In the traditional model of IT training, classroom education is followed by on-the-job experience whereby an individual first spends a substantial amount of time in general schooling with little or no hands-on experience prior to employment.
• Under the traditional model, the worker’s credentials are based solely upon the fulfillment of the classroom training, which can be very general and nonspecific to the work at hand
• requiring workers to extrapolate general principles to specific work activities
Workers find these extrapolations difficult, reducing the value and relevancy of their training and make the credential an incomplete indicator of competency.