The PSA take is that learning transcends silos and categories, and thus new learning tech is as applicable and as important in various “daily life” situations, as it is for what we conventionally think of as learning, such as “education”.
There’s a “cloud tools, smart devices and apps” revolution starting up in healthcare too, and involving ever more useful tools that support adaptive learning, and DIY learning. Healthcare involves a great deal of data accumulation and analysis…what we train doctors to do at medical school for years…. and what all those amazing machines in hospitals and clinics tell us about our bodies in various data sets.
With ever greater computer power, and mobile sensing devices that fit on our bodies, and/or work easily with mobile devices, and the ability to massage data via cloud connectivity…and to adapt DLE to engage people in behavior appropriate to what “the data says”… as well as through immersion in social support or Social Learning Constructs… the ability of the individual to DIY healthcare is tremendously enhanced.
Recent CES featured one such home care device for sleep problems by a company that offers a number of data collection, analysis, and adaptive learning devices, for an example. “Smart Products and Apps”.
There’s many others, including a whole slew of “sensors” that can be connected to mobile devices and data accumulated and processed in the cloud…and interaction with behavioral choices influenced/ guided. Fitbit for example, but there’s also a resurgence of what used to be called “biofeedback” devices, that are much more powerful, easy to use, “smarter”, and affordable…and now connect with cloud data sets and analysis.