A story about John & his Apple Watch elearning app

• 3 min read

As head designer at Docebo, my daily job is to study, design and develop Docebo’s LMS graphic interfaces and user experience to ensure engagement, product ease of use and innovation. Today I want to tell you a story that begins with a very simple idea: bringing training assets, information and experience to people in order to engage and support the learning activity without having them lose their time ‘searching’ through the assets to find what they need. In other words: the training comes to you and not you that has to search for it!

How? Wearable devices, like next-gen cameras, glasses or watches are the new tools that are contributing to our technology growth by offering new and interesting opportunities for advanced adopters of LMSs and pushing the evolution of learning globally.

Let’s focus, for example on the brand new Apple Watch. Even if It has a smaller screen, compared with an iPhone, there are many ways to deliver small pieces of information (bite-sized or chunks of learning) that can be strictly connected to a learning activity. How? From a learning standpoint, it’s a good start to focus on any kind of notification that should gain my attention quickly, and in a cool way, that may include interactions between students and teachers, activities list/s and productivity tasks, step-by-step procedures or quick “binary” quizzes.

Imagine an Apple Watch elearning app

So, here begins the story I want to tell you, of how an Apple Watch could be involved in a blended learning session (a kind of training that mixes both Classroom and eLearning activity).

Let’s meet John Doe. In this hypothetical story he’s a sales person and today he’s travelling to San Francisco to attend his assigned Sales and Marketing Principles intermediate classroom session, which is handled with Docebo’s ILT-Classroom module to better organise the course logistics and deliver online training assessment. He wears his brand-new Apple Watch and he has just installed the Docebo Apple Watch elearning app. Using the app he can check his upcoming learning activities, and find today’s session (amongst others) …

…and navigate to the course location. During his walk to the location he receives a notification about a last minute change: the session has been postponed and will start at 3:30pm.
On arriving at the course’s location, the watch shows quick, clear indoor directions to the classroom and John, as soon as he steps in the classroom, is also able to immediately register his presence.
The course has started and the Sales and Marketing Principles intermediate session looks very interesting. At the end of the course, John is very satisfied and he doesn’t have any doubt about how to answer the satisfaction survey that has just appeared on his watch. But the best satisfaction is to know that, after having completed the final test through the Docebo LMS, he passed the course with a solid 86/100 score! Well done John!
This was John’s story and it’s a clear example of how all the support assets related to a blended learning activity can be pushed to the user: you don’t need to register your presence, it’s the app that asks you to do it. You don’t need to check the results, as the app will tell you how you performed.

Want to try John’s experience on a “real” Apple Watch elearning app, and experience the wow-factor too?

Use this interactive proof of concept! Just click/scroll each screen to experience John’s journey to his blended training activity!

This is just a proof of concept, not a Docebo product.