The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the opening of a national computer training center to act as the hub for four regional IT training centers as well as three more planned to open this year.
According to the VA, its new National IT Training Academy will rely in part on remote virtualization to train IT trainers at the regional sites and other IT professionals working across all VA activities. It says the center will reduce training costs by being able to train 200 employees remotely and at the same time.
It said the regional centers would be able to deliver training to each other simultaneously through a VA distance learning network and to train VA staff nationwide whose work involves automated data systems, including through teleconferencing with the academy.
Training formats are to include interactive video, online courses, on-demand recordings and live meetings, while desktop virtualization will permit multiple operating systems and software applications to run on a single computer, said the VA.