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EUROPE NORTH INSTRUCTOR TRAINING 2024-2025

NetAcad Instructor Training 2024-2025
Updated 1 October 2024

Become an Accredited NetAcad Instructor: Introductory & Accreditation Courses

Enrollment

To register for instructor training, click here: hyperlink

Several types of instructor courses are offered

• Introductory Courses for instructors about the learning platform, simulation tools and Python.
• Accreditation Courses & Equivalent: prepare to teach courses leading to industry-recognized certifications like CCST, Associate-level (CCNA, CyberOps, DevASC), or Professional-level (CCNP). Certification is independent of this training.
• It is necessary to enroll before 8 October 2024. We operate on a first-come, first-served basis, and in case of full groups, a waiting list will be created.

Planning

The sessions of semester one will start in October 2024. The sessions of the second semester will start in March 2025. Most core courses consist of a minimum of eight sessions. The planning of the instructor training you can find here: hyperlink

Overview of NetAcad Courses 2024-2025

Cisco Networking Academy offers a practical, high-quality curriculum designed to build essential IT skills and competencies for various professional roles.

With over 50 interactive courses, the NetAcad platform delivers hands-on experience and immediate feedback, covering a broad spectrum of subjects—from digital literacy and data science to more advanced IT topics. 

Most Recent Update

You will find the recent update published in Januay 2025 here: Download English_learning_portfolio_overview_-_jan_2025

Visual overview

A visual overview of all available courses on the NetAcad & SkillsForAll platforms you can find using the link below

• Visual Overview URL: Hyperlink

Instructor Training Europe North - Overview 2023-2024

Here is an overview of all the online instructor sessions, webinars and workshops that BiASC is providing in collaboration with Cisco Networking Academy & SkillsForAll.  The training is free of charge for NetAcad members.

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Contact <[email protected]> if you have questions.

CiscoLive 2024 voor Vlaamse instructors

Een gelegenheid om inspiratie op te doen en je netwerk te verzorgen. Belgische NetAcad docenten krijgen één dag gratis toegang tot CiscoLive op donderdag 8 februari 2024. Alle docenten die in een Cisco Academy zijn geregistreerd, hebben toegang tot de Networking Academy Day. Het is niet vereist een Cisco accreditatie te hebben. Het is wenselijk dat alle geïnteresseerde NetAcad docenten zich registreren via de deze hyperlink. Als je een toegangsticket hebt, is het zinvol jouw aanwezigheid voor de Networking Academy Day vast te leggen. Noteer in het commentaarveld dat je al een toegangsticket hebt.

CiscoLive 2024 pour enseignants belges

Une occasion de s'inspirer et de développer son réseau. Les enseignants belges de NetAcad recevront une journée d'accès gratuit à CiscoLive le jeudi 8 février 2024. Tous les enseignants inscrits dans une académie Cisco auront accès au Networking Academy Day. Il n'est pas nécessaire d'être accrédité par Cisco. La plupart des sessions NetAcad se dérouleront en néerlandais. Cependant, vous pouvez visiter CiscoLive gratuitement pendant une journée. Il est souhaitable que tous les instructeurs NetAcad intéressés s'inscrivent via cet hyperlien. Si vous disposez d'un billet d'entrée, il est judicieux d'enregistrer votre présence à la journée de l'Académie de mise en réseau. Veuillez indiquer dans la boîte de commentaires que vous disposez déjà d'un billet d'accès.

Cybersecurity and schools: why is it important to focus attention on cybersecurity at school?

Cybersecurity is a critical issue for educational institutions, including schools. In today's digital age, schools rely on technology and the internet for various administrative, educational, and communication purposes. Protecting sensitive information, ensuring student and staff safety, and maintaining the integrity of educational resources are essential aspects of cybersecurity in schools. 

SkillsForAll, CyberSecurity and IT Skills for non-IT students

As a future professional there is a lot of probability that you will need digital skills in order to communicate and carry out professional tasks. During the month of October 2023 there is a challenging competition "European Cybercup" for non-IT students about Cybersecurity an other essential digital and team skills.

Presentation URL: Hyperlink

The above presentation invites you to take part in the CyberCup Challenge and develop fundamental IT skills as a student within your school or as an individual. The main focus is on Cyber Security skills.

More information about the European CyberCup: Hyperlink

Europe North Instructor Training 2023-2024

For the seventh time, the Belgian IT Academy Association & Support Center is involved in the Europe North Instructor Training organized throughout the academic year 2023-2024. For all members the online training will be in the form of interactive webinars.

The first session of each track giving an overview and a planning is planned in the week of 30 October. After registration you will receive all the necessary details to join your training session. More than 500 participants from the Benelux, the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic states have been invited . It is important to enroll as soon as possible. The main input from the BiASC instructor trainers are the Cybersecurity tracks, the Networking tracks and the Infrastructure Automation tracks.

Individual Instructor Registration: hyperlink

Overview of the options

Liste des cours en ligne sur "SkillsForAll"

Depuis plus de 25 ans, la plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne Cisco Networking Academy propose divers cours et certifications en matière de réseaux, de cybersécurité, de programmation et d'autres compétences informatiques. L'année dernière, la nouvelle plateforme skillsforall.com a été lancée. Elle contient désormais des dizaines de cours, tant pour les débutants que pour les professionnels de l'informatique de niveau intermédiaire.

Dans cet article, vous trouverez un aperçu de l'ensemble de l'offre de Skillsforall. Cliquez sur le nom du cours pour plus d'informations. Inscrivez-vous en cliquant sur "Démarrer".

Si vous souhaitez travailler avec Skillsforall au sein d'une école ou d'un institut de formation, veuillez nous contacter.

Si vous êtes un enseignant qui débute avec la plateforme Skillsforall, vous pouvez créer une classe avec les mêmes fonctionnalités que celles auxquelles vous êtes habitué sur la plateforme netacad.com.

CyberSecurity at School: The Importance of Educating on Cyber Security of Digital Environments

Cybersecurity is a branch of IT security that includes the tools and technologies used to protect digital systems from external threats and attacks aimed at accessing, transforming, or destroying information, disrupting workflows within companies or institutions, etc.

While attention has recently begun to focus on these issues, especially by companies and public administrations, cybersecurity is still rarely addressed when it comes to digital in schools.

Cisco s'engage à former 25 millions de personnes à l'IT d'ici 2032

Ce mardi 23 mai, Armand Leblois, directeur Europe Cisco Networking Academy Europe, Julien Berton, formateur NetAcad, et Charlotte Epeti-Mpacko, étudiante NetAcad, se sont penchés sur le réseau de Cisco, le programme de formation de NetAcad et également les opportunités offertes par l'intelligence artificielle.

Accédez au site: lien

SECCON Security Community

The SECCON community focuses on knowledge sharing and collaboration in Cybersecurity

SECCON NL is a podium for experts to share insights into the security, privacy, trust, and resilience of networks, systems, services, and applications as well as novel ways for dealing with vulnerabilities and mitigating sophisticated cyber-attacks.

Launch event: September 22, 2022 from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM CET at Muntgebouw Utrecht

The event offers the community an interactive learning experience to build new relations, and create fresh energy to deal with the many challenges in the cyber security domain.

More information: Hyperlink

Instructor Professional Development: online now in September

This quarter's GIPD Week starts on 11 September.

 Here are English sessions that fall under normal Europe times:

• DevNet Sandbox – Monday, 11 Sept 17:00 CEST/15:00 UTC
• Program Updates Option 2 – Tuesday, 12 Sept 13:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Zone Based Firewall – Wednesday, 13 Sept 8:00 CEST/6:00 UTC
• Packet Tracer Physical – Wednesday, 13 Sept 12:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Editing and Creating Packet Tracer Activities – Wednesday, 13 Sept 19:00 CEST/17:00 UTC
• An Intro to IS-IS – Thursday, 14 Sept 12:00 CEST/10:00 UTC
• Instructor Forum EMEAR – Thursday, 14 Sept 14:00 CEST/12:00 UTC

Other live Technical Sessions:

• SDN Fundamentals Part 2
• Instructor’s Guide to Teaching Introductory Python

To register for sessions go to http://cs.co/GIPD18

There are also offer localized sessions in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Polish at comfortable times. 

All sessions are recorded and resources will be posted within 24 – 48 hours of the session.

Oracle Academy Pathways

In the PDF document below you will find relevant information about Oracle Academy:

• Workshops and Self-Study Offerings: Java, Databases
• Academic Curriculum & Training: Java, Databases, Application Development
• New curricula: Big Data Foundations, Cloud Computing Foundations
• Oracle Academy Pathways: benefits for Oracle Academy Members, Oracle Certifications

PDF

• Download Oracle Academy - Free Curriculum Training and Certification

CORNING FIBER EXPERIENCE

Together with our Corning Network IQ partners we are offering an essential Fiber Optics Installation Course. This is the same course as Corning offers to Fiber Optic Network Professionals.

Date: 28 June 2017
Location: Maak Haarlem, Oude Weg 95, 2031 CC Haarlem
Cost: 200 Euro (ex VAT)

Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/Z2gOfwb1hOYFYPUr1

 

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

Using Apache Spark 2.0 to Analyze the City of San Francisco's Open Data

Published on Youtube 13 July 2016

Sameer Farooqui from Databricks delivers a hands-on tutorial using Spark SQL and DataFrames to retrieve insights and visualizations from datasets published by the City of San Francisco.  The labs are targeted for an audience with some general programming or SQL query experience, but little to no experience with Spark. Sameer will begin with some brief theory and lecture on Spark, before diving into several demos performing visualizations and analysis on calls made to the San Francsico Fire Department on July 4th.

----Topics-----
00:00:06 - Workshop Intro & Environment Setup
00:13:06 - Brief Intro to Spark
00:17:32 - Analysis Overview: SF Fire Department Calls for Service
00:23:22 - Analysis with PySpark DataFrames API
00:29:32 - Doing Date/Time Analysis
00:47:53 - Memory, Caching and Writing to Parquet
01:00:40 - SQL Queries
01:21:11 - Convert a Spark DataFrame to a Pandas DataFrame
-----Q & A-----
01:24:43 - Spark DataFrames vs. SQL: Pros and Cons?
01:26:57 - Workflow for Chaining Databricks notebooks into Pipeline?
01:30:27 - Is Spark 2.0 ready to use in production?

 

Follow Along:
+ Databricks Community Edition: https://databricks.com/try
+ Labs: https://bit.ly/sfopenlabs
+ Learning Material: https://bit.ly/sfopenreadalong

 

Global IPD Week May 2017

Throughout this week from 8 to 12 May 2017 there wil be 10 interesting webinars  for Cisco Networking Academies.
You can register for these sessions by going to https://1040239.netacad.com/courses/395402/pages/english#technical

To enroll in the Global IPD Week course and register for sessions go to: http://cs.co/GIPD17

Already enrolled?
-1- enter the course under I'm Learning
-2- register for the live sessions you want to join

List of Technical Sessions
SDN Fundamentals Part 1
Learn how to use DevNet
LoRaWAN – the go-to technology for Low Power Sensors
IoT Fundamentals prepares students for the Digital transformation
IoT Fundamentals: Connecting Things course introduction
IoT Fundamentals: Big Data and Analytics course introduction

ETHICAL HACKING EXPERIENCE - Gent - 2 juni 2017

Hacking is een veelkoppig monster met tentakels in alle subdomeinen van ICT. Tijdens deze workshop simuleren we een aantal mogelijke aanvalsvectoren die tegenwoordig courant gebruikt worden om computersystemen te compromitteren. Hands-on gaan deelnemers de acties van hackers simuleren om vanuit het perspectief van de aanvaller de problematiek te leren kennen. Uiteraard komen daarbij de mogelijke tegenmaatregelen uitgebreid aan bod.
REGISTRATIE: https://goo.gl/forms/uVIVjFfeDLuLuEeX2
EEN GRATIS PLAATS VOOR DE EERSTE DOCENT DIE BOEKT OP 1 JUNI 2017

Voorwaarden

We verwachten van deelnemers dat ze minstens over een basiskennis netwerken beschikken.

Het maximum aantal deelnemers is 18

Datum en uur

We beginnen op 2 juni om 9u, en stoppen om 17u.

Instructors

• Alexander De Smet
• Roel Van Steenberghe

Locatie

Technologiecampus Gent
Gebroeders de Smetstraat 1, 9000 Gent

Inhoud

Actuele threats met demonstraties voorbeelden
Capture the flag (hacking challenge). Alle deelnemers krijgen een score van de challenges die opgelost werden.

Topics

- Password cracking
- Rubber Ducky/ USB-hacking
- Sniffing
- OWASP Top 10

Prijs en registratie

De prijs per deelnemer bedraagt 100 euro (BTW in) voor Netacad Leden. Niet-leden: 200 euro
Drankjes en broodjes inbegrepen.
REGISTRATIE: https://goo.gl/forms/uVIVjFfeDLuLuEeX2

 

Uitnodiging – Brussels Smart City for Education - 8 maart 2017

Online Registratie: http://brussels.us15.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=648efecb575b5dc55e915edfc&id=e82965973d&e=f0c25fd676

 

Bericht van Bianca Debaets, Staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering

Geachte mevrouw, geachte heer,

Graag nodig ik u uit voor het event “Brussels Smart City for Education: leren en kennis delen in het digitale tijdperk”, dat past in een reeks evenementen geïnitieerd door het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest rond het project Brussels Smart City.