The development cost of a course must therefore be paid back quickly in order to make the financial risk of developing a course reasonable. However, this offers some opportunities too. The course is being updated anyway. Drawing on resources from the World-Wide Web further helps to keep material up to date. In the same way, the dominance of vendors in this field can be turned into an advantage, by using their case studies, development methods. and tools.
Workflow management is a discipline that covers technology, organization, and methodology.
This has caused me to use a 3x3 matrix during the design of most workflow courses. It helps to strike the right educational balance and the right balance in workflow management at the same time. Situational factors dictate much of what can be done in class. The availability of tools in the class is valuable in giving the students a sense of practical value, even when these tools are only used for one or two hours during the course. When participants learn to value workflow modeling techniques not only for their result but first and foremost for the process of making them, they will use the modeling techniques in practice to facilitate the shared learning process.