Blended Learning for the IT Professional

Finally, a blended learning approach that works for IT professionals. Traditionally in selecting IT training solutions, the choice is either conventional classroom training or self-paced online learning courses. Now the best of these traditional alternatives is available in Instructor-led Internet Learning.

Instructor-led Internet Learning (IIL) is live, Web-based courses. Using a base of qualified instructors, IIL delivers high quality, courses in the most cost-effective manner possible. Live Web training reduces travel, lodging, and lost work time costs while maintaining classroom quality results.

IIL training mimics a traditional classroom setting in nearly all ways. Many students actually feel more comfortable using this method as they are in familiar settings and there is a certain amount of anonymity in a Web classroom. The student receives the same quality training as that of a live classroom. To further this end, there is the addition and power of remote lab work. Students are given assignments as in any class, but the actual lab work is done remotely on fully hosted servers.

Traditional classroom events offer interactive training in a collaborative atmosphere but are presented in a limited time frame with higher rates and additional costs and limitations:

• Travel and lodging expenses
• Loss of productivity
• Limited retention due to information overload

Online e-learning offers lower cost, self-paced training. Quality, depth and comprehension are limited due to:

• Lack of live instructor interaction
• No real-time answers to student questions
• No real-time group interaction

Instructor-led Internet Learning solves these issues with live internet delivery of learning content. IIL curriculums include:

• Oracle developer and DBA
• Oracle Applications
• SUN Java Certification
• WebSphere Application Server
• WebSphere Commerce Suite
• VisualAge for Java
• MQSeries
• BEA Weblogic Server