Assignment: Skydive Chicago: Efficiency and Feedback
Digital Data
Skydive Chicago is one of the United States' premier skydiving resorts, serving skydivers ranging in skills from first- time jumpers to internationally competitive freefly teams.
Each student in Skydive Chicago's training program makes a series of progressive training jumps under the direct supervision of a United State Parachute Association-rated jumpmaster. The training program gears each jump in the series toward teaching one or two new skills. Jumpmasters video their students' jumps. Students use the feedback these videos provide to identify mistakes. They often copy their videos onto a personal tape for future reference.
Jumpmasters may also copy well-executed student skydivers to the facility's tape library. All students are given access to the dropzone's training room and are encouraged to watch the video clips in preparation for their next training jump. This step saves jumpmasters, who are paid per jump, considerable time. Jumpmastes also use these videos to evaluate their training method's effectiveness.
a. How can this information system benefit the skydiving students?
b. How can this information system benefit Skydive Chicago?
c. Draw an information systems model. Fill in your diagram with the information about people, hardware, software, and other resources from this exercise.