National Convergence Technology Center

国家融合技术中心

• 批准号: 1205077
• 负责人: Ann Beheler
• 金额: $ 442.36万
• 依托单位: Collin County Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Convergence; Technology; Center

The National Center for Convergence Technology (CTC) builds upon its partnership with businesses and educational institutions in North Texas and the network of partner and mentored colleges developed as a regional center. The reach of the National Center is expanded to at least sixty community colleges nationwide by working through five partner colleges that mentor community colleges in their geographic region to implement high-demand convergence degree and certificate programs in the emerging technologies associated with the networking IT infrastructure, including mentoring feeder high school and four-year university programs in a 2+2+2 pathway. The regional Business Industry Leadership Team (BILT) is expanded nationally to provide job task analyses to guide the nationwide network of community colleges to prepare their students for high-wage, high-demand jobs in IT infrastructure including mobile networks, cloud computing, mobile device integration, storage and network virtualization, and video integration. These are all expansions of convergence technology: voice, video, image, and data over a secure network. The Center provides e-books and interactive on-line tools to support delivery of courses and professional development of faculty. The Center focuses on increasing the number of degree/ certificate completers ready to meet workforce needs and on implementing nationally-known best practices for recruiting, retaining, and graduating underserved students. A set of stackable certifications is created to expand career potential and allow for rapid reemployment. An evaluation measures the effectiveness of the Center in developing mentored colleges that implement courses and programs that provide regional business with workplace ready employment candidates that have content skills to meet the latest changes in the industry as well as employability skills that ensure effective workplace behavior. The evaluation also measures the effectiveness of the professional development of faculty and the content knowledge and employability skills of the students. The methodologies include gathering numbers data, interviews, and surveys of students, faculty and BILT members.

国家融合技术中心（CTC）建立在与德克萨斯州北部的企业和教育机构的合作伙伴关系以及作为区域中心开发的合作伙伴和指导学院网络的基础上。 国家中心的覆盖范围扩大到全国至少60所社区学院，通过五所合作伙伴学院指导其所在地理区域的社区学院，在与网络IT基础设施相关的新兴技术中实施高需求融合学位和证书课程，包括指导支线高中和四年制大学课程2+2+2途径。 区域商业行业领导团队（BILT）在全国范围内扩大，提供工作任务分析，以指导社区学院的全国网络，使学生为IT基础设施领域的高工资、高需求工作做好准备，包括移动的网络、云计算、移动终端集成、存储和网络虚拟化以及视频集成。这些都是融合技术的扩展：通过安全网络传输语音、视频、图像和数据。 该中心提供电子书籍和互动在线工具，以支持课程的交付和教师的专业发展。 该中心的重点是增加学位/证书完成者的数量，以满足劳动力的需求，并实施全国知名的最佳实践招聘，保留和毕业的服务不足的学生。 创建了一套可叠加的认证，以扩大职业潜力，并允许快速再就业。 一项评估措施的中心在开发辅导学院，实施课程和方案，提供区域业务与工作场所准备就业的候选人，有内容的技能，以满足行业的最新变化，以及就业能力的技能，确保有效的工作场所行为的有效性。 评估还衡量教师专业发展的有效性以及学生的内容知识和就业技能。 研究方法包括收集数据、访谈和对学生、教师和BILT成员的调查。