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NDG Linux Essentials | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Course Overview

The Linux Essentials course, developed by Networking Academy partner NDG, teaches the fundamentals of the Linux operating system and command line and open source concepts.

The Linux virtual machine is embedded in the course; allowing students to experiment with Linux commands.

Benefits

Learn Linux OS, open source programming, and IoE skills to expand IT knowledge beyond networking. Aligns with the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Linux Essentials Professional Development Certificate.

Learning Components

• 16 chapters
• Built-in virtual machine to experiment with Linux commands
• 13 lab exercises
• Learner-directed activities
• Chapter exams, mid-term, and final exam

Features

Target Audience: Upper secondary and 2-year college students

Prerequisites: None

Languages: English

Course Delivery: Instructor -led or Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 70 hours

Recommended Next Course: CCNA R&S Introduction to Networks

CPA: Programming Essentials in C++ | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Course Overview

Prepares student to accomplish coding tasks related to the basics of programming in the C++ language and the fundamental notions and techniques used in object-oriented programming.

Benefits

Builds the skills you need for entry-level programming career opportunities and to succeed in jobs related to software development, network engineering and system administration. Aligns with CPA – C++ Certified Associate Programmer Certification

Learning Components

• Eight modules of interactive instructional content
• More than 100 practice labs
• Chapter and Final exams

Features

Target Audience: Upper secondary , 2-year and 4-year college students

Prerequisites: None

Languages: English

Course Delivery: Instructor-led

Estimated Time to Complete: 70 hours

Recommended Next Course: IoT Fundamentals, CCNA R&S, NDG Linux Essentials

Mobility Fundamentals Series | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Series Overview

Starting with Wireless Technology Standards, the Mobility Fundamentals series teaches students about wireless and mobility technologies in the Digital Transformation Age.

Topics covered in these instructor-developed courses include wireless LAN design and mobility applications.  Five Modules available

Benefits

Builds foundational wireless and mobility technology career skills for current IT Essentials or CCNA R&S students interested in expanding their skills.

Learning Components

• Several modules of multimedia content
• Video recordings featuring Networking Academy instructors
• Activities that reinforce learning, including Cisco Packet Tracer activities
• Assessments, including module quizzes
• Certificates of completion for each module

Features

Target Audience: Upper secondary, 2-year and 4-year college students

Prerequisites: None

Languages: English

Course Delivery: Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 1.5 hours each

Recommended Next Course: Complete the Mobility Fundamentals Series

Entrepreneurship | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

 

Series Overview

Entrepreneurship supplements the IT skills gained in CCNA R&S curriculum by teaching business and financial skills, behaviors, and attitudes, to help students develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

Students learn by completing a series of interactive case studies.

Benefits

Students seeking to supplement IT expertise with entrepreneurial thinking, business development, and financial management skills.

Learning Components

• 7 modules
• Modules feature interactive case studies and videos that reinforce business management skills
• Quizzes for each module
• Discussion board

Features

Target Audience: Secondary, 2-year and 4-year college students

Prerequisites: None, recommend CCNA R&S RSE for labs

Languages: Arabic, Chinese-T, Chinese-S, English, French, Italian, Portuguese-BR and Spanish

Course Delivery: Instructor -led or Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 15 hours

Complementary Course: Be Your Own Boss

Introduction to IoT | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Course Overview

The Introduction to IoT (Internet of Things) course introduces learners to the technologies that support IoT, and the career and social opportunities created by the growing number of networked connections between people, processes, data, and things.

Benefits

For students seeking an overview of trends, technologies, and career opportunities in the Internet of Things.

This course also serves as a foundation for CCNA-level courses.

Learning Components

• 5 modules of interactive content featuring IoT experts
• Activities, videos, and simulations to enhance the learning experience
• Pre-test, module quizzes, and a final exam

Features

Target Audience: General audience

Prerequisites: None

Languages: Arabic, Chinese-S, Chinese-T, English, French, German, Italian , Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-BR, Russian, Spanish

Course Delivery: Instructor -led or Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 20 hours

Recommended Next Course: IT Essentials or CCNA R&S Introduction to Networks

Introduction to Cybersecurity | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Course Overview

The Introduction to Cybersecurity course explores cyber trends, threats and staying safe in cyberspace, and protecting personal and company data. 

Benefits

Learn how to protect your personal data and privacy online and in social media, and why more and more IT jobs require cybersecurity awareness and understanding.

Learning Components

• 5 modules
• Interactive and instructional content
• 8 Activities and 7 lab exercises that reinforce learning
• 4 quizzes and 1 final exam
• Links to related resources

Features

Target Audience: Upper secondary and 2-Year college students, general audience

Prerequisites: None

Languages: Chinese-S, English

Course Delivery: Instructor -led or Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 15 hours

Recommended Next Course: Cybersecurity Essentials, releasing Fall 2016

Get Connected | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Course Overview

Get Connected students are introduced to the Internet and experiment with various social networking sites. Talking characters and devices make this course a user-friendly environment for an audience new to IT.

Benefits

Get Connected teaches basic communication and collaboration technologies, essential skills for career advancement in today’s global workforce.

Learning Components

• 5 chapters
• Illustrations and narrations guide students through topics
• Videos and activities
• Quizzes

Features

Target Audience: Secondary and general audience new to IT

Prerequisites: None

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese-BR, Spanish, Chinese-Simplified

Course Delivery: Instructor -led or Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 30 hours

Recommended Next Course: IT Essentials

Packet Tracer Know How Series | Networking Academy Course Updates 2016

Course Overview

The Packet Tracer Know How Series is designed for new users of Packet Tracer for self-study and familiarization with the tool used in many Networking Academy courses.  Packet Tracer courses are available for the desktop and for mobile. (Android and iOS).

Benefits

The Packet Tracer Know How Series introduces tips and best practices to help instructors and students use Cisco Packet Tracer as an effective and engaging learning and assessment tool.

Learning Components

• Files and demos
• Hands-on learning activity
• Video Recordings
• Quiz

Features

Target Audience: General audience

Prerequisites: None

Languages: English, French

Course Delivery: Instructor -led or Self-paced

Estimated Time to Complete: 1 hour

 

 

 

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

Pathway to become a Network Security Administrator | Course Progression

Below is a pathway through the various Cisco Networking Academy Courses if you want to become a Network Security Specialist

 

 

 

 

BiASC LAB DAY | Brussels | 4 November 2016

To register for the Lab Day, fill in the form below or click http://goo.gl/forms/3MznaSs5InzS3AYq2

Benelux Netacad Instructor Event | May 2016 | Presentations

  

PRESENTATIONS by Marc Khayat at the Benelux Netacad Instructor Event in May 2016. 

 New Networking Academy IT Essentials, CCNA and Supplemental Courses 

• Download NetAcad Development May 2016
• Download Supplemental Courses May 2016

Internet of Everything Labs

• Download IoE Workshop May 2016

PRESENTATIONS by Marco Verleun

• LPI Academy
• Docker
• Linux Certification

 

 

PRESENTATIONS by Yvan Rooseleer at the Benelux Netacad Instructor Event in May 2016

• Inside IoE Launchpad

The following presentation informs you about the Brussels IoE Challenge & Hackathon

• Download Ioe-hackathon-brussels-May-2016-v2-5

VMware IT Academy Information

• Download VMware IT Academy Program-May2016

Benelux Instructor Event 2016 | 128 instructors and 31 students

 Picture of organizers, presenters and BiASC board members

A message Arie Van Duijn, Program Manager Cisco CSR Benelux

Thank you all again for the fantastic work you did to make Benelux Instructor Event 2016 so successful. I specially thank Pierre De Fooz for hosting us and organizing the logistics with the venue and the evening party. Great job.

From the reactions of the audience during and after the event, I can conclude that it was very well received.

The combination of the event with the hackathons organized in Belgium and Netherlands was a winner. Everybody liked the student presentations and it brought the hackathon concept really in the picture.

My sincere thanks go to Marc Khayat and Leonard Janer for hosting the really successful IoE workshops (all 4 of them!).

I won´t exaggerate when I say this was the best Benelux Event in 17 Years.

I´ll end with some metrix: in total 128 professionals and 31 students attended the event during the two days, a number we have not reached before.

 

Benelux IoE Hackathon Final in Seraing

A well-balanced and multidisciplinary Brussels team, YSA, won the first Benelux Hackathon Final in Seraing. Six teams from Belgium and the Netherlands took part in this new competition.

The winning team from Brussels consists of Business and IT students. During the preparatory hackathon in Brussels based on Smart Shopping Center the team developed a Smart Shopping Cart. The winners will be invited to an international Cisco DevNet Hackathon in the coming months.

All participating student teams were well prepared making it a very exciting final. The team in second place comes from Thomas More Geel in Belgium.

How to Prepare to teach the new CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging content

In the week  of 30 May to 3 June the next Cisco Netacad Global Instructor Professional Development (IPD) Week will be focusing on the new content for the CCNA R&S Bridging course. 

• Program Updates – Overview of the new CCNA R&S 6.0 certification and Bridging course, new product releases and information on NetAcad Advantage.
• Technical Sessions – CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging course technical topics
• Switch Stacking and LAN Security
• Troubleshooting IPv6 ACLs
• VTP and DTP: from cradle to grave
• Understanding QoS using IPSLA as a Tool
• Network Testing and Troubleshooting
• CDP/LLDP & NTP
• Instructor Forums – Find out more about the new CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging course and how to import content into an existing CCNA R&S 5.X course.
• Localized sessions – We have expanded our offerings to include seven languages! Check out the sessions for Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish.

Please check out the Archives section of the Global IPD Week course.  There you will find additional materials and resources for the new CCNA R&S certification content.

We are once again including a Certificate of Attendance for participants and a sweepstakes.

To check out the agenda and register for sessions enroll now into our June Global IPD Week NetAcad Course at: https://1040239.netacad.com/enroll/AC8FJE. If you are already enrolled you can find the Global IPD Week June course on your Learn tab.

Cisco Engineer Incubator Program | Application process starts in May 2016

All talented Cisco CCNA Netacad students are invited to join a special incubator program to get a job at Cisco Systems

What is Cisco Engineer Incubator?

Special educational program designed by Cisco engineers and Cisco NetAcad Program to support employability of talented students and graduates interested in networking technologies and starting their career in IT.

Who is it for?

Students (preferably on their last year of studies) and graduates in engineering or CCNA-level knowledge of networking technologies, ready to learn and develop, who see themselves as professionals in IT industry in the future.

How does it work?

You will benefit from free CCNP course as well as advanced technology and soft skills seminars and webinars delivered by Cisco experts during our regular virtual and live office visits and meetings with Krakow Global Support Center team. Program period: November - April. Application process starts in May.

Change the way people work, live, play, and learn!

Whatever you do at Cisco - from mobility, cloud, security, and IT to software and consulting - your transformative ideas can propel innovation and fuel disruptive collaboration. Making what’s not yet thought possible a reality. Sound like you? Join us! Apply today: http://cs.co/Incubator16

 

PDF: Download Cisco Engineer Incubator Program

Packet Tracer Challenge - Prizes to win at the Cisco Talent Connection Event

All students attending the Cisco Talent Connection event have the option to join the Packet Tracer challenge.

The challenge will take place on 1 March at your own location, no need to travel.
 
There are 2 moments to join the PT challenge:

Time slot 1: Tuesday 1 March between 2 PM and 5 PM
Time slot 2: Tuesday 1 March between 6 PM and 9 PM
 
The challenge will take approx. 90 minutes to complete. You can work on the challenge from any location with your computer.

You need to have internet access and the latest version of Packet Tracer (6.0 or later) installed on your computer.
The scoring is performed automatically by Netacad. It is not possible to question the outcome.

Overview of Activities for BiASC Members 2016-2017

BiASC collaborates intensively with Cisco Networking Academy and sister academy support centers. Here is an overview of our main activities for the coming year:

• Talent Connection Event with job opportunities for Netacad students: 4 March 2016
• Competitions with prizes for student teams: IoE Challenge on 23-26 May 2016
• Benelux Networking Academy Conference on 26-27 May 2016
• Networking Academy Partner Summit in October 2016
• CiscoLive & Academy Day from 20 to 24 February 2017
• Access to Cisco Partner Network via BiASC
• Quarterly Instructor Professional Development Webinars in collaboration with the global Cisco Networking Academy partner network
• One free annual Networking Academy instructor accreditation per academy

Check the BiASC website regularly at www.biasc.be and join the BiASC Facebook group.

CiscoLive, Corning HQ & IoE Hackathon Berlin | FEB 2016

 

Around 25 participants from the Benelux attended CiscoLive and the IoE Hackathon in Berlin. During a visit to the EMEA headquarters of CORNING we learned the practicalities of the Corning Network IQ Elite Programme for educational institutions.

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