What if our "app"etites for real-time fitness were the same for real-time learning?

Creating a Nike-like System for Service Learning

Conor Cusack, M.P.A

Fitness is all the rage in the mobile app and wearable technology development space.

Gamification Elements and Mechanics (badges, achievements)

Social support capability to personalize one’s experience

NikeFuel equips users with the ability to "connect with other athletes, compete, compare and get rewarded for one's movement”

Community-building Capacity

There are a multitude of apps designed for nutrition, exercise, weight loss, oral health, and healthy living

With wearable technology exploding, consider the possibilities if and when wearable tech and mobile apps are as strategically designed for our education system in a capacity similar to what Nike is doing for the fitness world

Why are K12 and Higher Education Missing? Students are consumers.

Consider The Impact on Service Learning if Education Systems Applied the Same Elements that Nike Has with Fitness

Real-Time Information Sharing

Live and location-based GPS updates from students on what they are learning and applying on a field trip, or if a teacher approves, content during a classroom lecture.

Adopting a SoLoMo (Social/Local/Mobile) Approach to the Service Learning Ecosystem

Graphic Courtesy of Jim Kinney

Another Nike-Like Ecosystem

Social-Local-Mobile Approach

A Gamification Approach to Service Learning

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A sustainable, cloud-based, realtime, mobile ecosystem can emerge if key stakeholders capitalize on this Nike-Like model and replicate it. To sustain a game-changing model like Nike has with fitness, developers will need to provide dedicated apps to establishing good study habits, career exploration, internship options, community service, and mentoring and job opportunities. Apps that will enable students to check-in and share real-time information, in an effort to prepare them for what awaits in the data, ideas, and attention economy they will find themselves in after walking across the stage.

Conor Cusack