How Training Professionals use their time - pioneering research at Training 2007
The Institute of IT Training and Watsonia Publishing, a leading IT training courseware publisher and developer of courseware-customisation technology, will use next week's Training 2007 Conference to conduct groundbreaking research into how IT Training Managers and other training professionals divide their time between IT training delivery, IT training research and learning, IT courseware development and other related activities.
It is widely recognised that the role of the IT training professional has been changing - often quite dramatically. However, there is very little reliable data on how today's IT Training specialists actually carry out their jobs.
The findings will provide the Institute of IT Training with valuable insights into the work of its members, allowing it to benchmark roles and responsibilities against others across the profession.
The survey has been commissioned by Watsonia Publishing, experts in the field of customisable and reusable learning materials for Microsoft Office and other desktop training rollouts.
Watsonia Publishing has helped IITT members and other UK organisations to streamline the rapid production and customisation of paper-based IT course materials: helping training departments to quickly produce high-quality learning materials.
"We expect that the results of this carefully planned research are likely to provide authoritative evidence of how little time training professionals actually have to be productive and to add value to their organisation. We see this every day with clients struggling to produce high-quality, task-tailored course materials in a timely and productive fashion," said David Kelly, CEO of Watsonia Publishing UK. "Watsonia Publishing's courseware and courseware-customisation products help to reduce the time it takes to develop the kind of highly-tailored, task-based courseware needed in today's IT training projects."
Delegates at Training 2007 will be presented with the findings of the research on the day. Designed by respected research and market intelligence providers Pardo Fox, the survey findings are expected to make fascinating reading for all IT Training Professionals and will be published in IT Training Magazine and IT Skills Research, the leading source of information for the UK Information Technology training industry.