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This compilation video clip, produced by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), features six IT professionals answering the same question: What skills or practices would get someone hired? The purpose of this video was to provide faculty with first-person perspectives of IT professionals...

This compilation video clip, produced by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), features six IT professionals answering the same question: What was your first job in IT? The purpose of this video was to provide faculty with first-person perspectives of IT professionals that could be used...

This paper, from the Midwest Center for Information Technology (MCIT), outlines advice for success in leading large-scale collaborative projects in information technology education. The advice offered pertains to faculty development, community college curriculum, women in IT, course articulation,...

These two posters, one from 2019 and one from 2022, were used to raise awareness of the IT Skill Standards (ITSS) 2020 and Beyond project and to recruit IT industry employer subject matter experts (SMEs) and educators. The ITSS project aimed to develop skill standards through meetings with SMEs in...

This flowchart graphic is from the IT Skill Standards 2020 and Beyond project. The flowchart explains the project steps, from identifying the most in-demand job clusters, to verifying the entry-level job skills and other skill standard products, to disseminating the outcomes to educators and...

This handout was developed by the IT Skill Standards (ITSS) 2020 and Beyond project to provide a quick reference guide to the ITSS process, a modification of the BILT (Business and Industry Leadership Team) process. The BILT process aims to align curriculum with workforce needs through frequent...

These resources include an informational brochure and a video created by the Information Technology Skill Standards, 2020 and Beyond project. The brochure was created to raise overall awareness about the project, promote the skill standard products, and extend an invitation to an overview webinar....

Collection Description: This collection contains presentation slides and an action plan from the three-day April 2024 ITSS Summit hosted by the IT Skill Standards (ITSS) 2020 and Beyond NSF (National Science Foundation) project grant as a part of its six ITSS Summit workshops. The Summits were...

This 32-page report, published by Collin College, provides an overview of the ITSS Skill Standards 2020 and Beyond (ITSS) grant project, including project outcomes and impacts on educational institutions and employers. ITSS aimed to provide comprehensive skill standard content to better align...

This 172-page resource was developed as a reference guide for the IT Skill Standards 2020 and Beyond project grant, explaining in step-by-step detail how to collaborate with employers to develop future-facing technical skill standards and then use that work to align curriculum to workforce needs....