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Mid-Pacific
ICT Center
NSF Center Efforts to Improve Regional ICT Education Using CENIC
March 9-11, 2009 • Long Beach, CA • cenic09.cenic.org
This material is funded in part by the National Science Foundation Grant DUE 0802284
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Mid-Pacific ICT (MPICT) Center
• Launched 10/08 with NSF Advanced
Technological Education (ATE) Grant
– 4-years, $3 million
• City College of San Francisco
– Ocean Campus (S107)
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What is ICT?
An umbrella term, widely used outside the U.S. and in the United Nations, to encompass all rapidly emerging, evolving & converging:
– computer, – software, – networking, – telecommunications, – Internet, – programming and – information systems technologies.
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Why is ICT Important?
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• We all increasingly depend on ICT for productivity and connectivity – directly and indirectly.
• Because of that, improvements to deployed technology, communications infrastructure, and people’s ability to productively use them are issues of tremendous strategic importance, to:
– Local, State and National Economies– Individuals Seeking Career Advancement– Organizations in Accomplishing Their Missions
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Why Are CCs Important to ICT Ed?
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• At $20/unit, California Community Colleges are the most cost-effective way of pushing ICT knowledge and skills out into our communities.
• Investments in Community College ICT Education have tremendous impact.
• Many do not understand Community College value.
• About half of CC ICT Program Students are Working Professionals.
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MPICT’s Mission
MPICT’s mission is to coordinate, promote and improve the quality of ICT education, with an emphasis on 2-year colleges, in a region consisting of:
– Northern California, – Northern Nevada, – Southern Oregon, – Hawaii and – the Pacific Territories.
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Population Served
• > 50 Community Colleges in Northern California Alone
• + 4-year Colleges & Universities
• + High Schools
• + Schools out of Region via Other NSF Centers
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Population Served
• NSF Peer Reviewer:
• Why isn’t this being done by the State of California or the California Community College System?
• > 25 Community Colleges in rest of region
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MPICT’s Goals
1. Develop partnerships among higher education institutions to
increase and improve the region’s ICT education capacity.
2. Deepen and expand collaboration with industry to create an ICT
workforce that fully meets the region’s economic needs.
3. Identify, implement and disseminate ICT education best practices in
the region, working towards a standardization of ICT competencies,
skills and education approaches.
4. Develop fully articulated ICT education pathways and work to
implement it throughout the region.
5. Expand and diversify the region’s ICT workforce.
6. Enhance linkages to global ICT educators and employers.
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Organizational Model
• NVC – Jim Dolgonas
• Advisory Panel– Brian Court
• Networks Together California Schools
• Provides Excellent Technology Tools
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Educational Institution Engagement
• Regional Partners– Co-lead major Center Effort– Obtain a Sub-Award from the Grant for Support– Assist in Other Center Efforts and Attend Center Events
• Regional Associates– Assist in Center Efforts– Participate in Center Events
• Regional Connected Colleges– Benefit from Center Efforts and Access Center Work Products
• Other Regional Centers and Global Institutions– Collaborate with Center & Access Center Work Products
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MPICT Core Team at CCSF
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Initial Regional Partners
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ICT Collaboration Web
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Advisory Panel
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Opportunities for Impact
• Harmonize Courses, Degrees, Terminology and Certifications
• Develop and Disseminate ICT Standards
• Develop ICT Proficiency Standards and Testing
• Coordinate Articulation and Transfer
• Recruitment and Marketing
• Curriculum Sharing and Dissemination
• Coordinate Interaction and Input from Industry
• Professional Development and Events
• Improve Counselor and Prospective Student Communications
• Develop Regional Meeting &Technology Showcase Facilities
• Coordinate Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft and Other Industry ICT Training Relationships
• Global Best Practices Acquisition and Dissemination
• Disseminate Experiential Learning Strategies
• Facilitate Cooperation Between IT Departments and ICT Academic Departments
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Activities in Cooperation with CENIC
• Use CalREN to Benefit ICT Education
– Distribute ICT Guest Lectures
– Use CalREN Topologies as Teaching Tools
– Distribute Lab Access Across Colleges
– Create Multi-Node WAN Labs Across Colleges
– Connect High Schools to Community College ICT Programs and Resources
– Connect CC ICT Programs to ICT Resources at 4-Year Colleges and Universities
– Distance Learning
• All Schools Already Connected
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Use ICT Collaboration Technologies, Networks and Resource Sharing to Improve ICT Education
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Activities in Cooperation with CENIC
• Promote Use of
CCCConfer for
Community
College ICT
Education
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Activities in Cooperation with CENIC
• Explore Use of
CalREN Video
Services to
Improve ICT
Education
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Use ICT Collaboration Technologies, Networks and Resource Sharing to Improve ICT Education
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Activities in Cooperation with CENIC
• Promote Use of
3CTV for
Community
College ICT
Education
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Use ICT Collaboration Technologies, Networks and Resource Sharing to Improve ICT Education
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Activities in Cooperation with CENIC
• Explore
Collaboration With
and Promotion of
EduStream VOD
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Activities in Cooperation with CENIC
• January 8-9, 2009 in San Francisco
• 132 Attendees
• Outstanding Industry Contributions– Apple Keynote (MacWorld Passes)– Microsoft IT Academies (25% Discounts)
– Cisco Networking Academies
– Juniper Academic Alliance
– IBM Academic Alliance
– Oracle Academy
– EMC Academic Alliance
– Cengage Learning
– VMWare Academy
– Adobe
• Outstanding ICT Educator Presentations
• CENIC 101
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Winter 2009 ICT Educators Conference
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Activities in Cooperation with CENIC
• June 15-19, 2009 in San Francisco
• ICT Faculty Professional Development
• Training to Teach New Courses
• Training on Effective Pedagogy
– Experiential Learning
• Training on ICT Tools
– CCC Confer and Others
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Summer 2009 ICT Educators Summit
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Exciting Effort Underway
• Making Rich Course Offerings Available to
Students Throughout the Region
• Leveraging Equipment Investments
• Leveraging Teaching Efforts
• Pilot Fall 2009
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Make ICT Courses at One Community College Available to Students at Many Community Colleges
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Exciting Effort Underway
• Fewer intellectual copy right issues
• Faster course approval process
• At the intersection of vocational and
degree programs
• Industry workers as adjunct faculty
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Community Colleges can change courses easier than 4-year institutions
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Exciting Effort Underway
• Not enough of a local student
population interested / qualified
• Not enough qualified instructors to go
around the state
• Higher equipment costs
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Advanced course offerings at Community Colleges often limited or non-existent
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Exciting Effort Underway
• Live online course instruction
• Live remote access to Juniper Routers, first time
accomplished with VPN to Web interface, made
possible specifically for this project
• Classes archived
• Free access to portal through grant from CA CC
Chancellor’s office
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Use of CCCConfer (Elluminate) and SFCC Juniper Academy
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Exciting Effort Underway
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Exciting Effort Underway
• In this environment, students and instructors can
demonstrate, conduct sessions and lead breakout groups
• Also considering offering
– Cisco CCNP
– EMC Information Storage and Management
– Adobe
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One of several classes using these tools in our pilot program starting Fall semester 2009