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Be Your Own Boss Series | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Course Overview

The Be Your Own Boss Technopreneur Series provides the guidelines, insights, and advice needed to launch successful tech ventures.

The series features video presentations by entrepreneurs from around the world who share lessons learned along their journeys to success. 

Benefits

Technology students interested in developing the entrepreneurial skills and habits needed to launch and grow a successful technology business.

Learning Components

• 8 modules
• Technopreneurs sharing personal success stories in video format
• Quizzes and surveys for each module

Features

Target Audience: General audience

Prerequisites: None

Languages: English

Course Delivery: Instructor -led or Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 8 hours

Recommended Next Course: Entrepreneurship

21st Century Skills

New CCNA R&S Bridging Course Available

Technology is constantly evolving and CCNA certifications have been updated keeping up with the demands of today’s networking careers. 

Cisco Networking Academy is now offering  the CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging Course, which together with the CCNA R&S 5.X curriculum, is in full alignment with the CCNA R&S Certification.

All instructors have access to the English version of the CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging Course. Additional languages of French, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish will release in July and August. You have access to a free self-paced CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging Course that covers the new supplemental topics that are included in the new Certification Exams.

New Topics Aligning to Certification

Academy Cube | Learning and Job Platform in the STEM Field

What is Academy Cube?

Academy Cube is a career and eLearning platform which resolves the mismatch on the international labour market as well as the gap between classical education and industry’s future requirements.The platform offers an intelligent matching system that shows talents from theSTEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) which qualifications they are missing to enter the labour market. It offers them the right trainings and networks highly qualified applicants with top employers.

Common approach for your students

High-quality, practice-oriented learning activities from industry leading partners prepare talents for the new requirements of the business environment
Trainings on current topics such as Internet of Things (IoT) / Industry 4.0
80% of the courses are free of charge with special discounts for students on paid certifications
Direct contact for your students to international and local companies looking for talents

Postgraduate Degree CCNA Security, VMWare & CCNP

The university college in Brussels, HUB-KAHO & Odisee, offer a postgraduate degree programme in CCNA Security, CCNP Route & Switch and VMWare VCP. You can enroll either in September or in January. The course is in English and focuses on hands-on labs.

Long explanation
Download PostgraduateDegreeProgrammeICTInfrastructureNetworkManagement2014-2015(1)

Short explanation
Download PG ICT Infrastructure & Network Management

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Published on 27 Feb 2013

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE), and learn more at tedprize.org.

BiASC Activities 2014: ASC + ITC + ARC

These are the main activities of BiASC for the year 2014

1. Studying, researching and preparing new IT curricula for academies*
2. Onboarding: supporting new and existing academies*
3. Providing Academy Orientation: informing and advising academies*, trainers and instructors about evolutions and new trends both in the domain of IT and in Pedagogy
4. Organizing and attending international conferences about evolutions and new trends both in the domain of IT and in Pedagogy
5. Training teachers and instructors
6. Promoting new and helpful resources
7. Aligning international courses with local curriculum; Adapting and Translating course materials
8. Accrediting instructors to teach protected curricula
9. Collaborating to improve the teaching and learning of IT
10. Sponsoring competitions for IT students in the field of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship

*Academies are university colleges and other educational institutions

Networking Academy Pedagogy Changes

Networking Academy strives at using the best pedagogical practices available when designing course materials. The focus in the  new courses is on "mastery". Other keywords: Model Building, Telling Stories, Playing Games

More details: 

• Download P1 Jeremy PedagogicalChanges_Final_7-30-2013
• Download P1 Dennis Cisco Packet Tracer 6.0.1

Not Only Networking Skills

Source

Harbrinder Kang, Director of Communications, Cisco Social Responsibility, Cisco Systems

Networking Academy Leadership Team

Academy Conference 2013 - Networking Academy Overview

Netacad from 2013 to 2018

Source

Harbrinder Kang, Director of Communications, Cisco Social Responsibility, Cisco Systems

Networking Academy Leadership Team

Academy Conference 2013 - Networking Academy Overview

Lifecycle of a student

Source

Harbrinder Kang, Director of Communications, Cisco Social Responsibility, Cisco Systems

Networking Academy Leadership Team

Academy Conference 2013 - Networking Academy Overview

Networking Academy Backgrounds - Rich Learning Environments

Here is a presentation offering an overview and some backgrounds about the Networking Academy rich learning environmnet which has grown better and better over the years.

PPTX:  Download Netacad-Rich-Learning-Environment

PPT:   Download Netacad-Rich-Learning-Environment

PDF:  Download Netacad-Rich-Learning-Environment

 

Technology Evolution Goals

Engaging Classroom Learning Experience

Netspace Learning Environment

Innovation in Teaching and Learning