Education

6. Education: why it is important for students to be able to experience latest technologies for their improvement? From their career and professional development perspective. Technology is changing fast and IT is changing even faster. Data storage and transfer devices, operating systems and applications are improving and following each other in change. Floppy discs that were used by many people are not seen in the office environment anymore. Windows NT was a very popular operating system once. Nobody uses it today. Keeping up with technology in educational or training environment is highly advised to gain demanding skills. Considering the goal of professional development or education as to increase the skills, experience, knowledge and qualifications, it is better to train students or trainees with latest technology available since they are going to be asked to use the latest technology available. Otherwise training can be waste of time and valuable resources such as time and money. Using latest technology in training enhances self esteem of trainees. They can meet market demands with high confidence if they are familiar with the technology used in the marketplace. Prominent organizations generally use latest technology. Professional Development Goal is to increase the skills, experience, knowledge, qualifications of staff. In House Training: Consultancy, Contracting, Own Staff (assign a staff on a specific topic), Computer Based Training: mostly technical issues Outsourcing: Lunch and Learn: For attracting people for training, meeting etc. Training can be scheduled around lunch time.