Posts Tagged ‘IT Community’
LinkedIn’s Perspective on Soft Skills
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) each quarter convenes its Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) to discuss workplace trends and essential job skills that students need to know so they can get hired. “Soft skills” is always a big discussion point. The employers on the CTC’s BILT time and time again express the…
Read MoreCCN Community Shares Best Practices
Four times a year, the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) convenes the Convergence College Network (CCN) – a community of 69 community colleges and universities from 27 states – to share best practices and resources. These meetings usually run via Zoom web meeting. But once a year, in conjunction with the annual Summer Working Connections…
Read MoreArticle Round-up: IT Workplace and the IT Classroom
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) is always on the lookout for technology articles and columns related to the ongoing evolution of both the IT workplace and the IT classroom. Below is a sampling of some of the things we’ve been reading these last few months. They’re worth a look, blog readers. The Math Behind…
Read MoreFour Things We Heard at WASTC
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) is a proud co-producer of the WASTC Winter ICT Educators conference in San Jose, California. CTC staff recently attended this conference and participated in three breakout presentations covering: key strategies of its Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) model(link to the BILT brochure?)that helps align curriculum to workforce needs…
Read MoreDid you miss these posts from 2018?
As 2018 comes to a close, the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) wanted to take a moment to look back at the many topics covered in its blog. In 2018, the National CTC posted 37 blog entries. Using Google Analytics, the posts below were identified as among the most popular blog posts of the year. …
Read MoreNational BILT Ends 2018 Discussing IT Progression
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) recently convened its Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) for one last time in 2018. Regular blog readers know that these BILT meetings are a forum to discuss future trends in the IT workplace. The hope is that these quarterly BILT meetings can keep educators regularly updated on the…
Read MoreAre your students curating project portfolios?
The National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) Business and Industry Leadership Team (“BILT”) has long insisted when job candidates sit down for an interview, those who have a portfolio of their work stand a better chance of getting hired. For that reason, the BILT asks that every IT program require students to create and maintain portfolios…
Read MoreStudent Feature: Jacquelyn Johnson – Lone Star College
Jacquelyn Johnson would be “pounding pavement in a parking lot” as a hospital security guard if it wasn’t for a high school teacher encouraging her to consider networking. The high school she attended offered Cisco courses as an elective, and Jacquelyn started taking these classes her sophomore year and continued throughout her senior year. It was…
Read MoreWorking Connections’ Photos and Impact
Since 2002, Working Connections professional development events – both the five-day summer sessions and the three-day winter session – have provided free training to over 700 faculty members (1850+ duplicated enrollments) in over 100 cutting-edge IT topics to keep curriculum aligned with current workforce skills. The most recent longitudinal survey data gathered from faculty attendees…
Read MoreEmerging Business Trend: Converged and Hyper-converged Infrastructure
How much do you know about “converged infrastructure” (CI) and “hyper-converged infrastructure” (HCI)? Educators may want to check with their local business group to find out what how much students need to know about these two kinds of architecture. The CTC recently came across a couple of columns from IT Business Edge that discusses the…
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