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Singapore, 28 May 2003
According to Dr Andy DiPaolo, Director of the Stanford Center for Professional Development at Stanford University, the shelf life of an IT professional’s skills can be as short as just two years. Due to such rapid knowledge turnaround, it is essential for IT professionals to re-educate themselves continuously. Fortunately it is also getting easier for IT professionals to continuously upgrade and refresh their technical skills with the exponential growth of e-Learning in the last few years. The very nature of IT training and education makes it ideally suitable for e-Learning. In many ways, the character of online education mirrors what is already practised in the IT workplace today. Very often IT professionals work in teams whose members are scattered throughout the world. Since virtual teamwork is the way they will eventually function in the workplace, online courses acts as a prelude to online working and prepare students to work in that environment. Because of this continuous need to update the skills of IT professionals, progressive companies are also increasingly turning to e-Learning as a means to train their employees on the latest technologies. The nature of e-Learning allows large numbers of employees at different far-flung locations to be trained simultaneously either synchronously or asynchronously with minimal disruption to their work. Due to the necessity to upgrade technical skills, employers are integrating continuing education into their hiring strategies, using it as a recruiting tool. They're turning to universities and non-university organisations to help them build, manage or even run their e-Learning infrastructure.
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