IT Trainer Equals Artist

IT training professionals are critical in business production. As the world becomes more and more computer technology dependent, so do businesses, if they wish to compete. However, this presents a problem. Information technology is constantly and rapidly evolving creating huge amounts of information that is often too much and unnecessary for employees to comprehend. IT trainers must be able to filter out what information is critical for employees to learn as not to waste company resources. Therefore, an IT trainer is an artist of computer science rather than a representative of computer science.

"Here at Harvard our students believe it is better to create a job rather than find one"

I just saw The Social Network movie for the second time…and I am still amazed at the insight and innovation Mark Zuckerburg had at such a young age. I am 26 and my whole college career I have been told and molded for this one point …to get a job. It is my senior year, and even though I have a career line up for myself...I am not sure that my college experience was design to allow me to obtain a job. What this have to do with technology and training? The title of this post is from the movie The Social Network which is an amazing quote from the President of Harvard. The IT industry has two folds…existing technology and cutting edge technology. However, there is also the idea of future technology which can come from existing or cutting edge. My training class instructor just gave us an assignment to research articles on m-learning and the pivotal aspect I learned from this whole experience is that the idea or concept of m-learning is still in its very early stages and it is evolving quickly plus the technology behind m-learning is wide open. A part of me wants to stop everything I have work so hard for and become a pioneer of technology…Microsoft was the biggest idea to hit the computer technology after IBM created the PC, and Facebook was the has been the next greatest thing since email to hit the Internet…what is next? Are there any more huge different ideas out there? Impact is the key indegredit to technology not the technology itself. I challenge every college student especially those who do not attend Ivy league Universities to create their next career rather than find their next career!

M-learning

I read an article that talk about how a university is “pioneering” in mobile learning. First I think it is important to understand what is exactly is “Mobile learning” AKA m-learning-this term is referred to using mobile computer devices:(cell phones, mp3 players, PC tablets, notebooks) as the media delivery for education and training purposes.; this my very general definition. The article paints a picture of what the university did to bring m-learning to the campus, but does not give any insight as to how successful it has been. My thoughts are for younger generations born before 1989 technology learning applications are intuitive, where as people born after 1989 computer technology was introduce to them at later ages especially those born after 1980. Therefore, how does m-learning affect the current work force from ages 26 and up?

Just thinking...

I work for a small law firm business; my biggest challenge is how to I convince my boss that upgrading to better technology is worth the time, money, and training need in order to make the business more successful. Most of the employees at this firm were born somewhere in the range of 1950’s to the 1960’s, therefore, a lot of software application is just not intuitive. Coming up with training for 4 to 5 people with little aptitude for technology is hard enough; I can only imagine the problems that can occur for training a company or corporation of hundreds of employees.

Training Systems

I am taking a course right now that talks about information systems (IS) as it applies to business. The point my professor has made is that IS technology should support and be align with the business strategy. Therefore, i believe the technology used to create a training system for a company should also be align with the technology used to create the IS.