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One of the most effective ways to teach students is to give them projects to solve real-life problems. Offer your students usable career skills by creating partnerships with local businesses. Mike Bruggerman, a teacher at Chico High School in Northern California, outlines how his students benefit through partnerships with local businesses. The students develop valuable skills by applying their education to solve real-world challenges these businesses face.
Sponsored By Stratasys
Refining your mission, telling a good story that meshes with funding goals and reaching out to the community spell success when schools seek grants to cover the costs of a 3D printer.
Sponsored By Stratasys
There's gold in your servers, cash in your cloud. Social Security numbers. Medical records. Addresses. Financial data.
And guess what? All that data is housed in outdated network infrastructure. That's more than an invitation. That's an eight-lane highway leading straight to your data.
Sponsored By Cisco Umbrella
Manage flexible, location-aware policies with Cisco Umbrella's 60 content categories and unlimited number of custom block or allow lists. Laptops can be assigned policies different internet access restrictions and logging settings based on whether they're on or off your network. Umbrella informs end users of the policy with branded, customizable block pages, and offers a feature that enables approved, delegated users to bypass these pages.
Sponsored By Cisco Umbrella
The cloud — at one point it was a revolution in the workplace. But the cloud is no longer a trend or a movement. It’s now so integrated into IT and infrastructures that, for many companies, it’s simply another part of the business. The availability of mobile devices and cloud services has redefined not only the way we work, but where we work.
Sponsored By Cisco Umbrella
Cyberattacks are evolving into an increasingly sophisticated for-profit business. Academic research, personal data, and disruption of operations provide attractive targets for both internet criminals and nation states. Colleges and universities must find ways to counter threats to these while maintaining a networking environment that fosters learning.
Sponsored By Cisco Umbrella
Ransomware and malware attacks have been capturing recent headlines. Local governments and organizations in Scotland, the United States, and Japan have reportedly been targeted, with at least one case resulting in a very public, high profile outage. These attacks are now reported to have spread across both public and private sector industries.
Sponsored By Cisco Umbrella
To push the cutting edge of education and the quest for knowledge, college and university libraries are embracing new forms of technology and learning spaces, including 3D printing.
Sponsored By Stratasys