National Convergence Technology Center

国家融合技术中心(CTC)商业和行业领导团队(BILT)和麦肯锡公司发布的一份关于颠覆性技术的报告指出，由于自动化(通常与“云”相连)和物联网(IoT)的加速，信息技术和通信(IT)行业将在未来1-6年内经历全面的技术变革。这些变化将需要IT专业人员使用软件定义网络(SDN)和边缘计算(以允许更接近来源的数据进行分析)，因此需要他们具有一些编程技能。从全国社区大学毕业的入门级IT工作者的需求将持续存在，但行业将要求毕业生除了标准的基本IT技能外，还需要具有更高水平的基础设施技能和一些编程和网络安全知识和技能。CTC专注于领导全国努力，以确保学生准备好掌握最新的IT技能，以便在完成两年制学位后能够高度受雇。CTC将满足行业预期的广泛变化所需的课程需求，创建新的企业主导的地区影响力枢纽(R-Hub)以扩大传播和可持续性，创建和传播BILT编写的IT技能标准，并提供必要的产品和服务，以实施和支持社区和技术学院IT项目的计划变化，以促进毕业生的成功。反恐委员会建立了一个实践共同体，目前有57名社区学院和大学成员，每季度举行一次会议，积极参与中心的工作。CCN将扩大到增加高中和更多的大学，以支持2 2 2协议。CTC将与其他中心/项目合作，共享课程、多样性建设材料和其他产品。所有课程、实验室、培训和其他模式(如BILT模式、学生档案)将通过社交媒体和CTC和r-Hub机构的活动传播到全国的社区学院、高中和大学。

The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) and a report from McKinsey & Company on disruptive technologies note that the Information Technology and Communications (IT) industry will undergo sweeping technology changes over the next 1-6 years due to accelerated automation (often linked to "the cloud") and the Internet of Things (IoT). These changes will require IT professionals to work with Software Defined Networks (SDN) and edge computing (to allow data to be analyzed closer to the source), thus requiring them to have some programming skills. There will be on-going demand for entry-level IT workers graduating from community colleges nationally, but industry will require graduates with higher-level infrastructure skills and some programming and cybersecurity knowledge and skills in addition to standard foundational IT skills.The CTC focuses on leading national efforts to ensure that students are prepared with up-to-date IT skills to be highly employable upon completion of a two-year degree. CTC will address curricular needs required by extensive changes expected in the industry, create new business-led regional hubs (r-hubs) of influence to broaden dissemination and sustainability, create and disseminate IT skill standards authored by the BILT, and provide products and services required to implement and support programmatic changes in community and technical college IT programs to promote graduates' success. CTC has built a Community of Practice (CCN) that currently has 57 community college and university members that meet quarterly and participate actively in the work of the Center. The CCN will be expanded to add high schools and more universities to bolster support for 2+2+2 agreements. CTC will collaborate with other Centers/Projects to share curriculum, diversity-building materials and other products. All curriculum, labs, training, and other models (e.g. BILT model, student portfolios) will be disseminated via social media and through events at the CTC and r-hub institutions to community colleges, high schools, and universities nationally.