What's wrong with IT training?
Well for me just about everything. Over the years I have been on courses by Microsoft, Cisco, Altiris, VMware and Palo Alto and they all pretty much follow the same formula. The instructor has a PowerPoint presentation or 3 which are printed out and given to you as a manual, the instructor reads from this, repeating what is written and then depending on how good they are adds in some real world stuff and bits to assist you learn, at the end of a module there is some practical work for you to do that is often a step by step guide on how to to do something. So what is wrong with all this? Well lets flip this to a different topic of learning. Swimming. If you wanted to teach someone to swim would you sit them in at the poolside, show them some photos of someone swimming with a brief explanation of what they were doing? Then put them on a plank in the water so they didn't sink and let them read a bunch of words on how to move their arms like the person in the picture? For me t...