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Group Know-How: Harnessing Communities of Practice
No full textThese presentation slides, provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), were part of a presentation by Mark Dempsey at the 2017 League of Innovations conference. These presentation slides cover best practices and key strategies behind the National CTC's robust IT faculty community of practice known as the "CCN" (Convergence College Network) and also provide general notes on cultivating a successful community of practice. Slide topics include the following: Who We Are, What is a CoP, Evolution of the CTC's Community, Convergence College Network, 10 Essentials for a Successful CoP, 5 Reasons for a Cop Failure, and more. This community of practice model can work in any discipline.Â
Lessons from the Professional Development Trenches: Successes, Challenges, and Everything in Between
No full textThis presentation slide deck, provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), highlights key strategies and best practices for successfully planning and delivering a professional development event. Communication, technical support, no-shows, hosting best practices, surveys, certificates, and lessons learned are highlighted. Mark Dempsey from the CTC at Collin College used these slides at the summer 2022 HI TEC conference in Utah for a workshop
Job Skills Standards Validation
No full textThese presentation slides are provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) and were part of a presentation by Dr. Ann Beheler and Mark Dempsey at the 2017 Summer Working Connections "Leadership Academy" track. These slides cover best practices and key strategies behind getting a business group (which the CTC calls the "BILT" - Business and Industry Leadership Team) to validate the job skills needed by an entry-level worker. The goal is to make sure curriculum aligns with workforce needs by mapping the validation list to program courses. This model works across all disciplines.&nbsp
Virtual Labs 101
No full textThis video from the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) explores CTC's virtual labs. In the video, Mark Dempsey describes the benefits and logistics associated with virtual labs for educators. Benefits include the flexibility of online learning, the ability to experiment in a sandbox environment, the opportunity to gain hands-on experiences, and more. Doug Moore and Ernie Friend from Florida State College also provide a demo of the virtual labs and advice for educators. The video recording runs 13:37 minutes in length
Understanding the KSA Worksheet
No full textThe National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) created this webinar to accompany the release of the updated 2020 list of KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities) that entry-level IT infrastructure workers need to know. The CTC's Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) convenes each May to update this list. This webinar was intended to help understand and use the KSA list to make sure IT program curriculum aligns with workforce needs. The KSA worksheet is available to view separately.Â
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
No full textThis 3-page document, published by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), summarizes a July 2021 meeting with CTC IT employers, the Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT), to discuss what students need to know about blockchain and cryptocurrency. This meeting was scheduled based on feedback from the larger May 2021 BILT meeting in which these topics were discussed. The meeting minutes cover an overview, the importance of mining, the state of cryptocurrency, and the impact this has on curriculum
Successful Scaling: Strategies to Expand the Capacity and Impact of Your Program
No full textThis presentation, provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), was part of a special webinar session at the 2020 High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HITEC ). The presentation explains best practices of scaling innovation using two different frameworks - one from Edutopia and one from Barclays UK. The presentation offers CTC case study examples to illustrate those best practices: the evolution of the Convergence College Network (CCN) community of practice and the expansion of the "BILT model" process that energizes educator/employer relationships. This webinar recording runs 32:20 minutes in length.Â
Developing a Culture of Employer Engagement
No full textThis presentation slide deck, provided by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) for the spring 2022 League of Innovations virtual conference, provides an overview of the Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) model, a process that energizes the relationship between educators and employers by placing industry in a co-leadership role to create more investment in a college program. The CTC's mission, BILT benefits, BILT best practices, and a case study from Lakeshore Technical College in Wisconsin are highlighted
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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