine-to-machine communications

iBeacons & Education: Bringing Beacons to the Classroom [Jody Baty]; item is relevant to corp world, K-12, higher ed

On 08/13/2014, in Apple, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, ideas, innovation, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

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).

Also see:

Storify.com/Jason_Smith/
Beekn.net
Getting Started with iBeacon — from apple.com
iBeacon for developers — from apple.com
The blog out at roamable.ca
Creating an iBeacon proximity feature for mLearning — from roamable.ca
The LabWerk Museum platform, mApp

Best of Beacons – August 1 Video Edition [Jason Smith]

On 08/05/2014, in Apple, blended learning, Bring your own device (BYOD), business, digital learning, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, face-to-face, hybrid learning, interactivity, machine-to-machine communications, marketing/social marketing, by Daniel Christian

Reflections on “C-Suite TV debuts, offers advice for the boardroom” [Dreier]

On 07/21/2014, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, adult learning, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, communities of practice, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, heutagogy, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), IBM, ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, learner profiles, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning hubs & pods & microschooling, learning spaces, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, more voice more choice more control, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online tutoring, participation, personalized/customized learning, platforms, second screen apps, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, streams of content, student-related, technologies for your home, telecommunications, television, training / L&D, trends, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

C-Suite TV debuts, offers advice for the boardroom — from streamingmedia.com by Troy Dreier
Business leaders now have an on-demand video network to call their own, thanks to one Bloomberg host’s online venture.

Excerpt:

Bringing some business acumen to the world of online video, C-Suite TV is launching today. Created by Bloomberg TV host and author Jeffrey Hayzlett, the on-demand video network offers interviews with and shows about business execs. It promises inside information on business trends and the discussions taking place in the biggest boardrooms.

The Future of TV is here for the C-Suite — from hayzlett.com by Jeffrey Hayzlett

Excerpt:

Rather than wait for networks or try and gain traction through the thousands of cat videos, we went out and built our own network.

See also:

Mind your own business
From the About page:
C-Suite TV is a web-based digital on-demand business channel featuring interviews and shows with business executives, thought leaders, authors and celebrities providing news and information for business leaders. C-Suite TV is your go-to resource to find out the inside track on trends and discussions taking place in businesses today. This online channel will be home to such shows as C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett, MYOB – Mind Your Own Business and Bestseller TV with more shows to come.

From DSC:
The above items took me back to the concept of Learning from the Living [Class] Room.

Many of the following bullet points are already happening — but what I’m trying to influence/suggest is to bring all of them together in a powerful, global, 24 x 7 x 365, learning ecosystem:

When our “TVs” become more interactive…
When our mobile devices act as second screens and when second screen-based apps are numerous…
When discussion boards, forums, social media, assignments, assessments, and videoconferencing capabilities are embedded into our Smart/Connected TVs and are also available via our mobile devices…
When education is available 24 x 7 x 365…
When even the C-Suite taps into such platforms…
When education and entertainment are co-mingled…
When team-based educational content creation and delivery are mainstream…
When self-selecting Communities of Practice thrive online…
When Learning Hubs combine the best of both worlds (online and face-to-face)…
When Artificial Intelligence, powerful cognitive computing capabilities (i.e., IBM’s Watson), and robust reporting mechanisms are integrated into the backends…
When lifelong learners have their own cloud-based profiles…
When learners can use their “TVs” to tap into interactive, multimedia-based streams of content of their choice…
When recommendation engines are offered not just at Netflix but also at educationally-oriented sites…
When online tutoring and intelligent tutoring really take off…

…then I’d say we’ll have a powerful, engaging, responsive, global education platform.

iBeacon Comparison [fosbury.co]

On 07/21/2014, in internet, machine-to-machine communications, by Daniel Christian

iBeacon Comparison — from fosbury.co

Also see:

Ideas for libraries & other learning spaces [Christian]

On 06/29/2014, in Apple, Augmented Reality (AR), Daniel S. Christian, education technology, ideas, library / librarians, machine-to-machine communications, by Daniel Christian

Some annnouncements & items from Apple this week

On 06/05/2014, in Apple, computer science, internet, machine-to-machine communications, mobile learning, mobile technologies, platforms, programming, user experience (UX), user interface design, by Daniel Christian

“The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) gives developers an in-depth look at the latest in iOS and OS X. You can learn from and be inspired by more than 100 sessions led by Apple engineers, get help from Apple experts through an extensive set of hands-on labs, and connect with fellow developers from around the world, giving you the opportunity to create your best apps ever. WWDC 2014 takes place June 2 – 6, 2014 at Moscone West in San Francisco, California.”

The 22 most important things Apple announced at WWDC 2014
From QuickType to Continuity, this is Apple’s future

Apple announces iOS 8 at WWDC 2014 — from cnet.com by Nick Statt and Shara Tibken
Apple’s next iteration of its mobile operating system is all about upgrading what’s under the hood.

iOS 8: Way more open to your world — from networkworld.com by John Cox

Swift, Apple’s New Programming Language, Has Been In Development For Nearly Four Years — from techcrunch.com by Kyle Russell

9 new iOS features from Apple’s WWDC that Android already had — from networkworld.com by Steven Max Patterson

8 huge new features in iOS 8 that Apple didn’t talk about today — from theverge.com by Dan Seifert
From Wi-Fi calling to a new keyboard for the blind, sometimes the best things are hidden

Metal, meet Apple TV: Why iOS 8 seems destined for console gaming — from cnet.com byScott Stein
Console-quality games on iOS could be closer than ever, which means a TV-connected device makes even more sense.

Apple’s iOS 8 uses iBeacon tech to bring location-aware app access to lock screen — from appleinsider.com
While not a shiny new feature like HealthKit, Apple baked what appears to be new iBeacon functionality into iOS 8, making the process of proximity-aware app and content pushes passive and more discovery oriented.

Full Transcript of Apple’s WWDC 2014 Keynote: OS X 10.10, iOS 8, and More — macrumors.com

“The future of iBeacon: Trends for the year ahead” plus 2 other iBeacon-related items

On 05/21/2014, in Apple, machine-to-machine communications, marketing/social marketing, by Daniel Christian

The Future of iBeacon: Trends for the Year Ahead — from beekn.net guest post by Stefan Wolpers

Excerpt:

Beacons will become a hardware commodity within the next 6 to 12 months:

Best of Beacons – Weekly Wrap Up for May 9 — from storify.com/jason_smith by Jason Smith, OHO Interactive
Great to see some new launches and some very interesting patent news from Apple. The Cisco Report on In Store experiences came out earlier but the data is very good.

Also see:

Also see:

Where the Internet of Things could take society by 2025 — from centerdigitaled.com by Tanya Roscorla

Excerpt:

The Pew Research Center Internet Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center released the report on Wednesday, May 14, as part of an ongoing future of the Internet series inspired by the Web’s 25th anniversary. Eighty-three percent of these experts, which included education leaders, agreed that the Internet of Things would have “widespread and beneficial effects on the everyday lives of the public by 2025.” The remaining 17 percent said it would not, and both camps elaborated on their answers in paragraph form.

Their explanations fall under six major points:

The Internet of Things and wearable computing will take major steps forward in the next 11 years.
Increased data from connected things will cause privacy concerns to come to the forefront and encourage the growth of profiling and targeting people, which will greatly inflame conflicts in various arenas.
Despite advancement in information interfaces, most people won’t be connecting their brains to the network.
Complicated, unintended consequences will arise.
A digital divide could deepen and disenfranchise people who don’t choose to connect to the network.
Relationships will change depending on people’s response to the Internet of Things.

From DSC:
As with most technologies, there will be positives and negatives about the Internet of Things. To me, the technologies are tools — neutral, not value-laden — and it’s how we use them that adds moral, political, legal, ethical, or social perspectives/elements to them. With that said, I’m quite sure that the IoT will have unintended consequences (#4 above). Also, item #5 — “A digital divide could deepen and disenfranchise people who don’t choose to connect to the network” — is especially troublesome to me, along with the topic of privacy concerns as mentioned in #2.

The emerging beacon ecosphere – as of May 2014 [Smith]

On 05/06/2014, in Apple, machine-to-machine communications, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Last spring, I saw the following graphic from Sparks & Honey’s presentation entitled, “8 Exponential Trends That Will Shape Humanity“:

If today’s changes are truly exponential — and I agree with Sparks & Honey that they are, especially as they relate to technological changes — how soon will it be before each of us is interacting with a robot?

This is not an idle idea or question, nor is it a joke. It will be here sooner than most of us think! The science fiction of the past is here (at least in part). Some recent items I’ve run across come to my mind, such as:

Hitachi’s EMIEW Robot Learns to Navigate Around the Office — from spectrum.ieee.org by Jason Falconer

Photo: Hitachi

Excerpt:

Now EMIEW 2 still relies on maps of its surroundings, but its navigation software has a new feature: It uses designated zones that make the robot change its speed and direction.

iRpobot Ava 500

Excerpt:

Ava 500 enables this new dimension in telepresence with:

autonomous navigation and mobility – remote users simply specify a destination and the robot automatically navigates to the desired location without any human intervention.
standards-based videoconferencing – built-in Cisco Telepresence® solutions deliver enterprise-class security and reliability.
an easy-to-use client application – an iPad mini™ tablet enables remote users to schedule and control the robot.
scheduling and management -seamlessly handled through an iRobot managed cloud service.

Also see:

Chinese city aims to have 80% of production done by Robots by 2020 — from robohub.org
Robohub Digest March 2014 — — from robohub.org
With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time — from the New York Times by Jesse McKinley

A helpful video in learning more about iBeacon [from 3months.com]; why educators should care about this technology

On 04/24/2014, in Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, interactivity, machine-to-machine communications, programming, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, by Daniel Christian

Everything you need to know about iBeacon— from 3months.com

From DSC:
I’m posting this because:

The video on that page is helpful in learning more about iBeacon
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It’s important for those involved with education to be in the loop on beacon-related technologies — as such devices will help us bridge the physical world with the digital world.

Also see:

Developing iOS 7 Applications with iBeacons Tutorial — by Ray Wenderlich

Hypermedia storytelling — from kirkbowe.com
Museum exhibitions as dynamic storytelling experiences using the latest technology

Excerpt:

The secret of many great storytellers lies in their ability to adapt delivery to their audiences, even as they speak. Storytelling is at its best when it is not a one-way monologue but rather an experience which is shaped by the teller and the listener together. Underpinning this is the notion of real-time mutual discovery.

Great museum exhibitions tell great stories. But for practical reasons they lack a dynamic edge, unable to see the faces and hear the thoughts of the people walking around them. This is because many exhibitions are, to some extent, static place-holders for the mind and soul of the curator or curation team.

One of my passions is researching into how to use technology to bring a vibrant storytelling relationship to the fore. Recently, advances in certain areas of mobile technology have begun to show me that the potential is now there for the cultural heritage sector to take advantage of it.

…

But how about the cultural sector? Many museums have already experimented with mobile interaction through the use of printed codes, such as QR codes, which visitors must scan with their devices. Bluetooth Smart removes that cumbersome step: visitors need only be with proximity of a beacon in order for your app to provide them with the contextual information you wish to deliver. The technology has many different potential applications:

– Place a beacon in each room of the exhibition. Your app then triggers a screen of scene-setting background information for the room as the visitor enters. No need to have congestion points around wall-mounted text at the door.

– Place a beacon under selected objects or cases. As visitors walk up to the object, your app detects the beacon and provides commentary, video, or a three-dimensional representation of the object. No need for visitors to type in an object number to a traditional electronic guide.

From DSC:
This has major implications — and applications — for teaching and learning spaces! For blended/hybrid learning experiments. Such technologies can bridge the physical and virtual/digital worlds!

Another interesting application, providing access to published content from a specific location only:

Imaginative use of iBeacon gives bar patrons free access to Newsstand magazines

There will be many, many more of these applications of the iBeacon technology!

On 04/17/2014, in 21st century, Apple, art, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, education technology, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, platforms, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

New iBeacon App Stations of the Cross at St. Thomas — from mrspepe.com by Courtney Pepe

Excerpt:

This app was developed by a fellow ADE Jay Anderson. It uses iBeacon technology to sense how close you are to different pieces of art related to the 14 Stations of the Cross in a church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The app has three different settings: meditation for children, meditation for adults, and the comments of the artists. Great use of the iBeacon technology.

Addendum on 4/19:

iBeacon at the National Slate Museum is a world-first mobile link for tourists — from walesonline.co.uk by Martin Shipton

The National Slate Museum in Llanberis which is operating an iBeacon smartphone information point.

Apple iBeacon: signs of new direction [Barker]

On 04/04/2014, in 21st century, Apple, Australia, education technology, human-computer interaction (HCI), K-12 related, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, Near Field Communication (NFC), smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

Apple iBeacon: signs of new direction — from theage.com.au by Garry Barker]

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

For local initiatives, I consulted two Australian pioneers of iBeacon technology and related educational app development: Geoff Elwood, chief executive and founder of Melbourne-based Specialist Apps (specialistapps.com); and Paul Hamilton, an Apple distinguished educator, and primary school teacher at Matthew Flinders Anglican College at Buderim, Queensland.

Both are highly respected developers of educational technology and iBeacon is the latest of their passions.

Hamilton says he was the first person in the world to use iBeacon technology in a school. At Matthew Flinders he has installed three iBeacons for interactive technology, library and art learning zones. His website, appsbypaulhamilton.com, includes videos showing them at work.

Elwood’s largest installation so far is at Bryanston, an elite coeducational school based in a country mansion on a 160-hectare estate beside the River Stour in Dorset.

Bryanston employs a student management application that uses an online eLockers information system, distributed by the iBeacon network. ”With iBeacons, a teacher can use an eLocker application to quickly form a proximity group, press a button on the iPad and transmit a notification to students within the proximity to open an eLocker that is blinking on their screens. The app is both transmitter and receiver, but we have taken the technology beyond just transmitting and receiving to establishing direct relationships between teachers and students, individually or in groups,” Elwood says.

Tapping M2M: The Internet of Things [zdnet.com]

On 03/26/2014, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, analytics, business, change, corporate / business world, data related items, emerging technologies, human-computer interaction (HCI), internet, machine-to-machine communications, mobile technologies, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Tapping M2M: The Internet of Things — from zdnet.com

Excerpt:

The rise of objects that connect themselves to the internet — from cars to heart monitors to stoplights — is unleashing a wave of new possibilities for data gathering, predictive analytics, and IT automation. We discuss how to tap these nascent solutions.

Learning Ecosystems

iBeacons & Education: Bringing Beacons to the Classroom [Jody Baty]; item is relevant to corp world, K-12, higher ed

Best of Beacons – August 1 Video Edition [Jason Smith]

iBeacon Comparison [fosbury.co]

Ideas for libraries & other learning spaces [Christian]

Some annnouncements & items from Apple this week

“The future of iBeacon: Trends for the year ahead” plus 2 other iBeacon-related items

The Internet of Things will thrive by 2025 [Pew Research; Anderson & Rainie]

The emerging beacon ecosphere – as of May 2014 [Smith]

A helpful video in learning more about iBeacon [from 3months.com]; why educators should care about this technology

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