I've seen Pluralsight subscriptions being offered; now I think they moved to Udacity or Udemy (note: this isn't 1 to 1 with learning your subject area -- anyone can learn anything so long as it was available in the license). There has been talk about reimbursing for resources like those used personally, too, like CodeSchool (rip) and Packt Pub, but I never tried it since I buy that stuff for myself.
I think it works best if it's legitimately used to further skills while on the clock. My place gives out licenses on a "use it or lose it" policy, but never actually allocates time to professional development, so it's "have free time or lose it". The employer-sponsored training should be done on employer-sponsored time.
They do Lunch-n-Learns to get large knowledge transfers going, but it feels very much like /r/IAmA. In the early days, it was coworkers sharing their knowledge area. Now they just bring in PhDs from local universities to talk about their ultra niche subject for an hour. Not helpful in the slightest.
I prefer to loosey goosey learn on my own with ebooks or grad school as I already have been.
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I've seen Pluralsight subscriptions being offered; now I think they moved to Udacity or Udemy (note: this isn't 1 to 1 with learning your subject area -- anyone can learn anything so long as it was available in the license). There has been talk about reimbursing for resources like those used personally, too, like CodeSchool (rip) and Packt Pub, but I never tried it since I buy that stuff for myself.
I think it works best if it's legitimately used to further skills while on the clock. My place gives out licenses on a "use it or lose it" policy, but never actually allocates time to professional development, so it's "have free time or lose it". The employer-sponsored training should be done on employer-sponsored time.
They do Lunch-n-Learns to get large knowledge transfers going, but it feels very much like /r/IAmA. In the early days, it was coworkers sharing their knowledge area. Now they just bring in PhDs from local universities to talk about their ultra niche subject for an hour. Not helpful in the slightest.
I prefer to loosey goosey learn on my own with ebooks or grad school as I already have been.