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Oct162000
187 - Wearable Feedback Device - e-Learning for Wellness?; Feedback in General - Key Element of Self-Directed Learning; Intellectual Property Issues
October 16, 2000
1. Wearable Feedback Device - e-Learning for Wellness? Elliott and Cathy
Masie are wearing small feedback devices on their belts these days. Well,
we are testing a new product that is aimed at providing a unique form of
wellness feedback by integrating information, biometrics and the web in a
hybrid learning/performance model.
The devices are small, oval digital data collection devices that measure
steps that we have taken and store them with the time and intensity of each
movement throughout the day. Each evening, we place these devices in a
cradle and the information is uploaded to a website, instantly providing us
with the number of steps we have taken that day, a graph if activity/inactivity,
as well as progress towards our goal and references to similar people in our
age range.
After five days, I will tell you that it has made this fairly sedentary
person a lot more active. It helps that I am "competing" with my wife's
progress and also aiming to earn a free baseball cap from the host site.
The most interesting element is the way in which this service is combining
data gathered from the body and integrating it into instant feedback in a
learning context. One can imagine other devices coming that will measure
our food intake, our compliance with a medical procedure or even exposure of
certain toxins.
Check it out and think about the future: http://www.sportbrain.com
2. Feedback in General - Key Element of Self-Directed Learning: While on
the topic of feedback, this is an area that we must develop dramatically as
e-Learning evolves. When one moves the forward progress in learning
directly to the shoulders of the learner, it is critical that we provide
continuous, rich and varied forms of feedback. The learner wants to know
how they are doing, what kinds of mistakes they are making, how their skills
are evolving .... yet does not want to be in a continuous testing
environment. We will see increased use of simulation, community based
feedback, self-testing and coaching embedded into future e-Learning formats.
In fact, the "price value" of feedback models may be worth as much or more
than pure content as pricing evolves in our field.
3. TechLearn e-Lab: Time to Walk in the Shoes of e-Learners! In just four
weeks, there will a 220 PC e-Lab set up at TechLearn to provide attendees
with the chance to take an hour or more to quietly be "learners" for a
variety of learning courses and programs. Often, buyers, designers and
developers of e-Learning are so busy that they rarely have time to take
other people's classes and to walk in the shoes of learners. In addition to
providing access to these courses, we will ask the TechLearn participants to
take an interactive survey on the key functions and features of e-Learning
programs that help or hinder their learning efforts. (Reminder: TechLearn
2000 to be held in Orlando, Florida on November 12 to 15th Full details
and on-line registration at http://www.techlearn.com
4. Intellectual Property Issues: Keeping Up? Over this past weekend, I
had the chance to address a group of 200 Intellectual Property lawyers at a
Bar Association Conference. They are struggling with the rapidly changing
definitions of intellectual property and how the law will apply to these
areas. I added to their struggle when I asked them to consider how the law
will relate to these new issues of intellectual property ownership:
* Who owns the content of a "community", where content is created dynamically by the members
* When content is separated from logic, what are the rights to re-sequence.
For example, when a course is purchased with content in a database and logic
in a separate file, does the buyer have the right to re-sequence?
* As Instant Messenger increases in use, what are organization's obligations
to capture a log of IM messages?
* What agreements should an employer ask an employee to sign that will give
them the right to use their intellectual property or even their image (in a
training video tape) after the employee moves to a new company?
* What will "fair usage" become as digital content is vulnerable to "Napsterization"?
We are adding a special section at TechLearn 2000 that will dialogue these
issues. If you have other items to add, please send me an email at
emasie@masie.com
5. Additional Case Studies Added to TechLearn 2000: Here are even more
case studies that we have added for TechLearn 2000 + The World e-Learning
CONGRESS (Details at and register online at http://www.techlearn.com)
Building an e-Learning Infrastructure
Lori Bober, Experian
Implementing a Learning Management System in a Large Enterprise
Cheryl Puterbaugh, Proctor & Gamble
Choosing a Synchronous Online Learning Tool
Harrison Withers, Domino's Pizza
Developing Coaching Skills Online & Off
Beverly Ward, Tad Wicker, PricewaterhouseCoopers
e-Learning and HR: Partnering for Success
Judy Albers, Bank One
Implementing a Virtual University
Rebecca Hacker, Pershing
Leaders Pave the Way For a New Way to Learn
Jay Morris, Norma Resneder, Tenet HealthSystem
Distance Learning - As You've Always Imagined It!
Susan Olenick, Chubb Computer Services
Reusing Learning Objects
Ernie Ong, University of Singapore
Vision to Action: Bringing the Possibility of a LMS to Life at PNC Bank
Paul Dickerson, Lee McCaffrey, PNC Bank
e-Learning at Shell
Regy Loknes, Shell Exploration & Production B.V.
Regulatory-based e-Learning in the Workplace
David Pasternak, Beverly Larson, PG&E National Energy Group
Masie are wearing small feedback devices on their belts these days. Well,
we are testing a new product that is aimed at providing a unique form of
wellness feedback by integrating information, biometrics and the web in a
hybrid learning/performance model.
The devices are small, oval digital data collection devices that measure
steps that we have taken and store them with the time and intensity of each
movement throughout the day. Each evening, we place these devices in a
cradle and the information is uploaded to a website, instantly providing us
with the number of steps we have taken that day, a graph if activity/inactivity,
as well as progress towards our goal and references to similar people in our
age range.
After five days, I will tell you that it has made this fairly sedentary
person a lot more active. It helps that I am "competing" with my wife's
progress and also aiming to earn a free baseball cap from the host site.
The most interesting element is the way in which this service is combining
data gathered from the body and integrating it into instant feedback in a
learning context. One can imagine other devices coming that will measure
our food intake, our compliance with a medical procedure or even exposure of
certain toxins.
Check it out and think about the future: http://www.sportbrain.com
2. Feedback in General - Key Element of Self-Directed Learning: While on
the topic of feedback, this is an area that we must develop dramatically as
e-Learning evolves. When one moves the forward progress in learning
directly to the shoulders of the learner, it is critical that we provide
continuous, rich and varied forms of feedback. The learner wants to know
how they are doing, what kinds of mistakes they are making, how their skills
are evolving .... yet does not want to be in a continuous testing
environment. We will see increased use of simulation, community based
feedback, self-testing and coaching embedded into future e-Learning formats.
In fact, the "price value" of feedback models may be worth as much or more
than pure content as pricing evolves in our field.
3. TechLearn e-Lab: Time to Walk in the Shoes of e-Learners! In just four
weeks, there will a 220 PC e-Lab set up at TechLearn to provide attendees
with the chance to take an hour or more to quietly be "learners" for a
variety of learning courses and programs. Often, buyers, designers and
developers of e-Learning are so busy that they rarely have time to take
other people's classes and to walk in the shoes of learners. In addition to
providing access to these courses, we will ask the TechLearn participants to
take an interactive survey on the key functions and features of e-Learning
programs that help or hinder their learning efforts. (Reminder: TechLearn
2000 to be held in Orlando, Florida on November 12 to 15th Full details
and on-line registration at http://www.techlearn.com
4. Intellectual Property Issues: Keeping Up? Over this past weekend, I
had the chance to address a group of 200 Intellectual Property lawyers at a
Bar Association Conference. They are struggling with the rapidly changing
definitions of intellectual property and how the law will apply to these
areas. I added to their struggle when I asked them to consider how the law
will relate to these new issues of intellectual property ownership:
* Who owns the content of a "community", where content is created dynamically by the members
* When content is separated from logic, what are the rights to re-sequence.
For example, when a course is purchased with content in a database and logic
in a separate file, does the buyer have the right to re-sequence?
* As Instant Messenger increases in use, what are organization's obligations
to capture a log of IM messages?
* What agreements should an employer ask an employee to sign that will give
them the right to use their intellectual property or even their image (in a
training video tape) after the employee moves to a new company?
* What will "fair usage" become as digital content is vulnerable to "Napsterization"?
We are adding a special section at TechLearn 2000 that will dialogue these
issues. If you have other items to add, please send me an email at
emasie@masie.com
5. Additional Case Studies Added to TechLearn 2000: Here are even more
case studies that we have added for TechLearn 2000 + The World e-Learning
CONGRESS (Details at and register online at http://www.techlearn.com)
Building an e-Learning Infrastructure
Lori Bober, Experian
Implementing a Learning Management System in a Large Enterprise
Cheryl Puterbaugh, Proctor & Gamble
Choosing a Synchronous Online Learning Tool
Harrison Withers, Domino's Pizza
Developing Coaching Skills Online & Off
Beverly Ward, Tad Wicker, PricewaterhouseCoopers
e-Learning and HR: Partnering for Success
Judy Albers, Bank One
Implementing a Virtual University
Rebecca Hacker, Pershing
Leaders Pave the Way For a New Way to Learn
Jay Morris, Norma Resneder, Tenet HealthSystem
Distance Learning - As You've Always Imagined It!
Susan Olenick, Chubb Computer Services
Reusing Learning Objects
Ernie Ong, University of Singapore
Vision to Action: Bringing the Possibility of a LMS to Life at PNC Bank
Paul Dickerson, Lee McCaffrey, PNC Bank
e-Learning at Shell
Regy Loknes, Shell Exploration & Production B.V.
Regulatory-based e-Learning in the Workplace
David Pasternak, Beverly Larson, PG&E National Energy Group
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