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Academic Course Work Applied ml: Machine-learning - Anchors Academic Standards and Source Certification
Need in the Market Virtual Classroom and Online Learning Comparative Advantage - 4Ps - Move Up Decision
Organic SEO or Proud Cornellian SYS-ED Courseware Scarcity of  IT Textbooks
Textbooks and Courseware Courseware as Learning Center CETi Business Model and ml: Machine-learning - Use the LinkedIn URL module.

Academic Course Work Applied

Empirical data and experience in teaching information technology subject matter from 1980 - 2019 is being codified into instructional design heuristics and algorithms for use in quality and cost and improving and measuring Computer Education Techniques, Inc. dba SYS-ED client-employee/student learning outcomes.


SYS-ED Information Technology Training Service

Moodle Framework - CETi Modified and Applied.
Technology Driven
Information Technology Training
NYS BPSS Regulations
Dun & Bradstreet - PPE: Past Performance Evaluation
Cornell University - MBA Transcript
Algorithms and Applied Mathematics
Empirical Data Management and Quantitative Methods
Behavioral Economics
Anchor   Anchor 1
 

Performance Learning Model

 
Academic Business Theory
Customer / Client Course Search
Advanced Course Search
and Courseware Search - Database

Instructor Training

ml: Machine-learning: Quality Control
Algorithms and Empirical-Data
Aggregation and Research
Web-based Forms
Drucker Institute Categorizations
Textbook Extensions
Blockchain Principles and Design Architecture

ml: Cost Control
ml: Continous Update
Applied Mathematics
 

Chained ml: Machine-learning Pinwheels

 
 

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The CETi website operational infrastructure has been developed to apply the lectures, course work, and assignments from Cornell Phd professors David Thomas, John McClain, Ron Hilton, and executive in residence - William Wendell, CEO Carborundum. This includes modeling, testing, and refinement, cost accounting - product pricing and strategic planning.

The David Shapiro LinkedIn profile is being populated with blog, research articles, work performed, recognized credentials, and insights from the Cornell Executive magazine. It also includes recommendations from Ms. Jeri Roberts-Appel - Cornell University, BA and MBA.


ml: Machine-learning - Anchors

The CETi ml: machine-learning framework and source libraries are extending the open source Moodle content guidelines in conjunction with the New York State Department of Education Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision regulations and standards. Those two anchors build upon the Dun & Bradstreet PPE: Past Performance Evaluation - Massachusetts Institute Technology - machine-learning. Additional ml frameworks continue to be be identified, evaluated, and tested as pinwheels and anchors.

The CETi business model has been transitioned to teach from virtual classrooms in conjunction with video conferencing platform hardware and software technology to help client/employer - students learn IT subject matter. CETi is the aggregation and research website and provides information technology resource inputs and a technology partner course schedule for qualified third parties.


Academic Standards and Source Certification 2

The CETi information technology training service is based upon academic standards and machine-learning quality and cost control with continuouts update. CETi and SYS-ED websites have been developed to provide a factual independent presentation of categorized and software specific website information for self-exploration and alternative ways to achieve learning objectives, job skills, and return on investment. Not everyone should enroll in a CETi technology partner or SYS-ED course. Certain courses only should be taught by the source software company or open source purveyor. There are pathways and progressions to achieving an open badge or source certification. Streamlined project-specific learning paths for hybrid information technology also are provided.

In conjunction with researching emerging trends in information technology and developing strategic learning paths, there is a utilization and review of the available free, low cost, and commercial documentation in the public domain. This includes the software company and open source purveyor websites and IT software training resources available through the New York public library system. SYS-ED categorized and software specific websites provide information about the software and multiple approaches to obtaining the training.

The CETi board of directors believe strongly in the value of source software and open source software certifications. Investments continue to be made in earning and expanding the credentials to conduct source certified NRV: Nationally Recognized Vendor curriculum. In the short-term, the technology partner course schedule will provide course titles and accompany courseware where there is no NRV: mainframe environment, programming languages, and database. It also includes submission to accredited academia criteria for course attendance and demonstrated mastery of subject matter/work peformed for recognized credit hours.

The company is committed to applying the findings of the Microsoft Corporation commissioned report regarding the improved workplace project performance associated with source certification.

  • Top performing teams on average have between 40 and 55 percent source certified commercial software company team members.
  • Sixty-six percent of managers believe that certifications improve the level of service and support offered to IT end-users and customers.
  • Seventy-five percent of managers believe that certifications are important to team performance.
  • The level of skill that a team has is directly responsible for how an organization performs in several key IT functional areas.
  • When leading source software company certified personnel are added to a project, it directly affects team performance.
  • For each new team member certified, team performance increases.

The IDC study was conducted before the widespread incorporation and use of OSS: open source software. Online learning and teaching information technology subject matter was starting to be used.

Since 2020, Congress has sent an additional $190 billion to schools, in part to help them reopen safely and stave off layoffs. There were shortcomings and criticisms of remote instruction in K1 - K12 during the pandemic. The first year of the pandemic left students an average of five months behind in math and four months behind in reading, with much larger gaps for low-income schools. The United States spends more per pupil on public education than most other countries.

In June 2022, the United States Education Department announced that it will be foregiving the $5.8 billion of debts of 560,000 borrowers who had enrolled in the for-profit Corinthian College chain, which collapsed in 2015. This was in response to allegations of illegal recruiting tactics, shoddy educational programs, and false promises to students about their career prospects and potential future earnings. “For far too long, Corinthian engaged in the wholesale financial exploitation of students, misleading them into taking on more and more debt to pay for promises they would never keep,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said. The CETi information technology training services also will be addressing the issues being addressed by the FTC: Federal Trade Commission in the marketing practices of for-profit colleges.


Need in the Market

CETi is being positioned as a brand-neutral alternative to a subset of the services offered by OPM: Online Program Managers to accredited academia. The CETi information technology services will include courses and resource inputs where there have been reports of OPM shortcomings and problems in meeting standards of quality instructional design, cost control, and providing quality instruction with accountability for client-student/employee learning. These will be services directed to credentialed - masters and Phds in decision-making roles.

CETi ml: frameworks are used to identify, define, problems information technology training and provide a plan to address them with resource inputs, and techniques for teaching.


Virtual Classroom and Online Learning

The standard marketing and pre-qualifying of an IT training inquiry by CETi dba SYS-ED is to provide information on free and low cost alternatives available in the public domain and urls to the training options available on the source software company or open source purveyor website. The SYS-ED and CETi advanced searches provide additional information. The use and value of standardized tests are identified to the prospective client organization.

                   
      Moodle Framework      
                   
      NYS ED BPSS Standards      
                   
      Lesson Plan - Standard      
                   
      Technology Driven IT Instruction      
                   
      Video Conferencing Platforms      
                   
      Synchronous Real-time Asynchronous Self-paced      
               
      Drucker Institute Categorization      
                   
                               
    Closed Captioning         Content Libraries    
    Transcript         Copyright    
    Audio / Video         Table of Contents    
    Recording         Performance Objectives    
    White Board         Lessons / Modules    
    Polling         Review Questions    
    Break Out Room         Bibliography    
    Raise Hand /Emoji         Workshop Objectives    
    Chat         Workshop    
    Webinar         Index    
                     
      Digital Resources - Workspaces      
                 
      Technology Updates      
                 
      Assessment Validation      
                 
      LMS Integration - Client      
                 
  Website Support Services
                 

Not everyone is qualified to attend a CETi dba information technology course. Certain courses only should be taught by the source software company and the open source purveyor.

In the transition to a more extensive use of source of certification requirements and machine-learning, the grading standards of Union College and Cornell University are being used for quality control in website and courseware presentation. The decision to resubmit a license to the New York State Department of Education Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision will be made by the CETi board of directors.


Cornell 4 P's: Product, Price, Promotion, and Place

Need in the Market

CETi has been developing its information technology training services and resource inputs to address the shortcomings in online content delivery through video conferencing systems. 

CETi is targeting services that OPM: Online Program Managers have been reported as being deficient.   

-               instructional design for online course instruction for use within video conferencing platforms.

-               lack of investment and resources in relation to the tuition dollar collected. -               compliance with consumer protection laws and address the problems identified as the basis of lawsuits and investigations.

 -             a Trust Project based SEO - work performed, resources available, prototype-demonstration code, and research.

 -             scarcity of quality instructors.

-              provide pathways to source certification and alternative streamlined learning paths.

-              post course evaluation –and reporting to accredited academia, federal government, states, and accrediting agencies.

-              website infrastructure and transactional blockchain marketing that can be included in the catalogs of accredited academia with immersion information training resources.

Cornell University 4Ps and Comparative Advantage

Product - Definition of Service - / Target Markets; instructor credentials

The advertising and promotion model of for-profit colleges is dysfunctional  and counter productive.

Address the issues and legal action / closures that has been brought against the For-profit colleges and the OPMs: Online Program Managers.

For information technology course instruction inquiries directly to SYS-ED: Present the free and low/minimum cost IT training alternatives.

Direct the prospective client/student with resources available through the public library system.

Direct the client organization to the appropriate SYS-ED url namespace (software-specific and categorized website).

Provide recommendations for prequalifying students based upon accredited standardized tests: New York State Regents Examination, SHSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, etc.

This also could include high school and college transcripts.

Certain courses only should be taught by the source software company or open source purveyor. Use the NYS BPSS pre-qualifying questions.

Address shortcomings identified by report journalism.

Price - Cost Accounting Price Points - "Pay for what you Need"

Promotion - New Marketing Model - Website Infrastructure Marketing, Work Performed amd demonstration code

Place - Distribution - Affiliate Marketing

Build upon strengths - D & B Reliability, Delivery/Timeliness, Business Relations, Personnel

Robin Carnahan highlighted areas she wanted to address:

CETi website and commercial rate schedule need to engage and be informative to government agencies researching whether to buy information technology training - course, immersion, and updates.  

Use the commercial rate schedule to demonstrate the quality of the information technology training services; design and code and IT resource input deliverables available to government services.

Work with and through third parties to make it more appealing for people with technical expertise to work for the government, even temporarily.

Develop websites that are aligned with government policies - budgeting and procurement - and use websites to demonstrate competency.

Have a portal concept that significantly expands the information technology training services available from a single digital account. – such as login.gov. Making the damn website work.

Plus organic SEO and promotions.

Work performed - W9, course, and instructor.


Comparative Advantage - Additional

The commercial rate schedule being developed will be a bottom-up progression from SAM to SBA to WBE and MBE to a GSA commercial rate schedule; it will provide factual value-based content specific to the prospective government client: course search engine, advanced search, categorized and software specific website, technology assessment, etc. There will be a work in progress self-service component – download course outlines – which I am learning is a strategic issue – competition – minimal use , issue. And the rate schedule will be an advertisement (quality of design and code and how we do things) with links to content urls and how the training service can be delivered. There will be a concise use of forms and in the future, an audio/voice search, chatbot, and virtual agent. However, there also will be a voice mail answering machine.  And there should be a person – available to answer the phone also.

Comparative Advantage - Courseware for Teaching and Learning and Immersive Services

SYS-ED Courseware 3

There is a baseline service with optional and client-designated IT training resource inputs.

Course Search Title / Subject Matter
A Distance-learning
B Classroom
C Blended-learning
D Hybrid-learning
E Webinar
F Web-based Learning
G Podcast
Review Questions
Copyright Acknowledgement Bibliography
Table of Contents Workshop Objectives
Performance Objectives Workshop
Lesson/Module Indexes


Examples Case Studies
Training Aids Assessment Validation
Xn.. Yn..

Courseware and Textbooks - This needs an edit and

Initial Course Instruction - Baseline

The initial instructor-led presentation is a virtual classroom from within a videoconferencing platform using synchronous interactive teaching and learning: video, audio, transcript, whiteboard interaction, polling, and chat interaction - employee-student questions/comments. From this template, content is examined for technical accuracy and integrated with the client documentation requirement for a sequential presentation outline, textbook extension, teaching, learning, and reference-look up. Depending on the client organization’s price point, additional deliverables and immersive content then will be added/provided.


Course Instruction versus Self-study

Virtual classroom information technology training and self-study programs seldom will overlap.  CETi self-study development will be in IT subject matter adjudged to be specifically suited for independent learning:  Self-study required more extensive expert work and business model documentation up front to anticipate the possible needs and questions.  It utilizes multiple formats of asynchronous learning: video, audio, and digital content from CETi libraries.

Textbook as a Learning Center

Each course search entry is associated with one or more textbooks in the enterprise database. The textbook has an association with a reference card, assessment validation, and review questions. There are additional optional components - glossary, case studies, project coding specifications.


Textbook Review Service - Work in Progress

The CETi textbook review service categorizes the textbook by recommended audience in course search engine, grading on clarity of writing and meeting academic standards - Strunk and White, number and quality (grade) of sample programs by industry business model - Drucker Institute Categorization, use in progression to source software company and open source purveyor testing and passing source certification examinations. The base model for testing is LearnKey and GMetrix used in Microsoft certification preparation; it will include client-selected question formats and adaptive learning. Textbooks are extended in multiple ways for teaching and learning.


Courseware as a Learning Center (Not Self-study)

In areas where CETi/SYS-ED has taught training programs (typically 4 to 8 weeks in duration) and integrated course sequences for client organizations (Microsoft Windows programming, Microsoft .NET, and Oracle development platform) textbook extensions and courseware organized into courseware as learning centers.


CETi as a Portal to NYS BPSS

The standard input for a curriculum lesson plan submitted to the New York State Department of Education BPSS: Bureau of Proprietary - is a course outline, pre-course assessment, a primary and backup textbook with presentation slides, workshop, workshop solutions, set-up instructions, sample data, and website integration: technology updates, technology assessment, and learning paths. The FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions - aggregated and CFAQ- course frequently asked questions are a component of the continuous update associated with the video conferencing platform.


Scarcity of IT Textbooks - Curriculum Courseware

CETi developed the couseware in response to client requirements: operational, employee work to be performed, and measurable return on investment.

COBOL Programming IBM CICS Transaction Server
IBM Db2 IBM IMS Transaction Server
IBM MQ IBM VSAM

IBM Mainframe Programming Skills REXX Programming
UNIX and Linux IBM WebSphere Server

At the current time, there are few high quality up to date information technology textbooks in these areas organized and intended for use or integation into a client LMS system.


Textbooks and Courseware

Some clients elected to have CETi dba SYS-ED teach information technology subject matter using textbooks and CETi courseware.

MS Windows Maintenance Programming MS .NET Programming

Web Design and Programming Oracle Development Platform

The courseware adds technology updates and assessments; it is structured for sequential teaching and reference.


Courseware as Learning Center
z/OS JCL - Basic - Programming Skills PL/1 Programming - Maintenance Programming RAD - Java Programming Db2 for Java Programmers

Integrated course sequences and training programs taught in volume have been developed for self exploration and independent learning - review and additional integrated programming language and system software environments.


Sources

Who Controls Online Courses? The Century Foundation, American Educator | Spring 2022, by Stephanie Hall.

$5.8 Billion in Loans Will Be Forgiven for Corinthian Colleges Students, New York Times, June 1, 2022 by Stacy Cowley.

New York Post Holdings, Inc. 2022, Bloomberg Opinion - Micheal Bloomberg

CETi is researching the principles of The Trust Project with the goal of applying it to its website content; transparency and working with technology platforms to cite and confirm a more comprehensive information technology detailed reporting.


Footnote 1:

A NYS ED BPSS license was submitted and successfully completed in 2004. CETi management and board of directors were unanimous in agreement that the SYS-ED training service required improvement in multiple areas; it also did not reflect the major changes changes - hardware, software, and compound technologiies that were occuring; the internet, open source software, cloud computing, and mobile computing devices. Significant investment in quality control and website infrastructure was required. The decision was to build upon the Dun & Bradstreet Open Ratings - Past Performance Evaluation and its machine-learning fact finding.


Footnote 2:

Union College thesis - funded by the college. The research was directed by Joseph Finkelstein, Phd.

Technology and Markets in Transition - 1 Technology and Markets in Transition - 2

Updated - The principles and recommendations of Clayton M. Christensen are being used to evaluate and refine the test marketing - quality, cost, and disruption in the United States for information technology training. Footnote: The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, Harper Collins Publishers, Copyright 1997, 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Footnote 3:

SYS-ED: Jeri Roberts-Appel Mike Murach & Associates