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      Financially hobbled for life: The elite master’s degrees that don’t pay off

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      @pete-s said in Financially hobbled for life: The elite master’s degrees that don’t pay off:

      Well, the students didn't have spreadsheets on their mind when they decided to go for life crushing debt...

      LOL, right. Why would they do that!

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      How Your Education Influences How Your Perceive Your Current Position SAMIT Video

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      How Your Education Affects Your Career Perception

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      The Home Lab of Business SAMIT Video

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      The University Education Decision Factor SAMIT Video

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      Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly

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      @tim_g said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

      @scottalanmiller said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

      @worden2 said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

      @irj said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

      @worden2 So this is one of those get certified while getting a degree schools like WGU?

      Yes and no. I don't think my college is going to start employing "course facilitators" instead of professors, and simply point students to the material and expect them to grind through it. On the other hand, as a 2 year college we're not diving too deep into theory and abstracted concepts because of the time scale we're at. Does that clarify it? I do know one of our graduates is doing the WGU thing right now as part of a BS and is getting their MCSA as part of it. Personally, I think we use the certs as external validation that we're staying relevant, but when I see the A+ and other certs not keeping up (the latest A+ cert finally eliminated floppy drive questions!) I worry we're slipping behind as well.

      Certs are not in any way a validation that you are relevant and certainly not ones that are not even in the right field. Certs have a place, a good one, but they are VENDOR TOOLS, not industry ones. It's not appropriate to be using them in an academic setting in any way unless, as you had originally stated, using them as a guide to the "level" of knowledge, but never as a guide to the actual knowledge.

      How do you teach IT or Systems Administration without teaching students about any technologies they would be using on the job? You can't administer a System (which is from a vendor) if you don't know anything about it.

      So if a course wants to teach Linux or Windows Server administration... Well surely covering many of the things the "vendor tool" covers is a great start... Competencies, measured skills, etc.

      Well the first thing is that a course in college should not be teaching Linux or Windows administration, that's a trade school's job. They should be teaching concepts of administration. Now, that said, they need operating systems to use for that. But teaching concepts instead of specifics is the core concept of academic work and is very different than teaching to a vendor cert.

      Remember collegiate academic work isn't for the purpose of teaching on the job skills, but to teach someone the fundamentals and concepts so that those specific skills will make sense. You aren't teaching them which button to push, but why a button like it needs to be pushed.

      Example... you don't learn details of NTFS and ReFS, but you do learn file system concepts so that when someone tells you the details of NTFS and ReFS you can immediately understand them and understand other IT concepts when the market changes.

      This is a problem I see with most college grads. Instead of learning IT concepts, they just memorize the motions to go through to accomplish a task. They are only trained to follow a script, they don't understand why they do things or what they do means.

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      Critical Thinking - Is this what College Teaches?

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      And I want to keep repeating this... college has value. But this is certainly not it. Critical thinking is specifically one of the farthest things from what college does. College is far better at exposure to culture, making social connections, keeping people out of the workforce so that older workers can have lower unemployment and so forth. There is value, but it's mostly outside of education.

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      The Most Needed Skills in IT

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      @crustachio said in The Most Needed Skills in IT:

      I enjoyed this section of the article:

      The second big skill needed in IT departments today is an understanding of business – both business in general and the business referring to the specific business of their own organization. As I said at the beginning of this article, IT is a business enabler. If IT professionals do not understand how IT relates to their business they will be poorly positioned to valuate IT needs and make recommendations in the context of the business. Everything that IT does it does for the business, not for technology and not for its own purposes.

      With that in mind, what are some recommendations to improve one's business acumen from an IT perspective?

      Hypothetical scenario: Someone has worked at a small IT shop for years and is a comfortable sysadmin, but is considering an IT administrative position at a much more "corporate" environment. Their role will involve a lot more interfacing with other departments or agencies, as well as driving "big picture" projects and purchasing decisions.

      What resources could they use to improve their understanding of how to fit in in the business realm, and to develop the proper understanding of IT in such an environment? Are there any particularly good books on this subject?

      This is an area where university classes can be really beneficial, if you have access to the right ones. Classes on communications, business, accounting, psychology and such can be huge. There are three main areas that I can think of that really matter:

      Understanding people Understanding communications Understanding business

      And you might add on the more specific "understanding THE business" as well.

      The more that you have any of these, the easier things get. Even if you are a great communicator, if you don't understand the business and its needs at all, you won't have much to communicate.

      I don't know of any specific books around this. Maybe things like Open University or something would have resources.

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      Stanford Removes Java in Favor of JavaScript in Intro to Computer Science Course

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      Looks like Harvard has followed suit and is blindly following Stanford into moving their CS program closer and closer to just being relabeled software engineering.

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      Why University Discussions Will Always Be Emotional

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      How to Approach a University Education for IT

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      Choosing a University Degree for IT

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      Very helpful.
      Thank you for sharing.

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      The Big Evil Question

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      @thecreativeone91 said:

      It's bigger than us if you count just the Subsidiary I work for at a big under 10k employees. But with our cooperate company, and the other subsidiaries we are way way bigger. Granted we are #2 in our industry.

      You know someone isn't too big when you are comparing them to the subsidiaries of other companies 🙂

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      College Degrees: Worth the Expense?

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      @scottalanmiller said:

      @ajstringham said:

      I hope to find an MSP that offers training benefits someday. That'd be heaven for me.

      MSPs lack the necessary margins to do that.

      A guy can dream!

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