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John Hancock Will Only Sell Interactive Life Insurance with Fitness Data Tracking
Suzanne Barlyn, Insurance Journal, 2018/09/20

I read a post from Ryerson this morning that began "It’s getting more and more difficult to make a case for privacy when so many people are willingly sharing so much of their personal information online." The answer had hardly begun to form in my mind when I encountered this item from the BBC which makes it clear as crystal. "John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones." I enjoy sharing my activities online. But when this sharing becomes involuntary or required, I begin to feel violated. It's the same thing with learning analytics. I might share my activity reports if I think it might help me, but if I am required to share these reports, the course begins to feel intrusive.

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Amid Low Adoption, DoD R&D Will Keep xAPI Alive And That’s Good News
Cristian T. Duque, Moodle News, 2018/09/20

I'm not worried about the future of xAPI, even if the adoption rate has been low thus far. The value proposition of xAPI becomes apparent once you begin using multiiple e-learning applications and want a single activity record. That's not so clear a value when you only use one LMS, but as the technology landscape becomes more distributed, the benefits of xAPI (or something like xAPI) will be come much more clear. For my own part, xAPI is something I want to integrate into gRSShopper (I just have to figure iut the API).

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