15 uses of beacons in education
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Beacons, a.k.a. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Bluetooth Smart: What do they look like?
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Beacons make it possible to deliver educational content to specific areas or learning zones within a classroom, enabling a new level of personalized education.
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Combine beacons with apps for wayfinding and campus tours. Printed maps are becoming a thing of the past.
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With beacons, students can automatically check in at events.
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Beacons make it possible to provide electronic coupons for discounts on food and drink at specific locations, such as dining areas.
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In the bookstore, use beacons to: • Trigger notifications for
discounts on merchandise or special events
• Notify in-range students of the current wait time for the book buy-back line.
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With beacons, schools can eliminate badge readers for granting building access to students.
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Beacons can be used to set up scavenger hunts for students, with badges or prizes for completion.
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Beacons can provide information on key landmarks, trees in an arboretum, or museum artwork to create augmented spaces or extended classrooms, when students use their smartphones closeby.
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9Beacons can be used to deliver electronic agendas and meeting materials to students in the classroom.
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With their accurate position capabilities, beacons can take the burden out of tracking class attendance.
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Beacons can be used to restrict device access at locations. When a teacher with a beacon enters the classroom, all student devices with Mobile Device Management (MDM) are restricted to textbook app access only.
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Beacons provide directions and rotating special content to students within a museum or library, replacing signs and printed programs.
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Mass-produced paper programs are no longer necessary at sporting events, where beacons enable virtual athletic programs that describe the players and activity.
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Beacons notify campus administrators of the accurate locations of students during campus emergencies, setting a new standard in campus safety.
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Schools can use the location-sensing ability of beacons to better understand the flow of students and staff throughout the campus. This can help optimize scheduling and campus design, and remove bottlenecks.
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Special thanks to: Brian Rellinger and Bob Nilsson, with contributions from David Soliday, Joe Peterson, and Cheryl Pearl.