That’s a Wrap! Summer Working Connections
NITIC recently celebrated the successful completion of its first-ever Summer Working Connections professional training event for IT faculty at community colleges and four-year universities. For two weeks (in person at Collin College in Texas July 15-19 and online July 22-26), NITIC filled 197 seats across eleven different five-day tracks focusing on in-demand, cutting-edge IT topics. These attendees came from 110 schools across 32 states.
“What’s most unique about Working Connections is the relationships I see develop between instructors from different parts of the country,” said Program Lead Mark Dempsey. “They’re teaching the same classes and facing the same sorts of challenges. Without this event, I don’t see how those collaborations would ever happen.”
Immediate classroom impact is the goal of Working Connections. Faculty attendees will share what they learned with their students in the next 12 months by adding a module to an existing course or developing a new course. Topics last month included, among others, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics, operations technology, and Python.
NITIC’s Working Connections training builds on the successful series of Working Connections events hosted at Collin College in Frisco, Texas for over twenty years by the Convergence Technology Center. Like NITIC, the CTC was funded by Advanced Technological Education grants from the National Science Foundation.