the middle way

I remember making the decision between the Corporate track vs. the Educational track was challenging for me, when filling out the application for the IT program. I was working as a project manager at a small non-profit based out of West Philly, that built low-power radio stations around the world. The mission of the Prometheus Radio Project was one that I believed in -to not only provide an alternative to the redundant media controlled by mammoth media conglomerates, but to help people actually build that media outlet together with their hands.

It seemed like a lot of pressure to categorize my future work into either the education track or the corporate track, since I'd been doing something in between. I thought of all the possible projects that e-Learning could be applied to in a meaningful way in the non-profit sector. While I was looking at some websites on the topic, I found this one:http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/nonprofit/nonprofit.shtml-- about a book called, Making E-Learning Work in the Non-Profit Sector.

The book talks about the similarities and unique differences in the type of needs that for-profit corporations and non-profits have. The major obstacle for the non-profit being that most have little money, if any at all, to put aside for training. I'll be exploring the trends of e-Learning in the non-profit sector continually here, so I'll talk more in depth about this and other issues and challenges involved on this topic.