Our APPROACH

If you compare the architecture for these advanced virtual-reality courses with the outlines for any premium business training, you will find the topics are similar. However, there are some important differences between this on-the-job experiential approach and in-class or traditional on-line courses.

Teacher-Text driven training programs generally rely on limited view points and expect all students to conform to a common secular-material world view and to acknowledge the value of current best practices. In contrast, this approach gleefully acknowledges that current wisdom and "best practices" are not likely to be seen as either wise or best in a few years. The business geniuses on the covers of Fortune and Business Week are likely to reappear on those same covers as examples of the worst of management blunders. In this training you will have the opportunity to compare and contrast world views and will be expected to come to your own conclusions with regard to what are truly "best practices."

This web-based virtual-reality training puts much greater responsibility for both motivation and performance on you and much less on the "teacher-text." If you are self-motivated, self-disciplined and hungry for the knowledge and skills that will accelerate your career, the approach used in this training will be a good fit. If you rely heavily on a teacher to tell you what to do and when to do it, you will find this training frustrating. If you are the kind of person who expects the teacher to tell you what is important, what will be tested and when it will be tested, this training is not for you. While undergraduate and many graduate programs are built around a single academic textbook, this training uses multiple texts and dozens of professional resources. You will not be able to study or even scan all the resources available to you, but will be expected to make intelligent choices about what to read and absorb.

In this approach, what you write and how you write definitely matters. In most online training programs, much of what the student submits in writing is ignored. The approach used in this training is that EVERY written submission is archived, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. The archived written materials are available for scrutiny by the university and employer and are used for performance assessment purposes.