The Flipped Classroom Debate: Achieving “Deep Learning” through Experiential Projects and Training
Program Chair - Cybersecurity at LDS Business College
Learn best practices from the success of Spencer DeGraw, an IT professional-turned-educator, who has turned a two-year college IT program with a few classes into a multi-faceted certification and employment engine using teaching methods like the flipped classroom model to get students high-paying, competitive jobs.
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IT Program Lead at Mountainland Technical College
Learn how Jed Patrick keeps his students engaged through interactive and creative learning methods while maintaining a strong focus on real-world application and employment.
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Marketing & Sales Development Manager at TestOut Corporation
Zach Steele
Implementation Manager at TestOut Corporation
Does making room for certification in your class seem unrealistic or too difficult to do? Learn from Dave Alexander and Zack Steele on tips for tailoring your class around certification and enlisting TestOut’s help to get you there. You’ll hear stories from both instructors and students about the impact certification has on their classes and on individual students’ lives and get ideas that you can take back to your classroom.
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Learn 5 Key Practices to Transform your Program into a Certification and Job-Ready Focused Dynasty
Professor, SkillsUSA Texas District Coordinator, & TIVA President
Receive training from Bart Taylor, a 20-year veteran instructor, on five key methods for ensuring success with certification and job-readiness among students while helping your school embrace an IT certification culture.
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Prototyping, Piloting, and Program Implementation
Computer Science & Cybersecurity Instructor at Central Gwinnett High School
Computer Science Instructor at Paul Duke STEM High School
Hear from April Pelfrey and Philip Peavey on how to effectively roll out a Cybersecurity Pathway in your Career & Technical Education (CTE) program.
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Getting Buy-In: Proven Ways to Build Excitement and Engagement around Certification, among Students and Faculty
IT Instructor at Cuyahoga Community College
Learn Professor Eugene Andres’ innovative methods for getting buy-in from his students, instructors, and administrators, to enhance your program, recruit students, get students certified and employed in the IT industry.
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The Definitive How-To Guide: Learn the steps to building a top-ranked online Computer Information Systems Degree
Computer Information Systems Instructor
Hear from 50+ year legend and veteran instructor Mary Beth Tarver as she presents a detailed process for building a large-scale and top-ranked online information systems degree.
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Creating a help-desk/repair shop at your school to get your students noticed and employed
Receive training from industry veteran and IT department head Trent Stokes from Bridgerland Technical College. He will train on a key method for ensuring successful student employment: creating a student-ran help desk.
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Improving the way you teach: Flips, flops and failures on my journey to creating a more engaging learning environment using TestOut
Learn from the experiments, failures, and successes of Brandon Grace as he’s implemented TestOut into his program over the last three years and discovered the best approaches for utilizing it while changing the way he teaches high school and college students.
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