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| Recent Courseware White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet |
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| Students at a Leading Internationally Accredited Business School Gain Added Value From a Wireless-Enabled Learning Environment |
(Fri, 01 Aug 2008)
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| UCD Quinn School of Business, is Ireland's leading under-graduate business school and one of the top business schools in Europe. UCD wanted a single preferred vendor to supply students with notebooks for technology enabled business courses that delivered advanced levels of performance and represented IT technology as used by today's leading corporations. After a thorough review of leading notebook suppliers, the school chose Dell, whose robust notebooks offer mobility without compromising on performance. They deliver improved collaboration and communication through e-mail, web browsing, and the latest e-learning applications. |
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| Giving Back Is in Our DNA: Improving Education for Sustainable Communities |
(Mon, 07 Jan 2008)
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| Cisco is committed to making a long-term positive impact on people and communities around the world by giving back, leveraging innovative technology and demonstrating responsible business practices. |
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| Training Teachers Across a Diversity of Contexts: An Analysis of International Evaluation Data on the Intel Teach Essentials Course, 2006 |
(Tue, 13 Nov 2007)
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| The Intel Education Initiative seeks to form a trusted partnership with ministries of education in countries across the world to support educational reform by integrating technology into project-based learning environments. As part of the partnership, Intel also offers a portfolio of teacher professional development programs. The Intel Education Initiative has consistently invested in the evaluation of the Essentials Course worldwide, both to inform the continuous improvement of the program and its implementation model, and to document and demonstrate the impact of the program on its teacher participants. This report on the global evaluation of the Essentials Course draws on data from both quantitative evaluations done in many countries and qualitative reports that are often part of the local evaluation. |
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| Escape From the Computer Lab: Education in Mobile Wireless Networks |
(Tue, 31 Jul 2007)
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| As mobile wireless network technology becomes widespread, the importance of education about this new form of communication is becoming critical. One of the benefits of mobile computing education is that courses focusing on this topic can leverage advances in wireless technology to support novel education and learning paradigms. In particular, the development of wireless communication, together with portable devices, allows the freedom of both mobility and creativity in curriculum and assignments. This paper describes two recently designed mobile computing courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on the methodologies for incorporating handheld computing devices into the course assignments. |
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| Educating an Innovative Services Science Workforce |
(Wed, 18 Jul 2007)
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| In examining the growth of the services industries, the current state of education and the identified educational needs, there is a need for curriculum and programs that address the problems, challenges, and issues of developing and deploying a workforce capable of innovating and providing leadership for the evolving services economy. Carnegie Mellon University has taken leadership steps by inaugurating the first program to address these needs in the U.S. This program is offered as a Service Management concentration in the graduate Information Systems programs. Students in this concentration are currently completing coursework in IT program management, negotiations, contracts, service management, sourcing management, and process and capability improvement. |
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| Reusability 2.0: The Key to Publishing Learning |
(Thu, 12 Jul 2007)
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| What would a person do if he or she had to develop and deliver personalized training to 900,000 employees, located in 34,000 different locations globally with a complex set of variables that changes training on a location-by-location basis? The key is reusability 2.0. While technology-delivered training has become mainstream in many organizations, most are still not fully leveraging the power of reusable learning content to meet their instructional needs. One of the main reasons is that most learning technologies are designed to create content for a specific learning purpose (i.e. e-learning). |
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| Developing a More Effective Course to Deliver CIS Education |
(Tue, 26 Jun 2007)
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| Students' engagement in learning has consistently been linked to their retention rates in the Management Information Systems (MIS) program, their academic success, and interest in the MIS major. Increasing student engagement was seen as vital to increasing enrolment in the MIS major, which began a rapid decline in 2001. One of the steps taken to curb this was to make changes to the curriculum, some in its programming constituent. This paper describes changes made in the programming courses with respect to teaching development of interactive web pages instead of windows applications while using the same Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The paper discusses the rationale for the change, the challenges the authors faced, and the results of this transformation. |
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| PCs with Intel® vPro Technology Keep Maintenance Tasks in the Background and Classroom Learning in the Foreground |
(Mon, 23 Apr 2007)
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| The benefits of technology in the classroom are well established. PCs improve the learning experience by delivering more effective tools for both students and teachers. But managing desktop PCs in educational settings is a real challenge, and schools today have a pressing need to:
Maximize the reach of their technology funding
Reduce classroom disruptions and computer downtime
Improve desktop security
Download this Intel Solution Brief to find out how PCs with Intel® vPro technology can help your school accomplish all this and more.
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| CCNA Curriculum No Barrier to Motivated Blind Student |
(Thu, 12 Apr 2007)
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| Tony McCloskey did something rather unusual, even though he already had a degree in electrical engineering; he enrolled in the Cisco Networking Academy Program and obtained his Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. For Tony, who was born blind, the lab-oriented nature of the Cisco classes might have posed an insuperable barrier. But he's used to tackling challenges head-on. Using JAWS screen-reading software from Freedom Scientific, complemented by a text-based terminal emulator, he was able to take full advantage of the Academy course material. And when some of the online delivery mechanisms - notably the "Flash" video clips and animated diagrams - proved too much for the JAWS software, Cisco provided Word files so Tony could access all the information. |
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| Best Practices for Faculty using MindManager in the Education Environment |
(Mon, 02 Oct 2006)
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| This 30-minute webinar focuses on best practices for faculty members on using MindManager within the education environment. Learn more about using the mapping method to visualize information, develop ideas, enhance learning and increase productivity.
NOTE: This webinar may require downloading the Webex player to view it.
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| Haskayne School of Business Provides New Learning Opportunities for Students |
(Thu, 07 Sep 2006)
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| The Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary has a Bachelor of Commerce program that includes one required course in Management Information Systems (MIS). A main objective for the required MIS course is to show students how IT can be applied successfully in various business environments. After using a trial version of Microsoft MapPoint 2002, instructors recognized the potential of MapPoint 2002 as a new learning tool to introduce the students to analysis of geographic data. As part of this MIS course, students partnered with Calgary businesses to determine a management challenge that might benefit from using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
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| BYU Accounting Students Get Real-World Experience With SAS Activity-Based Management |
(Thu, 06 Jul 2006)
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| Brigham Young University (BYU), located in Provo, Utah, is home to one of the nation's top five accounting programs, and its graduates frequently go to work for - and have become leaders of - accounting's "Big Four": Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Ernst & Young. One of the reasons that BYU has one of the best accounting programs in the United States is that it offers students hands-on access to the most cutting-edge technologies and solutions used in the business world. And when those students join those firms, they take with them full knowledge and comprehension of Activity-Based Costing (ABC), thanks in part to SAS Activity-Based Management software. |
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| SumTotal System Case Study: PerforMax3 |
(Thu, 29 Jun 2006)
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| The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards mandates that healthcare providers employ a systematic approach to education for the caregiver. Healthcare providers need a cost-effective solution to deliver and track compliance training. PerforMax3 provides a suite of products that meets the specific needs of the healthcare industry. The solution combines highly interactive and engaging training content, developed in ToolBook instructor by PerforMax3 with built-in capability to modify content and author new training using the ToolBook Assistant platform. |
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| BOC Group Case Study: Creating Cost Effective E-Learning |
(Thu, 22 Jun 2006)
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| Global gases giant BOC Group has been using e-learning for about eight years, mainly to give sales staff the technical product knowledge they need to understand their customers' requirements. Until a few years ago, it had used a specialist consultancy to create bespoke courses that included plenty of video, Flash and other specialist techniques. These courses looked great but took a long time to produce and were very costly. That was fine for training in areas of the business that didn't alter much, but not cost effective for more short-term training goals. |
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| Breaking Myths, Changing Education - Mariemont High Wins the Blue Ribbon Award, Again! |
(Thu, 22 Jun 2006)
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| Located in a while collar school district in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mariemont High School has a reputation for leading its students to the doorsteps of top post-secondary institutions. The school received its third Blue Ribbon award in the school year 2001-2002, giving it the distinction of being the only high school in Ohio to have won the award three times. The award is presented to successful high schools that are considered national models. The site visitation committee applauded the sound implementation of the Cisco Networking Academy Program and the associated sponsored curricula, which allowed the school to stand out among other outstanding high schools in the state. |
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