Sound interesting?

Very!

Think of it like the Command General Staff College. Most of it is strategy and book learning anyway, and everything you learn you need to take back and practice with your friends. Only a handful of these are designed for range time anyway.

Sounds very interesting. What type of pricing would you be imagining for this?

By the way, dig the sig line. Love that movie.

You may want to check out Moodle and Google's OpenMeeting as core technologies in this endeavor.  The openmeeting stuff is really cool.  Gives you video conference/classroom.  Moodle is course management system designed for online training.  They are designed to integrate together, and in some testing we have done where I work, they appear pretty slick.

Unfortunately I was stuck on a different more mundane project writing a custom front end to limesurvey, so I just know the end results, not the steps to get there.

If I have some time, I will play around and try to ping you if I get a test portal set-up.

Ok then. My wife has a system that they already use for web conferencing and trainings at her company that they are ging to allow us to use as well. Right now I am taking the available time off my feet to format the rest of the classes I haven't finished yet in the required formats. But these are live formats, I show you the ppt or slide show and we discuss the slide real time. Then, since you now have the POI (period of instruction) and have been thru the class, you are the SME (subject matter expert, pay attention to these terms as you will hear them again) and now go out and train your group, family, friends or whatever.

It is true that no web based seminar will ever take the place of live training. But in todays day and age, who can afford to take a week off and come to Utah and get hands on? In todays high speed world being exposed to these new training techniques and ideas is often more than half the battle. But you will need to take the info and practice it or impliment it on your own. And of course we are always here to help you.

When I have more info as to pricing and what classes will be ready first, I will post it. But spread the word, you may have friends ready to do these with you.

In the interest of providing you the best possible response-base, I did not abstain from voting just because my answer was no.

Being in IT, I get alot of training all the time from various sources.  More and more vendors are going to Webcasts and online training as a way to cut costs.  However I avoid these due to the simple fact that it becomes very difficult (or impossible) to ask questions, thereby getting the specific answers you need (although, admittedly, a forum could partially solve that issue).

I think an online course is a fine idea, but for my part, I would be unlikely to use it.  When I'm paying for it, I prefer hands-on instruction (easy to say when I live in Arizona, eh?  ).

Of course "free" is a completely different matter.  But I do not understand that we are speaking from that angle, and I would expect your valuable time and expertise to come at a (fair) price.


-T.

First post on the new board. I am liking this place already

I would definitely be interested in some online courses. Living in Tennessee makes it difficult to take a week off and get out to Utah as you said, online courses though could offer some real potential. If they are live events, it would certainly work better to have them evenings than during the day.

I think it is a great idea!

I would definitely be interested. Do you have any timeline in mind for these courses yet? Maybe you should start a mailing list to keep people informed of updates and course availability.

+1

If you need any input, I have taken several online webcasts from the American Chemical Society that were EXTREMELY interactive, user-friendly, and open to communication between instructor and students!

I'm interested and would  like to hear more about these seminars if you proceed further with this.