This week I had the opportunity to talk with Sun Microsystem's CTO of Sun Learning Services. He posted a video on You Tube this week of their Mobile Learning initiative using the iPhone and iPod Touch. (See below for video)

Training videos are available "just in time, just the right size and exactly what they are looking for." For those without WiFi connectivity content can be preloaded using RSS feeds through iTunes. Corporate security is enforced in the background, only allowing access to those authorized.

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Although there are a number of examples of mobile learning and performace support here on this site, the most common question in sessions and from trainers unfamiliar with mobile learning is about examples. For example, "Show me what you can really accomplish (or learn) with one of those small screens."

Unfortunately many of the best examples are proprietary and the owners consider them to be their competitive advantage.

So, while continuing to seek out and post examples, I decided to put together a demo for input and to track the time required to create it. Not a finished project, but a good draft completed in about 3 hours is now available at http://crisisresponse.mobi . Check it out and give us your feedback. We'd love to hear your suggestions for improvement.

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I received the following in my email today as a Google alert:

A Consultant in Your Pocket -- AthenaOnline Delivers Free Mobile ...

PR Web (press release), WA - 9 hours ago AthenaOnline announced today that they have released their entire library of short leadership advice videos SmartBytes for use on 3GP cellular phones. ...

When I click on it, I get automatically sent to http://www.myquickcoach.com with no mention of their mobile library being available for free, however the full press release is also available here in PDF. It states "With almost 1,000 videos it is the largest body of management training content currently available for mobile learning. What’s more, Athena announced that the mobile SmartBytes will be made available absolutely free through a special cell phone site that they have set up."

Although it says that the iPhone version is coming, I was able to access some of the videos on my iPhone, but not on my Windows Mobile device.

Note that this appears to be very good content from some known experts which is normally available at $325 per person, per year.

If you have a 3G phone, please go to www.SmartBytes.mobi and advise your experience.

I have to assume that they are giving these away free for now to build mobile learning credibility, but that will change once the demand builds. What do you think?