876 - Learning Entrepreneur Dies in Amtrak Crash, Video Segments, Meet at ATD
May 14, 2015 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - May 14, 2015.
#876 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
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1. Learning Entrepreneur Killed in Amtrak Crash.
2. Video Segments vs. Video Programs.
3. Going to ATD in Florida? Let’s MeetUp!
1. Learning Entrepreneur Killed in Amtrak Crash: Sadly, one of the Learning Entrepreneurs in our field was killed in the Amtrak Crash outside of Philadelphia on Tuesday night. Rachel Jacobs, the recently-hired chief executive officer of online training startup ApprenNet LLC, died on the train at the age of 39.
Jacobs, a Columbia Business School graduate, joined Philadelphia-based ApprenNet in March. The company produces Web-based educational video tools and markets them to customers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kaplan Inc.’s Open College at Kaplan University, and Newark Public Schools in New Jersey.
A resident of New York, Jacobs commuted twice a week to Philadelphia and planned to move to the city after completing a round of financing for the company and expanding its seven-person staff. ApprenNet was founded in 2011. Jacobs, a native of a Detroit suburb, helped found Detroit Nation in 2009. The organization brings expatriate residents of the city together with current residents for mentorship and support.
Her path to ApprenNet included four years at McGraw-Hill Cos. From 2007 to 2009, she was a director of strategy and planning. From 2009 to 2011, she was a director of education services at McGraw-Hill education.
Jacobs’s survivors include a husband and two-year-old son.
Here is an article about Rachel Jacobs: http://tinyurl.com/pe269ou
2. Video Segments vs. Video Programs: Learners and Producers are wanting to access, deploy, view or forward smaller segments of larger videos. For example, a company might have a 20 minute video program detailing all of the steps in setting up a key piece of equipment. Yet, learners might want to “mark” a much smaller segment - perhaps just the key content from 1 minute 20 seconds to 1 minute 59 seconds.
So, how do they do it? Some systems have a timecode for each video program - and the learner can then create a link to just that segment. For example, it might be something like name-of-program: View 01:20 Step 01:59.
As instructional producers, we need to prepare for more and more segmentation of larger video programs. This will require agility of our LMS, Video Systems and even our coding of internal links - that will start and stop as required. I am intrigued if learners could create their own smaller segments and forward the links on a personal basis.
3. Going to ATD in Florida? Let’s MeetUp! If you are planning on attending the ATD Conference next week in Florida, I’d love to meet up with colleagues. Send me an email to emasie@masie.com or stop by the Learning 2015 Booth #1030. I will be in Florida from Sunday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon.
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
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