One of the single largest challenges in planning courseware for the developer community is the sheer number of technologies we use to build the applications our businesses or passions lead us to build.  I would need an incredible budget to build just survey-type courses on all of the various Microsoft developer technologies and platforms, let alone any in-depth content.  So Microsoft Learning has come up with another product line called the Microsoft Learning Courseware Library (please note that you need to be an MCT or a CPLS in order to log into this site).  The courseware in this library is still taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers and still offered through our Certified Partners for Learning Solutions (CPLS) channel.  But it allows us to get more content that covers more areas to those of you who need it more quickly.

The kinds of content offered comes from several sources.  These include internal Microsoft Product Groups, Microsoft internal training groups, and Partners who have created the content that fills a niche:

• technology...these would be Microsoft developer technologies that we may not have covered otherwise;  for example, Commerce Server 2007 content will be going there in the next month or so.
• release...that is, if a MOC course will be out in, say March of 2008, but a Partner has something ready NOW, we can post it there for the channel to use until the Official Courseware is ready to ship.

The Courseware Library just officially launched this past Monday, September 10th. There is even an RSS feed you can subscribe to if you'd like to be notified of new courses that are posted there.  If you are really interested in digging a little deeper into what is available, contact your friendly local CPLS.  They will have all the offering information available and be able to direct you to the next available class you need.

Of course, they can do that for ANY Official Microsoft Learning Product...but you already knew that....