I've been thinking about training needs and some of the challenges within our organisation with enabling opportunities to participate in training courses. What I find interesting is that in a full time education context a subject such a programming language would be covered over a term (semester in American speak). But training into a business has to be jammed into several very intense days. Whilst this made sense when people had to travel to attend such courses, today we don't have such constraints. But still virtual classrooms have the same approach - intense period. Yet within a business blocking someone out for 3-5 days can be disruptive (where as 1 day a week or hours per day is a lot more practical).
To me when dealing with very information rich subjects such as TOGAF having the education more elongated would be easier to digest, the core material for TOGAF runs a text of about 1000 pages.
I'd be interested to know what others think, whether anyone has ever tried to run training in a commercial environment using this different scheduling approaches? Why education/training from a education establishment still seems so different in approach to commercial approaches. But both are seeking to impart knowledge and skills?
@"Bob Rhubart-Oracle" - perhaps something for a podcast