Learn how and why to offer certification programs to your students that complement your curriculum. Certification programs in ICT (IC3), Microsoft Office (MOS), Microsoft Technologies (MTA), and other certification programs in Quickbooks, Adobe, and Autocad can be delivered in your classroom through Certiport, the leading provider in industry-based certifications and assessments.
Help your students: get college credit, gain meaningful employment, find relevance in their classes, improve their academics, and enhance their college applications by offering them industry certifications that align to your CTE programs.
Welcome to Satellite Creative. This presentation is aimed at giving you a small glimpse into our world. Who we are. What we do and who we do it for. Residing happily in the pretty market town of Tring servicing local and national clients, Satellite are 18 years young and full of excitement for all things creative. Whether its to run a strategic campaign, provide studio support, build a new shiny website or improve your online traffic, we can help. Make us part of your team.
Netadmin and Sysadmin Survey Results - UKSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of UK network and systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of these IT Pros’ roles and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace
A wide-ranging survey of US systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of the sysadmin role and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace in October 2013
Netadmin and Sysadmin Survey Results - AUSSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of Australian network and systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of these IT Pros’ roles and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace
Help your students: get college credit, gain meaningful employment, find relevance in their classes, improve their academics, and enhance their college applications by offering them industry certifications that align to your CTE programs.
Welcome to Satellite Creative. This presentation is aimed at giving you a small glimpse into our world. Who we are. What we do and who we do it for. Residing happily in the pretty market town of Tring servicing local and national clients, Satellite are 18 years young and full of excitement for all things creative. Whether its to run a strategic campaign, provide studio support, build a new shiny website or improve your online traffic, we can help. Make us part of your team.
Netadmin and Sysadmin Survey Results - UKSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of UK network and systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of these IT Pros’ roles and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace
A wide-ranging survey of US systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of the sysadmin role and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace in October 2013
Netadmin and Sysadmin Survey Results - AUSSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of Australian network and systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of these IT Pros’ roles and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace
Systems Administrators AUS Survey ResultsSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of Australia systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of the sysadmin role and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace in October 2013.
NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: DRIVING PERFORMANCE WITHIN A DESKLESS WORKFORCEHuman Capital Media
Retail associates. Forklift drivers. Food service employees. Plant workers. These deskless workers have one thing in common: They’ve all been underserved by L&D. Yet, these are the employees who are at the greatest risk for workplace injury, interact directly with your customers, own the manufacturing and distribution of your products and, ultimately, have the power to make or break your business—one decision at a time. Traditional approaches to learning and antiquated technology, combined with the complicated working conditions, have perpetuated the idea that it’s just too difficult and expensive to support these employees. But that’s no longer the case.
This webinar will:
Discuss the day-to-day performance reality of the deskless worker
Examine the modern learning principles and tactics necessary to support deskless workers
Review case studies that demonstrate how some of the world's largest and most successful companies are enabling their deskless workers
Reinvent Performance Management into a Leadership ProcessHuman Capital Media
You’ve heard all the buzz and stats: A majority of organizations want to improve their performance management system. Many are getting rid of their ratings. Most are struggling with leaders who can’t coach or give feedback. Almost all agree that performance management is broken.
Have you been tasked to review your system? Are you stuck trying to figure out your next best move? Join us for a one-hour webinar to gain insights and ideas on how to reinvent your approach to performance management:
Transform it from a HR process to a leadership process
Recognize common pitfalls
Consider the science of human motivation
Change the goal of performance management to improved performance
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING: DRIVE ROI AND UNLOCK PERFORMANCEHuman Capital Media
The future of corporate learning is adaptive. Behavioral and performance data can be used to optimize every single moment in a learning experience, delivering the most efficient and effective training possible. This webinar will provide learning and HR leaders with the framework for making an investment decision in the adaptive learning landscape. Participants will develop a pragmatic understanding of the technology and understand how to benchmark different platforms, calculate ROI, and sell their investment decision forward to other stakeholders.
In this webcast, learn how you can unlock performance and drive training ROI through adaptive learning technology. You’ll be able to:
Recognize key trends in technology that allow learning to become modular, data-driven, and adaptive
Grasp learning theories concerning focus, memory, metacognition, and engagement and how they can be used to unlock performance through adaptive technology
Explore how to leverage the benefits of adaptive technology to drive top-line growth and bottom-line results
EMBRACING DISRUPTION: HOW ONE MULTINATIONAL IS CHANGING ITS APPROACH TO LEARNINGHuman Capital Media
Digital disruption and flatter workplace organizations are changing employee expectations regarding corporate learning. Organizations must take advantage of the opportunities created by these changes and align existing organizational expertise to them in order to fulfill business objectives. In this session, we’ll take you with us on our journey from tactical learning solution providers to strategic business partners focused on driving company performance. We’ll discuss how Hewlett Packard Enterprise has embraced the consumerization of learning and how we’re changing both our infrastructure and culture to exceed employee expectations for learning and drive company performance.
Key takeaways will include:
An understanding of how one multinational is approaching significant disruptions and the consumerization of learning.
Practical suggestions for what’s worked and what hasn’t yet.
A roadmap for navigating the necessary transition from formal training provider to integrated talent and performance partner.
BUILDING A CULTURE OF IDENTITY PROTECTION FOR YOUR EMPLOYEESHuman Capital Media
Today’s future-forward organizations recognize the necessity to attract and retain employees, in part, by offering progressive benefit packages that reflect thoughtful, thorough measures to protect the safety and financial well-being of their employees.
One rapidly increasing area of concern is identity theft. As a result, industry analysts believe that identity theft protection is now among the most widely adopted benefit options and estimate that nearly 70% of employers will offer protection to their employees by 2018.
If a data breach exposed your employees’ personal information tomorrow, how would this impact your employees and your organization? It’s a frightening thought and an unfortunate reality of our digital world.
During this webinar, you will learn:
How Identity Theft Impacts Employees: Sixty percent of employees say stress decreases productivity. Understand the psychological and physical impact identity theft poses to your employees, and why protecting them makes good business sense.
How Identity Theft Impacts Your Organization: Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S., with a new victim every two seconds. Human Resources is often largely responsible for ensuring that sensitive employee information remains protected. It is imperative that you have the processes, tools, and resources in place to keep your employees’ personal information safe.
How You Can Protect What Matters Most: Anyone, anywhere is at risk. You need to know the latest fraud trends and security best practices so you can create a plan that outlines exactly what to do if your organization experiences a data breach, and so you can educate your employees about how they can best protect themselves.
Today it’s all about delivering an employee-centric work culture and increasingly, employers need to be concerned with protecting what matters most — your employees (and their families) on your frontline. No one can prevent identity theft, but you can take measures to protect your employees and, in return, your employees will thank you for building a culture of identity protection.
Systems Administrators UK Survey ResultsSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of UK systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of the sysadmin role and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace in October 2013
In 2012 York Consulting was commissioned by VCS Learning Solutions to evaluate their Turbo-charging Skills Programme, which led to the funding of a PG Cert. in Leadership and Management for the voluntary sector.
These slides are from York Consulting's presentation at the Leading Edge conference on the main findings from the evaluation.
Evolution and Trauma in Corporate e-Learning @ ICERI 2014 SevilleRosario Cação
Stories of companies that are dealing with bad experiences in their e-learning projects.
How they have been recovering from those traumas, and how those traumas are blocking their initiatives in e-learning.
How and Why to Offer Certs to Students (BPA NLC 2013)Dave Hansen
Delivered by Dave Watkins at the BPA NLC in Orlando in 2013, this presentation describes how to become an authorized testing center for Certiport, which enables schools to deliver industry-recognized certifications to their students as a co-curricular activity.
Integrating Industy Credentials into Your Academic Programs (Why Certify)Dave Hansen
In this presentation learn how integrating industry credentials into your academic programs will boost student engagement, improve student success, improve your program alignment to workforce readiness, and which industry credentials can be implemented into your programs of study. To learn more about these programs or to answer any of your questions, go to www.certiport.com This presentation was delivered during Business Professionals of America's NLC Conference in Orlando, Florida in May 2013
Finding Funds for Your CTE Program (Perkins, Writing Grants, Enhancing Educat...Dave Hansen
In this presentation, learn how to use Perkins, Enhancing Education Through Technology, and other funding sources to cover the costs of implementing industry certification programs at your school. We also provide some additional funding resources information, grant writing tips, and a high-level overview of a few industry certifications that align well with common primary and secondary education courses. We offer suggestions and a great resource for using Perkins funding to cover CTSO expenses.
How to find funding for your CTE program, how to avoid common funding faux pas, and how to leverage common funding sources such as Perkins, Tech prep, Grant writing recommendations, and finding alternate funding sources.
Making The Business Case For Online Employee TrainingBizLibrary
Whether you’re doing traditional employee training or have yet to jump into the world of employee training, the fact remains… something is holding you back from investing in online training in the first place.
Maybe you see online training as too expensive, too difficult to implement, too complicated, too difficult to measure… we get it, it looks like a big mountain to climb. But with the pace of change in the modern workplace accelerating faster than ever and the need to maintain a competitive advantage becoming a major factor in whether or not a business fails or succeeds, online employee training has never been more important.
Join us as CEO of BizLibrary, Dean Pichee, outlines why you should invest money in training in the first place and discusses how much to invest, how to determine ROI on what you invest, tips and tricks for getting the most out of your online training program and techniques for getting budget approval from leadership.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
Why you should invest money into an online training program and what the expected ROI should be
Find out how much you should be investing in training
How to get the max ROI out of your training investment
How to present training to your C-Level and get budget approval
How to Build a Business Case for Online Employee Training - Webinar 09.04.14BizLibrary
In this webinar we'll discuss 5 key elements to include in your business case for online employee training and development.
www.bizlibrary.com/webinars
5 Barrier to Effective Employee Training Programs and How to Crush Them | Web...BizLibrary
Even in organizations where training and development priorities are closely aligned with business goals there’s plenty of room for improvement.
So, the question is what barriers do we need to be overcome if training and development departments are to increase the value they add to workforce performance and productivity, and remain relevant?
In this webinar we'll outline the 5 barriers to effective training and development programs and best practices for overcoming those barriers.
1. Efficiency - leveraging technology
2. Status Quo - inertia and risk aversion.
3. Convenience - throwing training at the problem and hoping it works.
4. Training Mindset - moving from a focus on training to performance.
5. Manager Support - managers are the single most important factor in improving employee performance.
www.bizlibrary.com/webinars
Closing the Employee Skills Gap: A Framework for Future Success | Webinar 11....BizLibrary
According to the US Department of Labor July 2014 report, there are more than 9.7 million people seeking work that are unemployed. At the same time, US Bureau of Labor statistic reports there are 4.5 million unfilled job openings in the US economy.
Does a skills gap really exist in the American economy? Are there truly open jobs for which there are no qualified applicants or people to fill them? In this webinar we’ll discuss:
• Information and research about where organizations are struggling to find talent
• Practical advice, best practices, and tips to help find or nurture talent to fill both current and future skill gaps
• The business benefits of focusing on three critical areas: leadership skills, technical/professional skills, and IT/computer skills.
Systems Administrators AUS Survey ResultsSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of Australia systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of the sysadmin role and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace in October 2013.
NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: DRIVING PERFORMANCE WITHIN A DESKLESS WORKFORCEHuman Capital Media
Retail associates. Forklift drivers. Food service employees. Plant workers. These deskless workers have one thing in common: They’ve all been underserved by L&D. Yet, these are the employees who are at the greatest risk for workplace injury, interact directly with your customers, own the manufacturing and distribution of your products and, ultimately, have the power to make or break your business—one decision at a time. Traditional approaches to learning and antiquated technology, combined with the complicated working conditions, have perpetuated the idea that it’s just too difficult and expensive to support these employees. But that’s no longer the case.
This webinar will:
Discuss the day-to-day performance reality of the deskless worker
Examine the modern learning principles and tactics necessary to support deskless workers
Review case studies that demonstrate how some of the world's largest and most successful companies are enabling their deskless workers
Reinvent Performance Management into a Leadership ProcessHuman Capital Media
You’ve heard all the buzz and stats: A majority of organizations want to improve their performance management system. Many are getting rid of their ratings. Most are struggling with leaders who can’t coach or give feedback. Almost all agree that performance management is broken.
Have you been tasked to review your system? Are you stuck trying to figure out your next best move? Join us for a one-hour webinar to gain insights and ideas on how to reinvent your approach to performance management:
Transform it from a HR process to a leadership process
Recognize common pitfalls
Consider the science of human motivation
Change the goal of performance management to improved performance
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING: DRIVE ROI AND UNLOCK PERFORMANCEHuman Capital Media
The future of corporate learning is adaptive. Behavioral and performance data can be used to optimize every single moment in a learning experience, delivering the most efficient and effective training possible. This webinar will provide learning and HR leaders with the framework for making an investment decision in the adaptive learning landscape. Participants will develop a pragmatic understanding of the technology and understand how to benchmark different platforms, calculate ROI, and sell their investment decision forward to other stakeholders.
In this webcast, learn how you can unlock performance and drive training ROI through adaptive learning technology. You’ll be able to:
Recognize key trends in technology that allow learning to become modular, data-driven, and adaptive
Grasp learning theories concerning focus, memory, metacognition, and engagement and how they can be used to unlock performance through adaptive technology
Explore how to leverage the benefits of adaptive technology to drive top-line growth and bottom-line results
EMBRACING DISRUPTION: HOW ONE MULTINATIONAL IS CHANGING ITS APPROACH TO LEARNINGHuman Capital Media
Digital disruption and flatter workplace organizations are changing employee expectations regarding corporate learning. Organizations must take advantage of the opportunities created by these changes and align existing organizational expertise to them in order to fulfill business objectives. In this session, we’ll take you with us on our journey from tactical learning solution providers to strategic business partners focused on driving company performance. We’ll discuss how Hewlett Packard Enterprise has embraced the consumerization of learning and how we’re changing both our infrastructure and culture to exceed employee expectations for learning and drive company performance.
Key takeaways will include:
An understanding of how one multinational is approaching significant disruptions and the consumerization of learning.
Practical suggestions for what’s worked and what hasn’t yet.
A roadmap for navigating the necessary transition from formal training provider to integrated talent and performance partner.
BUILDING A CULTURE OF IDENTITY PROTECTION FOR YOUR EMPLOYEESHuman Capital Media
Today’s future-forward organizations recognize the necessity to attract and retain employees, in part, by offering progressive benefit packages that reflect thoughtful, thorough measures to protect the safety and financial well-being of their employees.
One rapidly increasing area of concern is identity theft. As a result, industry analysts believe that identity theft protection is now among the most widely adopted benefit options and estimate that nearly 70% of employers will offer protection to their employees by 2018.
If a data breach exposed your employees’ personal information tomorrow, how would this impact your employees and your organization? It’s a frightening thought and an unfortunate reality of our digital world.
During this webinar, you will learn:
How Identity Theft Impacts Employees: Sixty percent of employees say stress decreases productivity. Understand the psychological and physical impact identity theft poses to your employees, and why protecting them makes good business sense.
How Identity Theft Impacts Your Organization: Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S., with a new victim every two seconds. Human Resources is often largely responsible for ensuring that sensitive employee information remains protected. It is imperative that you have the processes, tools, and resources in place to keep your employees’ personal information safe.
How You Can Protect What Matters Most: Anyone, anywhere is at risk. You need to know the latest fraud trends and security best practices so you can create a plan that outlines exactly what to do if your organization experiences a data breach, and so you can educate your employees about how they can best protect themselves.
Today it’s all about delivering an employee-centric work culture and increasingly, employers need to be concerned with protecting what matters most — your employees (and their families) on your frontline. No one can prevent identity theft, but you can take measures to protect your employees and, in return, your employees will thank you for building a culture of identity protection.
Systems Administrators UK Survey ResultsSolarWinds
A wide-ranging survey of UK systems administrators that captures the rapidly evolving nature of the sysadmin role and their thoughts on life inside and outside of the workplace in October 2013
In 2012 York Consulting was commissioned by VCS Learning Solutions to evaluate their Turbo-charging Skills Programme, which led to the funding of a PG Cert. in Leadership and Management for the voluntary sector.
These slides are from York Consulting's presentation at the Leading Edge conference on the main findings from the evaluation.
Evolution and Trauma in Corporate e-Learning @ ICERI 2014 SevilleRosario Cação
Stories of companies that are dealing with bad experiences in their e-learning projects.
How they have been recovering from those traumas, and how those traumas are blocking their initiatives in e-learning.
How and Why to Offer Certs to Students (BPA NLC 2013)Dave Hansen
Delivered by Dave Watkins at the BPA NLC in Orlando in 2013, this presentation describes how to become an authorized testing center for Certiport, which enables schools to deliver industry-recognized certifications to their students as a co-curricular activity.
Integrating Industy Credentials into Your Academic Programs (Why Certify)Dave Hansen
In this presentation learn how integrating industry credentials into your academic programs will boost student engagement, improve student success, improve your program alignment to workforce readiness, and which industry credentials can be implemented into your programs of study. To learn more about these programs or to answer any of your questions, go to www.certiport.com This presentation was delivered during Business Professionals of America's NLC Conference in Orlando, Florida in May 2013
Finding Funds for Your CTE Program (Perkins, Writing Grants, Enhancing Educat...Dave Hansen
In this presentation, learn how to use Perkins, Enhancing Education Through Technology, and other funding sources to cover the costs of implementing industry certification programs at your school. We also provide some additional funding resources information, grant writing tips, and a high-level overview of a few industry certifications that align well with common primary and secondary education courses. We offer suggestions and a great resource for using Perkins funding to cover CTSO expenses.
How to find funding for your CTE program, how to avoid common funding faux pas, and how to leverage common funding sources such as Perkins, Tech prep, Grant writing recommendations, and finding alternate funding sources.
Making The Business Case For Online Employee TrainingBizLibrary
Whether you’re doing traditional employee training or have yet to jump into the world of employee training, the fact remains… something is holding you back from investing in online training in the first place.
Maybe you see online training as too expensive, too difficult to implement, too complicated, too difficult to measure… we get it, it looks like a big mountain to climb. But with the pace of change in the modern workplace accelerating faster than ever and the need to maintain a competitive advantage becoming a major factor in whether or not a business fails or succeeds, online employee training has never been more important.
Join us as CEO of BizLibrary, Dean Pichee, outlines why you should invest money in training in the first place and discusses how much to invest, how to determine ROI on what you invest, tips and tricks for getting the most out of your online training program and techniques for getting budget approval from leadership.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
Why you should invest money into an online training program and what the expected ROI should be
Find out how much you should be investing in training
How to get the max ROI out of your training investment
How to present training to your C-Level and get budget approval
How to Build a Business Case for Online Employee Training - Webinar 09.04.14BizLibrary
In this webinar we'll discuss 5 key elements to include in your business case for online employee training and development.
www.bizlibrary.com/webinars
5 Barrier to Effective Employee Training Programs and How to Crush Them | Web...BizLibrary
Even in organizations where training and development priorities are closely aligned with business goals there’s plenty of room for improvement.
So, the question is what barriers do we need to be overcome if training and development departments are to increase the value they add to workforce performance and productivity, and remain relevant?
In this webinar we'll outline the 5 barriers to effective training and development programs and best practices for overcoming those barriers.
1. Efficiency - leveraging technology
2. Status Quo - inertia and risk aversion.
3. Convenience - throwing training at the problem and hoping it works.
4. Training Mindset - moving from a focus on training to performance.
5. Manager Support - managers are the single most important factor in improving employee performance.
www.bizlibrary.com/webinars
Closing the Employee Skills Gap: A Framework for Future Success | Webinar 11....BizLibrary
According to the US Department of Labor July 2014 report, there are more than 9.7 million people seeking work that are unemployed. At the same time, US Bureau of Labor statistic reports there are 4.5 million unfilled job openings in the US economy.
Does a skills gap really exist in the American economy? Are there truly open jobs for which there are no qualified applicants or people to fill them? In this webinar we’ll discuss:
• Information and research about where organizations are struggling to find talent
• Practical advice, best practices, and tips to help find or nurture talent to fill both current and future skill gaps
• The business benefits of focusing on three critical areas: leadership skills, technical/professional skills, and IT/computer skills.
Analyzing the College Experience: The Power of Data in Higher Educationaccenture
By unleashing the power of analytics, institutions align resources, systems and strategy to use data to drive decisions related to key areas such as enrollment, student success and academic performance. Learn more: https://accntu.re/2JEY0wL
A skills-based approach to employment creates a more equitable job market for all. In this deck, learn how your organization can become a skills-based employer by posting positions that reflect the skills you need, selecting candidates based on their skills, and helping incumbent employees develop new skills.
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Digital badges are a rapidly growing worldwide online system that contains information about a person such as the knowledge and skills they achieved through formal or informal learning and who validated that learning. Once earned, digital badges can be added to a learner’s social media profile, like LinkedIn or Twitter. Then when someone clicks on the badge, they are provided detailed information on what it took to earn that badge. The presenters, who have decades of corporate and collegiate experience, will share with you the what, why and how of implementing digital badges in your organization.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
4. IMPROVED ACADEMICS - FLORIDA 09-10
Performance Indicator Non-CAPE CAPE, No Cert CAPE + Cert
Average GPA 2.56 2.6 3.0
Chronically Absent 17% 20% 11%
At Least One Disciplinary Action 21% 21% 11%
Dropout Rate 2% 1% 0%
12th Graders Earning Diploma 79% 88% 97%
At Least One Accelerated Course 22% 22% 33%
Bright Futures Eligible Seniors 28% 26% 44%
5. THE “TIPPING POINT”
> “The study identified a “tipping point” of at
least one year of college credit and a
credential as the threshold for…”
Earning better wages
Meeting workforce needs
Advancing/finishing post-secondary education
- Washington SBCTC – Research Report No. 08-1
http://www.sbctc.edu/college/education/resh_rpt_08_1_student_achieve
_basic_skills_003.pdf
7. THE TOP OF THE STACK
"Proportionally, more kids
have lost jobs in the past
few years than the entire
country lost in the Great
Depression."
- Andrew Sum in Time
Magazine
Jan 18, 2010
"Only one in four U.S.
teenagers held a job in
2011, the smallest
percentage in decades
and half what it was in
1999-2000.“
- Reuters News Report
January 24, 2012
10. EARN MORE MONEY
of people with post-secondary
licenses or certificates—credentials short of
an associate’s degree—earn more than the
average bachelor’s degree recipient.”
Pathways to Prosperity (Feb. 2011)
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2011/Pathways_to_Pr
osperity_Feb2011.pdf
11.
12. HOW DO
AFFECT EMPLOYABILITY?
Certified Certified Certified
Conversion
Placement
Wages
individuals individuals individuals
are earning are placed on are converting
12% more than assignment at to full-time
non-certified a higher rate employment
individuals than the 20% more often
in their industry than non-
assignments average certified
individuals
Over 2,600 certified individuals tracked and compared
to more than 43,000 non-certified individuals
13. IN THE WORKPLACE
Network World and SolarWinds Survey (November 2011)
- 700 IT Professionals
- Nearly 80% said Certification made a difference
Did a certification lead to any of the following? (Check all that apply.)
Other Benefit
A Promotion
An Increase in Salary or Bonus
A New Job
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
14. NHS UK CASE STUDY:
WORKFORCE
CERTIFICATION
BACKGROUND STAFF MANAGEMENT
AND TARGETS FEEDBACK FEEDBACK
800,000 technology users 91% increase in 577% ROI - “It not only
in a varied workforce productivity saves me time but also
ensures my data is accurate
Using MOS, practice tests, 95% learned features with less chance for errors”
training, and eLearning that will assist in job
functions 542% ROI - “It has had a big
Desire to increase overall
impact on my work and has
efficiency 97% now working faster saved a lot of time which
Need to find demonstrable 71% saving at least one means I can get more
and transferrable skills hour per week done.”
London, UK
15. WHY CERTIFY? - COLLEGE CREDIT
Students can receive college credit through:
16. WHY CERTIFY? – REPORTING/FEEDBACK
Keith Kelly of Northwestern
Michigan College
ADJUST PLAN
EVALUATE EXECUTE
33. SELECT THE RIGHT CURRICULUM
> Determine the appropriate medium for
learning
eLearning, Books, Blended Learning, ILT
> Review Procert Labs’ authorized curriculum
site http://courseware.procertlabs.com
34. SOME PUBLISHERS TO INVESTIGATE
> Publishers with certification-aligned
curriculum:
John Wiley & Sons (Wiley)
Cengage
CCI Learning
Pearson
Learnkey
McGraw-Hill
Microsoft Press
Cisco Press
35. PRACTICE TESTS PREP STUDENTS TO SUCCEED
> MeasureUp (Licensed per key)
Wide offering of IT and other certifications
Microsoft Certified Practice Test Provider
CompTIA CAQC Approved
Robust Reporting
> Certiprep (Licensed per student or per site)
MOS 07/10, Live-in-the-app practice tests
> Others: (Varied license models)
Gmetrix, Examforce, Transcender
> Beware Blacklisted Practice Tests
36. PRICING MODELS
> Cost to Register A Certiport Center = $0
> Per Student/Per Exam Costs
Voucher or Exam Inventory
Contact your Certiport Rep for Details
> Per Location Costs (Site License)
Campus or Lab License
Contact your Certiport Rep for Details
37. OTHER RESOURCES FOR YOU
> Certiport Customer Success Team
Helps you through the initial setup and
training process
> Certiport Regional Managers &
Partners
Help you with product, program, curriculum
questions
> Certiport Technical Support
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Why do your students drop out?70% drop out because of a lack of engagement/interest (US DOE Data)
Job boards represent a small portion of all available jobs in the market, but they can represent up to 15%. Look to these job boards for trends in in-demand skills. Look to the media, department of workforce services, economic development, etc., for other job trends and deficits.
Hiring managers know certified professionals help their organizations. In a recent study by leading employment agency Robert Half International, over 45,000 job applicants were studied. 2,600 of these individuals obtained the Microsoft Office certification. The results were staggering:* 12% earned more than their non-certified counterparts. * The study also showed that placement is higher with certification, with 47% of individuals reporting that their certification was a factor in improving their ability to find or keep a job, or get a promotion. A significantly higher percentage of the certified individuals got jobs in the first placeThe part-time individuals that were certified were converted to full time positions their companies, 20% more often than their non certified counterparts This study showed the value of a certification to employers. Increased pay and created better job opportunities.
The UK National Health Service is Europe's largest company and the 4th largest in the world. In 2010 the NHS launched a Microsoft Office Skills Training (MOST) program to increase NHS employee productivity when using Microsoft Office applications - Word, Excel PowerPoint, Outlook and Access. The program is proving popular with NHS staff, and since the program was launched there have been over 2000 exam completions. NHS offers the MOS certification to employees for free. David Levison, Senior Project Manager with the DH Informatics Team responsible for the delivery of the MOST program within the NHS, believes this skills training program will allow all NHS staff to get the “MOST‟ out of the software they use on a daily basis. A recent survey of over 100 learners from 40 different NHS organizations undertaken in September 2010 found that 100% would recommend the courses to colleagues and that 97% were now undertaking every day Microsoft Office tasks faster.
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The best, and most useful certifications map directly to key job roles, or skills that are in demand in the workforce today. The technical skills measured by certification take education one step further and applying it in real life situations. Certiport offers 8 certification pathways:The HP Accredited Technical Associate is our newest certification program. The program provides the industry’s first architect-level certification designed for academia. This program validates the required IT expertise for implementing end-to-end solutions.Microsoft Office Specialist is the official certification program for Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SharePoint, Outlook, and OneNote.Microsoft Technology Associate Certification is for students exploring academic or career options in technology, including developers, database administrators, and IT professionals.Adobe Certified Associate is the leading certification for validating entry-level digital communications skills for Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Photoshop and Premier Pro.Autodesk Certified User for AutoCAD and Inventor provides an entry-level certification in 2D and 3D design software.CompTIA Strata is a stepping-stone certification that measures knowledge of basic IT terminology and skills.Intuit QuickBooks Certified User is a capstone certification in accounting coursework.