How Can Technology Help Upgrade Skills?
Today, we launch a new jobs training program in Michigan that was cited by President Barack Obama. The program is designed to upgrade skills and create new job opportunities and will focus on broadband, network security and healthcare IT training. Press release on this news here.
Technology plays an ever important role in education and the classroom, but how can it be best utilized for job training and retraining? Visit Cisco WebEx’ PasstheBall.com and help us brainstorm some great ideas on how technology can help train workers or upgrade skills. Don’t have an idea? Rate or comment on ideas that are already there: http://passtheball.com/jobtraining.
Start an idea or rate an idea and we’ll make a donation to Teachers Without Borders.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 12:10PM PST
John Earnhardt Jul 15, 2009
Video of President Obama speech citing Cisco Networking Academy program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1QAcCVIvHs