The National Science Foundation has provided grant funding to launch the Mid-Pacific Information and Communications Technologies (MPICT) Center to coordinate, improve and promote ICT education, with an emphasis on 2-year colleges, in northern California, northern Nevada, southern Oregon, Hawaii and the Pacific Territories.
ICT
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is an umbrella term, widely used outside the U.S. and in the U.N., to encompass all rapidly emerging, evolving and converging computer, software, networking, telecommunications, Internet, programming and information systems technologies.
MPICT's 4.5 day Summer 2011 Faculty Development Week at City College of San Francisco's
Ocean campus will provide:
"Train the trainer" tracks to prepare faculty to teach new or improve existing courses or programs:
1. World Organization of Webmasters: Aligning and Improving Web Curriculum
2. Fundamentals of Software Assurance
3. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
4. To Be Announced Soon
Three pedagogical tracks to impart new teaching and learning skills:
5. Transforming Instruction with Problem Based Learning
6. Designing & Using Innovative, Collaborative & Fun Approaches to Teaching & Learning Online
7. Delivering High Impact, Hybrid Online/In-Person Courses

This event is free to qualified ICT educators. Visit www.mpict.org