Andreas Bischoff of the University of Duisburg-Essen has made an interesting post (in German) on smartwatches and their implications for higher education. If you can read German or trust google to translate you can find it here:
http://blogs.uni-due.de/zim/2015/04/21/smartwatches-an-der-hochschule-das-wissen-der-welt-am-handgelenk-oder-uni-schummeln-4-0/
Whilst Andreas doesn't directly define what a smartwatch is he gives a nice overview of the distinctive features of a smartwatch: notifications, sensors, speech input, display, apps and battery life. Speech input doesn't apply to pebble watches so far but it is common to most other models.
Andreas also wonders about the societal issues of smartwatches and for universities, most importantly, whether smartwatches will mean the dawn of a new age of cheating in exams. The possibilities provided by an app like Attopedia on an Android smartwatch are given as an example.
Lastly, and most interesting for me, Andreas ponders whether smartwatches might mean a renaissance in microlearning.
Take a look, I am sure you will find the post very interesting!
http://blogs.uni-due.de/zim/2015/04/21/smartwatches-an-der-hochschule-das-wissen-der-welt-am-handgelenk-oder-uni-schummeln-4-0/
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