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By Michelle Peterson
| August 27, 2014
Sporting a backwards ballcap and a friendly smile, Robert Kosydar looks like your average 22-year-old, but check out his resume and you’ll see he’s advanced far beyond his status as a recent high school graduate. This government contracted server systems administrator earned — in just two short years — six CompTIA certifications.
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By Michelle Peterson
| August 27, 2014
About 20 ago, Robert Blanchard moved to Aspen for what he thought would be a temporary job —one that instead turned into a long and fulfilling IT career at a destination ski resort. In his decades-long career, he’s seen hundreds of changes in the way technology is used on the hill, from RFID ticketing to software-controlled snowmaking guns.
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By Michelle Peterson
| August 25, 2014
Jose Ventura learned about technology and electronics early on from his El Salvadorian father, a true master of circuits and electronics. Mesmerized by the blinking cursor on a yellow and black screen, Ventura began playing, tinkering, fixing and even breaking things — an IT hobby that turned into a career thanks to the help of triOS, the largest private career college in Ontario.
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By Michelle Peterson
| August 11, 2014
The global IT skills gap, Jamaica’s high unemployment rate and the country’s growing IT workforce are all variables to a problem UTech Jamaica IT instructor Elmarine Jimenez would like to help solve. An academic partnership with CompTIA is helping UTech Jamaica get certified and become part of the skills gap solution.
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By Lisa Fasold
| August 11, 2014
There are hundreds of thousands of IT jobs are open in America right now, but how do you find and hire the right people? A panel of IT and HR experts at CompTIA ChannelCon gave attendees a tutorial on how to find and pick their next hire.
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By Michelle Peterson
| August 11, 2014
The flipped classroom model is a hot topic among educators, said Dr. Deanne Cranford-Wesley, but moving all the reading outside of the classroom to maximize hands-on class time can prove to be a challenge. Hear what she and fellow instructor Gerald Kearns shared about their experience designing and implementing a flipped classroom model during their talk at CompTIA’s Academic Educator Conference.
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By Michelle Peterson
| August 11, 2014
In a presentation about the science of learning — and how it’s possible to trick the brain into learning and retaining information for longer than ever before — attendees of CompTIA’s Academy Educator Conference got an inside look at CertMaster, a new training tool that uses priming, spacing, analytics and engagement tools to help students learn.
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By Michelle Peterson
| August 11, 2014
Using intrinsic motivators like challenge, control, fantasy and curiosity, plus extrinsic motivators like cooperation, competition, recognition, teachers can nudge students toward being inspired to learn, rather than deterred, according to Mark Relf, the state program coordinator for Rasmussen College, speaking to educators and allies at CompTIA’s Academy Educator Conference in Phoenix. To gamify your classroom, try motivation, new versions of grading, achievement and badges.
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By CompTIA
| July 22, 2014
CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor-neutral skills certifications for the world’s information technology (IT) workforce, today introduced a new version of its CompTIA Security+ exam.
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By Michelle Peterson
| July 17, 2014
Dublin tech Andrew Murphy said after using CertMaster, he felt 100 percent ready to sit for his CompTIA A+ exams. “This way of learning was so much easier and much more enjoyable than reading a textbook … it certainly keeps you interested for much longer,” he said. Read more about his experience with CompTIA’s new neuroscience-based, adaptive learning tool.
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