Title: Convergence Technology Center Overview
1Convergence Technology Center Overview
- Dr. Ann Beheler, PI
- February 12, 2009
2Regional Convergence Technology Center
3Three Separate Colleges Dared to Form a
Collaboration
- 2.469 million over 4 years
- Awarded August 1, 2004
4New Partner UNTTarrant became a mentored
college
5Convergence Technology Bringing IT together
- the blending or integration of voice, video,
data, image into one flexible network - the bringing together of products and
capabilities of multiple vendors so that they
provide the services the customer wants
(interoperability) - Active in enterprise businesses and homes
6Convergence Technology Center Focus
- Curriculum
- Training faculty
- Case study/problem-based learning approach
- Convergence technology content
- Recruiting underserved faculty and students
- Dissemination including mentoring other college
in implementing Convergence Technician degrees
and certificates
7All Our Work Has Always Been Driven and Owned
by Regional Businesses
- Focus groups
- Quarterly Business Advisory Calls
- Skills Analysis updated yearly
- Needs analysis updated yearly
- Addresses two job opportunities
- Home Technology Integration
- Enterprise Network Support
- New and modified courses including
- Convergence -aligned with CompTIA
- Digital Home Technology Integration DHTI
- Voice over IP
- Enrollments up
- New Partner, University of North Texas
articulation to BA in IT
8We Heard You Last Year
- Efforts refocused on Green IT
- We branded the Convergence Technology Center
GREEN - Held first annual Green IT Summit
- Submitted a grant renewal proposal centered
around Green IT
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10Significant Pressures To Go Green
- Economic
- Social and environmental
- Technological
- Political
11We continued with the Mentored College Program
and scaled it
- Instead of keeping it people intensive
- Scaled it as a result of Synergy 08 conference
- First mentored college workshop held in December
along with VoIP training for partner and mentored
college faculty
12Orange Coast College
- Largest college of 3-college district Coastline
CC District - 25,000 students
- Costa Mesa, CA
13Orange Coast College Highlights
- Faculty received free professional development
- Validated job skills and mapped skills to
curriculum - New Convergence Certificate through Curriculum
Committee in 1 month using CTC resources - 101 students enrolled Fall 2007
- 129 students enrolled Spring 2008
- 189 students enrolled Spring 2009
- Plans to implement AS degree and achievement
certificate
14City College of San Francisco
- 106,000 Students
- 10 campuses
- NSF grant in Optics
15City College of San Francisco Highlights
- Validated skills and mapped skills to curriculum
- Revised several certificates and degree
- Implementing Intro to Converged Networks 2009
- New Digital HTI sequence of courses
- Recently awarded a Regional Center by NSF, MPICT
(Mid-Pacific ICT Center)
16Room for more colleges this year.
- More details on mentored colleges will be given
tomorrow by the mentored colleges themselves! - Prospects for handling large numbers of colleges
are favorable
17Professional Development
- Has retooled faculty, both community college and
high school - Working Connections IT Faculty Development
Institute will be held for the 8th year this year - 5-6 cutting edge tracks
- July 13-17
- Numerous other events including VoIP training in
December 2008
18Conscious Recruitment Continues
- In Fall, 2004, most people said Convergence?
Whats that? - With a variety of events, we have provided
awareness and MORE for thousands of faculty,
staff, students, parents, business people, and
community members in general - New challenge is explaining Green IT
19CTC Job Opportunity 1
- Home Technology Integrator
- Independent or working for a company
- Installs and integrates communications systems
and entertainment systems in the home, including - DSL,and Cable Modem
- Wireless access WITH security
- Home entertainment systems such as TIVO and
others - Home management systems
- Must have great communication skills
- Likely the new entry level IT job and cant be
off-shored!
20CTC Job Opportunity 2
- Enterprise Convergence Technician
- Works in a large enterprise, not necessarily IT
- Handles support for
- Voice (including old telephony and Voice over IP)
- Data (like regular computer networking)
- Video and Image
- Wired, wireless, different Qualities of Service
- Must have good communication skills
21Other related Job Opportunities?
- Programming for mobile devices?
- Handling the Smart grid?
- Others?
22Collaboration has taken time and commitment.but
it is paying off
- Bi-weekly leadership team meetings
- Joint Faculty Meetings
- Curriculum subteam meetings with faculty
- Quarterly Business Advisory Councils
- Minutes
- Communication, communication, communication
23Collaborative Involvement of Business and
External Experts
- Active Business involvement continues
- Heavy involvement with NCTT and other NSF ATE
centers
24Curriculum Built on Business Demand
- New Courses in prior years
- Convergence Technology
- Home Technology Integration HTI
- Voice over IP
- Convergence -aligned with CompTIA
- Digital Home Technology Integration DHTI
- This years focus is largely on Online and
Advanced VoIP
25The Grant Has Made Things Possible
- Free cutting-edge professional development for
faculty - Support for curriculum development and updating
that needed to be done anyway - Faculty jobs have been saved because enrollments
are now up - Each college received national recognition and
extra press because of our work
26This Years NVC Meeting
- Preliminary report from Pete Saflund, our
evaluator - Reports from each of the lead partner colleges
- Update on the Green IT Summit
- Student Presentations
- Details about Curriculum
- Recruitment details
27This Years NVC Meeting
- Dissemination activities
- Professional Development
- Mentoring testimonials
- Review of response to 2008 recommendations
- What else should we be doing?