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368 - CLO Lunch Interivew; Video iPod, Email from a Car and Disposable Audio Books?
November 11, 2005
Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - Nov 11, 2005.
#368 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
51,612 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
1. Chief Learning Officer Lunch Interview - Video, Audio & Transcript.
2. Beach Wireless, Video iPod, email from a Car and Disposable Audio Books?
1. Chief Learning Office Lunch Interview - Video, Audio & Transcript: We are pleased to present a free one hour video, audio or text transcript interview with a group of top level Chief Learning Officers. At Learning 2005, I hosted CLO's and Learning Executives from Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Central Intelligence Agency and others, for an in-depth interview about learning from the CLO perspective. This is the first of dozens of hours of content from our recent event that we will be posting over the coming weeks. Check it out at:
http://www.learning2005.com/clotalk/
2) Beach Wireless, Video iPod, Email from a Car and Disposable Audio Book:
I am writing this editon of Learning TRENDS on the beach in the British Virgin Islands. First of all, it is pretty strange to have wireless on a remote beach on a remote island. But, I guess they figured that some guests, like me, want to stay in touch. So, at 5:30 am, with the sun rising, I am on-line to my office and typing this TRENDS to you. Here are a few other random new technology experiences that I have had in recent
days:
* Video iPod: I bought my new Video playing iPod the other night. Went home and bought 3 episodes of the TV show LOST for $1.99 apiece to watch on the plane down to Virgin Gorda. I was blown away by the quality and simplicity of the Video iPod. For 3 hours, I watched a high fidelity video image with great sound in a very simple form factor. We must find ways of making video learning content available for these types of devices. I want to take management and other courses in this mode and next week we will start to produce our first Video PodCasts from The MASIE Center.
* Email From a Car: A Learning TRENDS reader forwarded me an email that she just recieved from her car. She has a GM car with a new feature that links the diagnostics of the car with the satellite service and GPS. She gets a regular email from her engine with status reports on wear, tear, performance and suggested service. If something goes wrong, the car also sends an email with an alert. Watch for this trend to continue as wireless and device-enabled communication grow. Wonder if my refridgerator will send me a letter about the cheese that I didn't throw out?
* Disposable Audio Book: Another purchase that I made at the airport was a disposable mp3 player pre-loaded with an audio book. This 2-ounce device included batteries and earphones. It has 20 hours of the author reading his novel. While I can play the book over and over again, or pass on to others, the device is just good for this one book. I'd rather download it onto my player, but it is another element in content delivery innovation.
Personal Note: We had an extreme time at Learning 2005. I want to thank the 1,500 learning colleagues from around the world who came to Orlando at the end of October. We did some very different experiments with content, community and collaboration. Over the coming months, we will place the entire content of Learning 2005 in the public domain in the form of reports, podcasts, summaries and discussions. Watch Learning TRENDS for announcements. You can mark the dates for Learning 2006: November 5 to 8 in Orlando. I return from vacation next Wednesday and will start to send out articles based on our learnings at the event. The first one will focus on "Simple Learning."
Warm regards
Elliott Masie
#368 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
51,612 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
1. Chief Learning Officer Lunch Interview - Video, Audio & Transcript.
2. Beach Wireless, Video iPod, email from a Car and Disposable Audio Books?
1. Chief Learning Office Lunch Interview - Video, Audio & Transcript: We are pleased to present a free one hour video, audio or text transcript interview with a group of top level Chief Learning Officers. At Learning 2005, I hosted CLO's and Learning Executives from Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Central Intelligence Agency and others, for an in-depth interview about learning from the CLO perspective. This is the first of dozens of hours of content from our recent event that we will be posting over the coming weeks. Check it out at:
http://www.learning2005.com/clotalk/
2) Beach Wireless, Video iPod, Email from a Car and Disposable Audio Book:
I am writing this editon of Learning TRENDS on the beach in the British Virgin Islands. First of all, it is pretty strange to have wireless on a remote beach on a remote island. But, I guess they figured that some guests, like me, want to stay in touch. So, at 5:30 am, with the sun rising, I am on-line to my office and typing this TRENDS to you. Here are a few other random new technology experiences that I have had in recent
days:
* Video iPod: I bought my new Video playing iPod the other night. Went home and bought 3 episodes of the TV show LOST for $1.99 apiece to watch on the plane down to Virgin Gorda. I was blown away by the quality and simplicity of the Video iPod. For 3 hours, I watched a high fidelity video image with great sound in a very simple form factor. We must find ways of making video learning content available for these types of devices. I want to take management and other courses in this mode and next week we will start to produce our first Video PodCasts from The MASIE Center.
* Email From a Car: A Learning TRENDS reader forwarded me an email that she just recieved from her car. She has a GM car with a new feature that links the diagnostics of the car with the satellite service and GPS. She gets a regular email from her engine with status reports on wear, tear, performance and suggested service. If something goes wrong, the car also sends an email with an alert. Watch for this trend to continue as wireless and device-enabled communication grow. Wonder if my refridgerator will send me a letter about the cheese that I didn't throw out?
* Disposable Audio Book: Another purchase that I made at the airport was a disposable mp3 player pre-loaded with an audio book. This 2-ounce device included batteries and earphones. It has 20 hours of the author reading his novel. While I can play the book over and over again, or pass on to others, the device is just good for this one book. I'd rather download it onto my player, but it is another element in content delivery innovation.
Personal Note: We had an extreme time at Learning 2005. I want to thank the 1,500 learning colleagues from around the world who came to Orlando at the end of October. We did some very different experiments with content, community and collaboration. Over the coming months, we will place the entire content of Learning 2005 in the public domain in the form of reports, podcasts, summaries and discussions. Watch Learning TRENDS for announcements. You can mark the dates for Learning 2006: November 5 to 8 in Orlando. I return from vacation next Wednesday and will start to send out articles based on our learnings at the event. The first one will focus on "Simple Learning."
Warm regards
Elliott Masie
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