Flexible Training Options
The furious pace of business and technology today demands training options that are both cost and time-efficient for both your company and IT staff. WebSphere Education meets these challenges with flexible training delivery methods that let you maximize your training budget, including courses available online or locally in more than 55 countries around the world.
You can choose from several training options, including:
- Publicly scheduled training at IBM WebSphere Education Centers
- Onsite/Private training
- e-Learning options, including Instructor Led Online, self-paced, Web-based and streaming Web seminars
Open enrollment public classes
WebSphere Education offers a broad range of courses across our curriculum at regularly scheduled times at IBM and Partner Training Centers across the US, Europe and Asia. Classes are offered in sessions ranging from two to five days and many include hands-on labs to reinforce the material taught by our instructors. Publicly scheduled courses are ideal for training a small group of team members from your company. You can view an updated schedule of public classes from the WebSphere Education homepage by visiting the WebSphere Curriculum section.
Onsite/Private Training
If you need to train a large number of team members or you require training for a specific skill set then IBM WebSphere Education Private Training is an optimal solution for your training requirements. With WebSphere Education Private Training you can customize any of our available courses by tailoring the course content to address your specific environment, project, or resource needs, and optional mentoring to ensure that your resources put what they learn to immediate, productive use. Our instructors deliver the training, including hands-on labs, at your location saving your company both costs and time. To learn more about private training and to understand if it meets your specific training needs, complete this simple online form that will allow an IBM Training Representative to begin assessing your training requirements and begin building your training plan. Or, for prompt and personalized service, you can contact WebSphere Education at websphere_skills@us.ibm.com.
e-Learning/Online Learning
WebSphere Education offers over 100 remote and self-paced training sessions in addition to our classroom-based curriculum. These courses provide the same content as classroom courses but with the advantage and cost-saving of learning from your location and on your schedule. You can choose from a wide spectrum of introductory to deep dive classes to meet your education goals. In addition, many of our eLearning education offerings are free of charge.
To help you select the format that best suits your preferred learning style, the table below provides a comparison of the features for the four different types of online learning offered by WebSphere Education.
| Course Type | Description | Offered | Scope | Technical Training |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instructor-Led Online (ILO) Training | The instructor teaches lessons, leads Q&A sessions, and provides lab assistance by shadowing student workstations | Offered monthly for same number of days as the classroom equivalent | Offers the advantages of an instructor-led class with the convenience of a remote class | Course content is delivered via live instruction and through Central lab machines |
| Self-Paced Virtual Classroom | Provides identical content to corresponding classroom courses | Monthly: Long duration allows student to complete at convenience | Technical Classroom Equivalent | Video lectures (downloadable), labs, and quizzes |
| Web-Based Training (WBT) | Self-directed and self-paced | On demand: 365 days a year | Introductory material and specialized topics | In-depth lessons, simulations, recommended exercises |
| Streaming Web Seminar | Introductory or specialized material in a self-paced, streaming format | On demand: 365 days a year | High-level overviews and specialized topics | Pre-recorded instructor videos and quizzes |