Abstract: A method for creating an educational product, or training experience, is herein described. The training experience includes a learning experience to impart knowledge on training experience participants, a networking experience to allow training experience participants to interact with a relevant peer group during training, a guest experience providing a defined level of interest and focus by participants during the training experience, and an enculturation experience to integrate training experience participants into the culture of the sponsoring organization. The training experience may be created through an assessment phase, a planning phase, a design phase, and an implementation stage, with subsequent product evaluation and revisions. Various milestones and checkpoints may be used to ensure that a level of phenomenality is achieved by the final training experience.

Abstract: An educational product evaluation apparatus and method stores business goal rule data and analyzes an educational product based on the stored business goal rule data to determine how an educational product of interest, or a group of educational products of interest, conforms to the business goal rule data and hence strategic objectives of a business organization or other suitable entity. In one embodiment, analysis of the educational product includes generating one or more educational product alignment values for the educational product wherein the educational product alignment value is based on the educational product evaluation category values received, for example, from a learning management system or other source, and based on the stored business goal rule data. An educational product summary, such as a displayed form or printed form or other suitable representation, visually shows an overall business alignment value for each educational product under consideration.