Furthermore, LANs have a profound impact on how organizations do work. Academic departments related to Information Systems should be guiding and improving this process. Most educators in Information Systems have educations that predate the proliferation of LANs and because of current responsibilities, they have difficulty retreading. The managements of academic departments can alleviate this problem by first recognizing that there is a problem and working for a solution. This solution can take two tracks.
Educators can receive training from a commercial training company or they can use in-house training.
Commercial training is expensive, but may be the only alternative if there is no available expertise inside the department or school. With budgets tight in most universities now, financing this training is a problem. For example, a faculty member may desire the training and be willing to teach a class on overload or for continuing education to free up funds for the training. The first author of this paper received his commercial training in this way. The first series of courses taught by the first author were attended by five staffers from the university Academic Computing Department.