September 4, 2008
Online Business Training, From Big Blue
IBM provides plenty of tech training — in the form of text presentations, animated teaching guides, and “serious” video games — to the companies with which it works. Now the computing giant is offering its courses not just to business partners, but to business schools as well.
In an announcement this week, IBM officials said they have opened their training materials up to colleges that have signed up with the company’s Academic Initiative, a program that offers hardware and software discounts along with instructional tools. According to IBM, more than 3,000 institutions — mostly business schools and information-science programs — are now eligible to use the newly released training programs.
The company has also unveiled a tool, available on the Academic Initiative Web site, that helps professors match IBM’s technology and resources to courses recommended by the Association for Computing Machinery. —Brock Read
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