By Jon Aleckson
CEO, Web Courseworks
I will be presenting with Ron Moen, CIO of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), at ASAE Tech 2016 under the eye-catching session title “‘My Robot Threw Up!’ And Other Surprises During the Internet of Things.” As an LMS provider for the association community and an integrator with Personify AMS, I’m excited to be leading a session in which innovators at associations will have the chance to share what they’ve learned from their own eLearning and education innovations. The presentation will seek to relate the Internet of Things and other recent trends in technology to association-specific topics like certification, live events, and member engagement.
One case study—and the source of the catchy title—is a CHEST-Web Courseworks pilot in which we leveraged the Experience API (xAPI), a new eLearning interoperability standard, to connect our CourseStage learning management system to high-fidelity simulators. High-fidelity simulators are high-tech mannequins used for medical training that can talk, bleed, and, of course, vomit. We ran this pilot during a live, four-day course at CHEST’s Innovation, Simulation and Training Center. The Difficult Airway Management course is used to help physicians improve their patient care in intubation and other airway management techniques. During the course, CHEST instructors use CourseStage to evaluate learner performance via a checklist on an iPad. The checklist generates a detailed report accessible from the practicing physician’s transcript.
High-fidelity simulators have been around for a long time, and they are not traditionally high on Internet connectivity or interoperability. CHEST’s mannequins collect precise quantitative data specific to the simulations being run, such as the time of drug administration and the time of intubation. Traditionally, this data has been confined to a file stored locally on the desktop computers used to manage the mannequins during the course. Because the mannequin’s internal reports never made it to the learning management system, the data was not being retained by CHEST’s faculty and instructional designers for evaluation. So we built a translator to take the mannequin’s data and send it, via xAPI, to a learning record store (LRS) connected to CourseStage. CHEST can now access records of simulations from a learner’s profile and transcript and compare them to performance on the faculty checklist and knowledge assessments associated with the online course. These rich sources of data can be used to track student’s improvement before and after the course (pre-post comparison). Using xAPI during their live courses helps CHEST set performance benchmarks and better track and demonstrate physician-learner improvement.
The CHEST xAPI case study is a perfect example of how the Internet of Things helps improve and further develop education initiatives at associations: via xAPI, we’ve been able to make the mannequin, a “thing,” use the Internet to transfer learner data to a LRS, enabling richer analytics and smarter instructional design.
This is just one of the innovations that will be discussed during our ASAE Tech presentation. Another interesting example of innovative IoT technology that we will highlight is associations’ use of barcodes to identify members/attendees at conferences. Attendees’ badges can be used to log them into various association platforms, allowing the conference to serve as an introduction to other benefits provided by the association. As ASAE Tech attendees will learn, the key takeaway from this story is how easy it is to create integrated systems like these using modern IoT technology.
“My Robot Threw Up” will also cover the topic of interoperability, or the connecting of separate technology platforms, which enables CTOs to reach the goals of their innovation strategies. One of our own examples of interoperability is the integration work we have done as a partner of Personify. We have worked together on several projects to create successful interoperability between CourseStage and Personify furthering the growth of our partnership.
Lastly, the session will cover the topic of big data, and the visualization of big data. One game-changer here has been the business intelligence application Tableau, which gives associations more ways to understand how to engage constituents and grow membership.
“My Robot Threw Up! And Other Surprises During the Internet of Things”
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 10:15AM – 11:15AM
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