Dive Summary:
- A California company has introduced an iPad app that uses the tablet's camera to watch a student and pauses the app if the person turns away from the screen.
- The pause lasts three to five seconds; the material will only resume when the user looks directly at the screen.
- The app's maker, Mindflash Technologies, hopes to eventually be able to monitor how students are reacting to the material, aggregating data about when they laugh, look confused or appear engaged.
From the article:
... “If that guy checked out because he had had a heavy night the night before…the course really can’t necessarily be blamed,” Wells said. “But if you put the same course in front of 300 people and everybody checks out at that same point in time — it’s not that he had a hangover, it’s that the training content really is the problem.” ...