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New DevNet Associate Curriculum 2020

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This course introduces the methodologies and tools of modern software development, applied to the IT and Network operations. It covers a 360 view of the domain including microservices, testing, containers and DevOps, as well as securely automating infrastructures with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Learning Component Highlights
8 Modules with 6 Videos, 23 Hands-on Labs and 5 Cisco Packet Tracer Activities
The hands-on labs are based on a specific virtual machine containing software and tools to be installed on the computers of students and instructors.
8 Quizzes, 8 Module Exam, Practice Final Exam, Final Exam, Skills Based Assessment
Practice Exam for DEVASC Certification

Course Recognitions: Certificate of Completion, Letter of Merit, Digital Badge, Cert Voucher
Recommended Next Course: CCNA, CCNP or CyberOps Associate

Why DevNet Associate?

Software skills that transform IT infrastructure
The network is facing its biggest transformation yet. As networks increasingly become programmable and software-defined, now more than ever, IT teams need partnerships between network engineers, software developers, and cybersecurity professionals. Together, these professionals create integrated, secure infrastructures and exciting new innovations.

Develop software skills needed to become a vital part of today's IT teams. You’ll learn the best practices of modern software development practices, DevOps, and how to securely interact with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to automate existing manual processes with only a few lines of code.

You’ll earn a Networking Academy badge for completing this course as well as prepare for the DevNet Associate (DEVASC 200-901) certification exam. Prior knowledge of PCAP: Programming Essentials in Python and CCNA: Introduction to Networks (ITN) or equivalent knowledge is recommended.

 

 

New Networking Academy Course Catalog - 2020

Cisco CSR has published the new Networking Academy Product Catalog with all new content and course updates. The product catalog offers a description of more than 30 Networking Academy courses and related tools. Most Cisco NetAcad courses focus on generic concepts, academic & technical skills and open standards. NetAcad courses aim at building skills, not just knowledge.

Presentation: Download English_NetAcad_Product_Catalog_July2020
French version: Download French_NetAcad_Product_Catalog_July2020

NetAcad Quality of assessments

Quality of assessments, secured activation feature, placement of new and existing assessments, and the current use of remote proctoring

CCNA v7

In the new Cisco NetAcad courses a lot of work has been done to increase the size of our item banks so that we are able to provide exam forms that vary the questions while still assessing the same key course concepts in a course. This minimizes item exposure and increases the confidence of student scores.

There is variation among the delivered forms to make students feel that they were working on entirely different forms from their classmates (i.e. to reduce cheating).

IT Essentials v7

In the ITE 7.0, certification checkpoint exams were added to assess knowledge from multiple chapters. 

ITEv7.0 also had multiple practice final, final and certification practice exams (one for Modules 1-9 and one for Modules 10-14) to align with the certifications.

 

 

 

 

Cisco NetAcad/ Nieuwe leeromgeving/ Invloed 2e examenzittijd/ ECTS-fiche

 

Alle NetAcad cursussen ondergaan momenteel een wijziging in de leeromgeving. De inhoud blijft echter meestal ongewijzigd.

 

De bestaande NetAcad cursussen kun je slechts tot 31 juli 2021 gebruiken. Cursussen die in september 2020 worden gecreëerd, vervallen ten laatste einde juli. Voor studenten die na 31 juli 2021 toegang nodig hebben, is het nodig een cursus met de new course experience te creëren.

 

=> Voor de hogescholen is het een goed idee om in de ECTS-fiche te schrijven dat de leeromgeving voor de tweede zittijd kan verschillen.  

 

Informatie over de nieuwe leeromgeving (new course experience):

URL: http://biasc.be/2020/08/netacad-new-course-experience.html

NetAcad New Course Experience

All Cisco Networking Academy are migrated to a new user experience. However, only the learning management system is changing; the course content, hands-on labs and exams remain the same. The plan is to migrate every NetAcad course to the new environment by End October 2020. 

ADVICE: If you are keen on using the new course experience, create the course when the actual course has been migrated.

The new experience courses provide a cleaner and more unified user experience. There are more possibilities for instructors to customize content. Also, there are better ways to prevent cheating during exams have been put in place.

Main elements of the new course experience tour

• Introduction to Navigation
• Adding and Editing Content
• Tours and Tooltips
• Marking Students Complete
• Hiding and Revealing Content
• Advanced Quiz Settings
• New Quiz Question Types
• Adding Custom Assignments
• Grading Assignments
• Taking the Pulse with Polls and Surveys
• Fostering Collaboration

Self-guided video tours: https://www.netacad.com/portal/content/self-guided-tour

Presentation: Download NetAcad New Course Experience

REMARK
Legacy experience courses end on 31 July 2021. There is no way to extend the course. You have to recreate a course if it needs to be used after 31 July 2021.

DevNet Associate Update

DevNet Associate Course

This course introduces the methodologies and tools of modern software development, applied to the IT and Network operations. It covers a 360 view of the domain including microservices, testing, containers and DevOps, as well as securely automating infrastructures with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Learning Component Highlights:
8 Modules with 6 Videos, 23 Hands-on Labs and 5 Cisco Packet Tracer Activities
8 Quizzes, 8 Module Exam, Practice Final Exam, Final Exam, Skills Based Assessment
Practice Exam for DEVASC Certification

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NetAcad Presentation: Download DevNet Associate Course

NetAcad possible learning outcomes

NetAcad awareness that different instructors value possible learning outcomes differently

For example, there are cognitive (planning, analyzing, thinking), affective (emotional, social), and kinesthetic (physical hands-on, movement in a networking space) aspects to designing, configuring, and troubleshooting networks.

Instructor Training Campaign 2020-2021

BiASC is involved as an Instructor Training Center in
this project during 2020-2021.

Are you a Cisco Networking Academy Instructor and looking to acquire you Instructor Accreditation for CCNA Routing & Switching, CCNA Cyber Ops, IoT Fundamentals, the new DevNet Associate course, or any of the other NetAcad courses?

Then register now for the free Instructor Training Program! 

• It is free
• It is remote
• It starts in September and runs until December 2020
• You are joining a community of like-minded educators
• There is limited availability, so make sure to confirm your spot

Register for your Instructor Training here

Networking Academy Overview for Educators

 

Many new Cisco Networking Academy courses and updated versions are arriving between now and the next academic year. The presentation Overview-networking-academy-for-educators gives you a description of the Cisco Networking Academy portfolio:

• Course Overview from beginner to expert
• Resources for teachers and instructors
• Resources for students
• Talent Bridge Program
• Jobs with employers around the world
• Support and marketing services
• Instructor Training

NetAcad Courses Requiring Instructor Accreditation

Cisco Networking Academy offers more than 30 interactive online courses from beginner to expert level. For some courses it is required that the teacher, trainer or instructors provides evidence that s/he understands the concepts and masters the necessary skills. Here is an update regarding the accreditation requirements. A formal industry certification is not required for Cisco Academy instructors.

Instructor-teaching qualifications vary depending on the course or courses selected. The courses listed below require accreditation or instructor training to ensure quality learning outcomes for your students. We also recommend completing the free online Academy Orientation course for helpful information in setting up courses and using the education platform, NetAcad.com. 

Belgian Cisco Academy Instructor on Video

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BiASC recognition by Cisco Networking Academy

BiASC is grateful having received a new recognition by Cisco Networking Academy.

 

Remote Teaching Best Practices -- Cisco NetAcad IPD WEEK

Nico Declerck and Yvan Rooseleer from BiASC organized a webinar about Remote Teaching Best Practices for Cisco NetAcad IPD Week on Thursday 30 April 2020.  The webinar started streaming at 14pm. There were about 150 attendees from all over the world, mainly Networking Academy instructors and coordinators. At the end of the presentation there were a lot of interesting questions from the audience. A video of the conference is available for NetAcad instructors and coordinators.

Twinning Remote Lab Challenge/ Europe North & Benelux

TWINNING PROJECT & COMPETITION

Let Cisco Academies students connect to live Cisco Hardware labs for real networking challenges
Make better use of existing hardware labs

The Twinning competition is a co-creation challenge for "Twin Cisco Academy Teams". The aim is to interconnect networking labs to be used remotely by students and instructors.

Twinning Competition Registration Form URL: https://forms.gle/2ZtmKL8KNjFEV4Fj6
Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HfiZU86qNp0dEH6cTg97LqExqQZTa_Eef1cSyQFeaus/edit?usp=sharing
Due to the pandemic we prefer to postpone the date of the event until everyone is going out of lockdown.
All registered teams will be informed in due time.

TWINNING REMOTE LAB CHALLENGE FOR CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMIES -- BASICS

CHALLENGE 

Design, develop, prototype and create a solution based on the Twinning concept for remote Cisco Academy labs.

Twin Academy Teams are briefed, trained, coached and followed up by NetAcad Coaches and Cisco Experts

Free Cisco Certification Vouchers 2020

BiASC is glad to offer a number of 100% Certification Vouchers to members.
How to get them? Fill in this form

ELIGIBILITY: Instructors completing the CCNAv7 BRIDGING COURSE, CCNAv7 PART 3 (ENSA) or CCNA CYBEROPS

INFORMATION NEEDED
NetAcad User ID
First Name
Last Name
Email Address
NetAcad Institution ID
Voucher Requested

 

Webex taking you one step further in online learning and teaching

At BiASC, PXL and HOWEST we have started experimenting with specific hardware to improve online teaching. Sensational!
Additional Webex Support: URL: https://www.netacad.com/learning-never-stops

Webex Teams and Webex Meetings are cloud applications that can be used with nearly all computer systems, portables, tablets and smartphones.

Using the extra devices that are available gives some extra touch that works very well in a professional education environment.

We believe that the video and sound quality should be nearly perfect, because we are distance education professionals.

Here is the complete list of available professional devices: URL: https://projectworkplace.cisco.com/en-us/devices

BiASC favours the Roomkit Plus

More pictures of Webex Devices
URL: https://projectworkplace.cisco.com/en-us/workspaces

Great workspaces to teach and collaborate online

Webex Free Remote Teaching

MESSAGE FROM CISCO TO ALL EDUCATION

Schools and higher education institutions are facing unprecedented needs to close their physical classrooms, due to circumstances resulting from COVID-19. We’re here to keep your classrooms connected via Cisco’s collaboration tools. In this way learning doesn’t have to stop.

Clicking the link below, you’ll find content to support teachers and institutions to teach remotely, student and parent guides, and resources for IT departments to rapidly plan, deploy, and onboard users for Cisco’s collaboration tool Webex Teams. Students can join a meeting with a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet or even a smartphone.

The Webex Teams offering is for free.

https://www.webex.com/webexremoteedu.html

For further Webex Teams support, contact the Cisco Collaboration lead in your country.

Contact: Michel Assink, massink@cisco.com, +3227785404

Related information:

• URL: https://www.netacad.com/learning-never-stops
• URL: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/webex-for-education.html

Webex for Education

Now is the time in which online education is more relevant than ever. NetAcad members from BiASC are entitled to use a full Webex admin account (up to a maximum number that we are able to provide). Equally, all other educational institutions can use a free full access account until the end of the current academic year.

URL: https://www.webex.com/webexremoteedu.html
Contact: Michel Assink, massink@cisco.com, +3227785404

Advise for Newcomers and Deep Dive Webinar

This page gives basic information for newcomers along with a video reference to a deep dive explanation of the major components of the Webex ecosystem. 

NetAcad instructors who have been using Webex for distance learning are attracted to this very useful collection of open standard communication and cloud collaboration tools. Webex Teams & Meetings offers all the possibilities that you get from other well known cloud applications. Only in Webex all the tools are integrated.

Participants can join a meeting with a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet or even a smartphone.

Open Standards and Integration
Webex is a combination of functionalities that you find in apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype, Zoom, Dropbox, Adobe Connect ... Moreover, Webex is offering a very intuitive screen sharing, annotation, chat and polling tool. The elegant whiteboard application allows instructors to explain design concepts with the use of visual representations. Meetings can be recorded and all the necessary files can be up- and downloaded. Webex facilitates integration with calendar applications Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Google Gmail. 

Start simple, step by step 
For group meetings and online classes we advise you to use the Webex Meetings tool with your students. This is the most simple for all participants. For small group or individual coaching we advise Webex Teams, in which students can also collaborate without a teacher.

Below is a Beginner's Guide in three languages:

• English: Download 2020-03-02_Webex_eschool_v1.0-eng(1)
• français: Telecharger 2020-03-02_Webex_eschool_v1.0-FR(1)
• Nederlands: Download 2020-03-12_Webex_eschool_v1.3-Dutch(1)
• Additional information on Cisco NetAcad - URL: https://www.netacad.com/learning-never-stops
• Related information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/webex-free-remote-teaching.html

A video has been created for you giving background information for professional and educational usage of Webex
We particularly advise to watch the part starting at time 16:24 until 45:54

 

CCENT NetAcad Instructors: Upgrade to Full CCNA

CCENT NetAcad Instructors who are accredited for the old CCNAv6 Part 1 & 2 get the opportunity to upgrade to full CCNA.

All Current NetAcad Instructors at the CCENT level can get to full CCNAv7 Accreditation:

• Take the Short Route via the Bridging Course for CCNAv7
• Complete the CCNA3 V7 Course (ENSA)

In order to register for this instructor training write an email to <yvan.rooseleer@biasc.be> and join in-person or online workshops or conferences.

During online workshops & conferences we will be using the WEBEX TEAMS environment. All teachers at educational institutions have a completely free access to the WEBEX TEAMS environment for six months, until after the summer. If you are interested contact <yvan.rooseleer@biasc.be>

More information about NetAcad Workshops and Conferences
URL: http://biasc.be/2019/12/biasc-activities-workshops-conference-spring-2020.html