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Improving the Way People Learn with Extended Learning

Since the Covid Pandemic the world of education has quickly evolved into new ways of teaching and learning. All education has been challenged in terms of spaces, technology, tools, methods, human resources and skills.

Even in difficult circumstances many educators have shown examples that are improving education.

The XL Project funded by the European Commission intends to pick out the best ideas pointing at positive uses of technology to improve the way people learn.

Project Website: Hyperlink

Project Presentation

• Slides: Hyperlink
• Pictures of the presentation: Hyperlink

If you have questions or remarks, please get in touch by email with <[email protected]>

Workshop Ethical Hacking - 2 June 2017

The workshop Ethical Hacking & Capture The Flag that we organized in Gent on 2 June 2017 was indeed quite interactive.

All particpants were involved in a capture the flag competition dealing with various security concepts & problems:

• White Hat
• Websites & SQL Injection
• Public/Private Certificates
• Passwords
• Wireless Networks
• Scanning
• Rubber Ducky
• Steganography
• Metasploit
• Kali

All photos: https://goo.gl/photos/u57hJm1aKSo4jh367

Talent Connection Event - Cisco & Partners - 10 March 2017

 

The Talent Connection Event organized on 10 March by Cisco BeLux, ICT Integrators, Partners & BiASC was much appreciated. More than 100 students of the CCNA level and above attended a full day and got the opportunity to listen and talk to many top-level ICT business companies with exciting job offerings.

Pictures of the event: https://goo.gl/photos/jh2C42xNjeFknesa6

An impressive number of partners and ICT integrators presented their plans and job opportunities and talked 1-1 to interested students. As the result of recent economic upswings and and efficient organization the event was the best ever for visiting students. 

Here is the list of participating ICT companies: SIMAC,  DEVOTEAM, AUSY, SPOTIT, UPTIME GROUP, DIMENSION DATA, DESTINY, ORBID, CONXION, ECONOCOM, BT and FAST LANE.

 

Conducting an IoT Hackathon (Instructor Forum 9 March 2017)

Instructor Forum for EMEAR Region, 9 March 2017
Topic: Conducting an IoT Hackathon
Presentations and pictures compiled by Yvan Rooseleer @yroosel
This is a collection of documentation, presentations and pictures helping me to remember how to organize IoT Hackathons

Goal of a Hackathon

Engage students to learn IoT Technical and 21st Century Skills in a fun and meaningful way

Student Value
Recognize and understand the concepts and challenges of the transformational IoE society and economy
Gain hands-on experience with IoT and rapid prototyping 
Enhance your experience with IoT and embark on the paths to become “IoT specialists”
Gain “IoT generalists’” knowledge and “foundational” skills

Soft skills
Critical thinking and problem solving
Creativity: brainstorming and other ideation techniques
Collaboration
Communication: effectively present or pitch an idea

Terminology

• HACKATHON = 3 days + IT related + Prototyping + Pitching + PRIZE
• CREATHON = 1 day + Idea generation + Pitching + PRIZE
• STARTUP WEEKEND 3 days + Prototyping + Business Modelling + Pitching + PRIZE

Best Practices

• Students need to be well prepared (6-10 weeks) both in business modelling and in IoT technology, also in pitch training
• During a Hackathon students teams should be multidisciplinary (IT, Business, ...)
• Invite partner schools and students from other disciplines
• Max. 6 competition teams, but additional specialized service teams are possible
• Kickoff with an inspiring keynote
• The theme of the hackathon should be difficult enough; the topic of the hackathon has to be a real challenge for the participants
• Quality of rooms, furniture, network and equipment makes a big difference
• Role and variety of coaches is very important
• Number and variety of jury members is important
• Teachers and coaches need to be well prepared on how to coach for innovation and creativity
• The jury ideally consists of a mix of business companies, incubators and professionals from education

Evaluation Criteria

The evaluation criteria for the final presentation and demonstration during a Hackathon include:

• Quality of Hackathon Map
• Quality of the presentation   
• Quality of the prototype 
• Creativity and originality   
• Potential social impact of the solution 
• Business opportunity
• Group Dynamics

PRESENTATIONS ABOUT HACKATHONS 

-1- ABOUT THE MOST RECENT HACKATHON EVENT IN BRUSSELS
URL: http://biasc.be/2016/11/open-data-challenge-iot-hackathon-brussels-december-2016.htm
URL: http://honim.typepad.com/chroma/2016/12/report-with-pictures-smart-city-marketing-hackathon-odisee-1-2-dec-2016.html

-2- PREPARATION OF AN ACTUAL HACKATHON (6-10 weeks)
URL: http://honim.typepad.com/chroma/2016/11/how-to-prepare-for-the-open-data-challenge-iot-hackathon-brussels-december-2016.html

-3- EXPERIENCES FROM PREVIOUS HACKATHONS AND OTHER EVENTS IN BRUSSELS (STARTUP WEEKEND/ HACKATHON/ CREATHON)
URL: http://honim.typepad.com/files/story-iot-hackathons-benelux--v1-4.pdf
URL: http://biasc.be/2016/11/bring-iot-to-life-with-hackathons-experiences-best-practices.html 

JOEY, Netriders 2016 Winner from Belgium

JOEY, Netriders 2016 Winner from Belgium

After a month of bad sleep and sweaty palms in June 2016 I finally got my first place ticket to cisco HQ in San Jose, CA!
Luckily this was before president Trump so getting travel approval as a Belgian citizen was easy! :)

Our daily agenda of the week was completely filled up with a large range of activities.
We had meet and greets with higher ups in cisco even as high as Fran Katsoudas SVP and lots of the managers running several departments like netacad, corporate responsability.
There was a tour of compliance testing for several cisco hardware products.  These included noise output testing, heavy handling (shaking) testing, RF output... the works.

On tuesday we got to meet the technical managers who also served as our judges in the competition and they gave us an intro into IoT.
We had to work on a raspberry pi in combination with an Arduino uno board to see how sensors and actuators work. In the afternoon we had a big visit to the huge campus of Stanford
University and one of it's endless datacenter rooms housing nexus equipment and lots of fiber cabling.

The last day of our visit was a tourist tour of San Francisco.

What I took with me back home was a bunch of new friends, memories, LinkedIn contacts, better self-confidence, possible new opportunities and getting more comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

CiscoLive2017 Academy Day & OpenBerlin

  

About 40 delegates from Networking Academy Benelux took part in the CiscoLive2017 event in Berlin. Winners of the Benelux Smart City Marketing Hackathon were invited on stage to present their pitch.

On Wednesday 22 FEB we visited OpenBerlin Innovation Center where we were introduced to IoT projects from six different startups. Most striking were the demonstrations of drones as well as self-driving vehicles.

The Academy Day was on Thursday 23 FEB  and featured sessions about Netacad Content for Global Problem Solvers, Hackathon Pitches, Cisco Spark and DevNet Applications.

Exhibitors: Cisco, DevNet, VMware, Citrix, Netapp, Dell EMC, Orange, Corning, F5, Netscout, Netbrain, Vodafone, ...

->    More Pictures of Netacad Day and OpenBerlin: https://goo.gl/photos/JzGNqiwisQzySvHe7

21st Century Skills

IoE Hackathon Benelux Final | Photos | Seraing

Some pictures of the students pitching during the Benelux IoE Hackathon Final in Seraing.

                                   

Benelux Netacad Cooperation | Photos

We all like the cooperation of Cisco Networking Academies in the Benelux.  

                            

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.

Ideation & Modelling Practice | IoE Hackathon

In preparation of and during the IoE Hackathon students have practiced ideation & business modelling using loads of post-its. Via the link below you can see the students active during workshops and you see some results.

Photos URL: https://goo.gl/photos/Ycc4i6eJmwT4bPdR7

 

Making stuff with Raspberry Pi & Arduino Starter Kit | IoE Hackathon

If you want to run the Internet of Everything Course, you will want to practice using the Raspberry Pi & Arduino Starter Kit.

Clicking the link below you will find a series of photos of teachers and students experimenting with Raspberry Pi & Arduino Starter Kits, in preparation of the IoE Hackathon.

Pictures URL: https://goo.gl/photos/Km7fehVhgnPgxgVu7 

The description of the equipment used you can find here:
URL: http://biasc.be/2015/12/ioe-hackathon-prototyping-lab-kits.html

IoE Hackathon Brussels | Photo Report | Next Steps

The winning  team is on the top right. The second winning team is bottom under. The jury session is shown at the bottom right

The IoE Launchpad Pilot & Hackathon was organized in Brussels from 16 to 18 December 2015. Around 40 students took part. The winning team will be invited on stage at CiscoLive in Berlin on 18 February 2016.

All active BiASC members were invited to take part as experts, coaches or jury members to learn more about organizing IoE Hackathons. The idea is that institutions using the Internet of Everything online course should always run an IoE Hackathon. At the next Cisco Benelux Conference on 26 and 27 May 2016 participants will be informed about the IoE Offerings and Hackathons.

• Photos Day 2: https://goo.gl/photos/ZQcJb9Dvh6LNSxiq9
• Photos Day 3: https://goo.gl/photos/3MMqnfaUHKMsKAuj9
• Photos Day 1: https://goo.gl/photos/nG2B1am1Lh8JLwW28

Prototyping Lab Kits | IoE Hackathon

 

At the IoE Hackathon the Raspberry Pi & Arduino are being used during the prototyping sessions

• 10 units of RASPBERRY PI 2 MODEL B, STARTER KIT
• 10 units of ARDUINO STARTER KIT, WITH UNO BOARD (K000007)
• 400 jumper wires F/F (packs of 40)
• 400 jumper wires M/F (packs of 40)
• 400 jumper wires M/M (packs of 40)

Here are some pictures showing how the equipment is being used:

URL: http://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2015/12/making-stuff-with-raspberry-pi-arduino-starter-kit.html