Traditional education delivery poses challenges to both to the student and the educator. These challenges are universal and affect the organization’s ability to remain competitive.
“An organization’s ability to LEARN, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” Jack Welch - GE
As the cost of technology continues to drop, organizations from all industries continue to adopt newer technologies at an exponential rate. This has been good for cost and productivity, but has placed increased training demands on the part of overworked staffs.
The fact that businesses are adopting technology at a faster pace than ever before is creating a "Learning Gap."
“Learning Gap is the time between when a professional has exposure to a change in existing technology and when they can get the needed training or continuing education.”
IQ Velocity solutions are designed to bridge this expanding "Learning Gap."
Learning Gap - From the Student's Perspective
Today, a typical IT professional faces many of the following obstacles between them and the instruction they need:
- Training is often not available in a reasonable window of time.
- Students face class cancellations beyond their control.
- Sudden shifts in IT priorities often prevent the paid student to miss his/her class and rescheduling can be months later.
- Due to a ‘Drink from the Fire Hose’ delivery style, students suffer from poor learning retention.
- Students experience a need for access to the instructor and learning resources throughout the year, not just during the single class event.
- Students complain that only a small percentage of the Curriculum is relevant for their situation and the remainder of the class is a waste of their time.
- Students demand access to Real World experience not just ‘Trained Trainers’ or book theory, but the only thing available is traditional classroom.
- Not having a backup trained or not having the budget to get a secondary person access to the needed training.
- When a student leaves a traditional classroom setting, they lose upwards of 60% because they don’t always apply their learning immediately; and thus, then require access to the training resources and refresher events beyond the initial event.
- Travel budgets continue to be reduced or eliminated, thus putting necessary training on the back burner.
- Time away from the office is becoming increasingly difficult due to smaller staffs challenged with doing more with less.
- Natural staff attrition or need to transition assignments creates the need to retrain on existing functions.
- Increased pressure to remain knowledgeable across more IT domains than in previous years.
- Existing technology is in a constant state of change and the professionals who run them must have access to instruction at increasing intervals.
- Geographically dispersed teams who require access to training find it cost prohibitive to ship everyone to a central location.
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