Posts Tagged ‘Working Connections’
Tracking the lasting impacts of Summer Working Connections
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) recently conducted its annual longitudinal survey of attendees from the past three years of Summer Working Connections events. For those who may not know, each July, Working Connections offers cutting-edge, cost-effective professional development opportunities to current IT faculty. This helps teachers get the newest technologies and latest industry trends…
Read MoreWinter Working Connections registration opens
Last week, the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) launched registration for Winter Working Connections. Seats are already filling up fast. If you want in, act now! Regular blog readers know that Working Connections events (five days in July, three days in December) offer cutting-edge, cost-effective professional development opportunities to current community college IT faculty that’s…
Read MoreLearn from our Summer Working Connections Guest Speakers
Regular blog readers are by now well familiar with the National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) annual Summer Working Connections event. Faculty from across the country that attend Working Connections select a specific IT track and then spend five days taking a deep dive into that topic. The goal is to immediately implement what they’ve learned…
Read MoreSummer Working Connections Starts Today
Working Connections, an annual professional development event for IT faculty hosted by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), launched earlier today. We’re welcoming 139 faculty members from 23 states to take a five-day, deep dive into one of six specific topics. The goal is that these attendees will take this training back home and immediately…
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Working Connections!
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) is pleased to announce that Summer Working Connections, the successful annual IT faculty professional development event, is turning 20. The first North Texas edition of Summer Working Connections was held at Richland College in Dallas in 2002. The tracks way back then included Java, .Net Server, Visual Basic, and…
Read MoreBuilding Virtual Simulations for Advanced Technological Education
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) recently attended a special webinar hosted by Clemson University’s Center for Workforce Development (CUCWD) on the topic of using virtual reality (VR) in technician education programs. While the CUCWD has a National Science Foundation grant to develop VR modules on its EducateWorkforce online learning management system (LMS) platform (mostly for…
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Read MoreSummer Working Connections Moving Online
For the first time ever, you won’t have to travel to the blazing hot July plains of North Texas to attend Summer Working Connections. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) has decided to convert Summer Working Connections into an all-online event. IT faculty are welcome to join…
Read MoreEleven Things We Heard at the NCPN
Staff from the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) recently attended the National Career Pathways Network’s annual conference in Orlando to deliver a breakout presentation on the successful “BILT model” and the new 16-page Implementing the BILT Model of Business Engagement toolkit. You can find our “Engaging with Employers and Getting Students Workforce Ready” presentation slide deck…
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