Talk:Tooling University

Major Revision to Page
As is pointed out below, the original text of this page was taken from our company web site. Although other contributors made improvements to the text, the result was not a concise, objective description of the company. On 2/8/07, I made the following changes:

1. I added some clarification regarding whether or not we offer a degree and elaborated on how people are using our training. We simply do not offer a degree of any sort, so the original text struck me as misleading.

2. I also added a new section detailing the subjects we address in our training and describing how our training is organized. This struck me as a useful resource for others to clearly outline what our content does and does not address. The original text left this area a bit mysterious, and it was also significantly outdated.

3. There's also a new section explaining use and delivery of material on our custom LMS vs. larger companies that use training on their own enterprise LMS. This is an issue that is shared by other online vendors, and it seemed relevant to anyone using this page as a research tool.

4. Lastly, I removed the information regarding our investors. This information is publicly available on our company web site, but with the new changes, it is most likely peripheral to the topic at hand.

I realize that I cannnot create this material and wholly separate myself from the topic at hand, but I made every effort to maintain an objective and "non-sales" contribution to the article. Hopefully others will continue to edit and refine this material, and I hope this offers an improvement and more accurate picture compared to the previous version.

Greg Herlevi Director of Content Development Tooling University

This article is mostly a cut and paste from http://www.toolingu.com/aboutus.aspx. It's being posted by "Toolingu", so they're not likely to complain. Still, I'll try to tone down the advertising a bit. --John Nagle 18:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

No accreditation
From Jack Shron, Jr., President, Tooling University: "Don't let our name confuse you. Tooling U is not an accredited university, nor is accreditation necessary for the service we provide. For the most part, the type of training we deliver is considered workforce development training. Our classes should always be used in a blended learning curriculum incorporating online training at Tooling U, instructor-led training at a school or company and “lab” time in the form of work in the machining lab at school, or on the production floor at work.".

So please don't remove "unaccredited" from the article. Thanks.

I think the article states this too many times. It is biased against schools that do not have accredidation. I think this article is biased. Tooling U is a much better school than other acredited online schools that know nothing about the industry. I think the article should only state once that it is unaccredited from an acidemic standpoint, but it is acredited from an inustrial standpont. 216.114.95.129 (talk) 14:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Page Contribution
How do I invite people to contribute more to this page?


 * It just happens. It's now linked to machining articles, and will probably be picked up by the machining community. Give it some time.  This takes weeks to months.  --John Nagle 18:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
There are problems with the formatting of the article (it displays wiht images overlapping section breaks in Firefox). It has "articles about Tooling U" (which reads as a linkspam list), but none of them are referenced as sources. If they are not sources, they should probably not be in there. Also, the article reads like an advertisement.

It's not a horrible article, but it does not give a good impression. Just zis Guy you know? 19:28, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Notability
Someone recently put a "notability" tag on this article. While this article started as pure advertising for the organization, enough people have now brought it back to neutrality that it's not WP:VAIN any more. The organization seems to get reasonably good mentions in the machining trade press. Manpower, the big temporary agency, works with Tooling University, which is a reasonably good endorsement. They seem to be mentioned by most of the organizations in metal-cutting. So they seem to be reasonably notable.

I have no connection with Tooling U., but I have used machine tools now and then. --John Nagle 21:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)