Education Week recently published an article detailing the challenges facing K-12 schools in the United States when it comes to the privacy of student data. Such reports raise interesting questions about emerging opportunities for information technology job placements that put professionals in contact with the education sector, whether on a permanent or temporary basis, as … Read More
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More Examples of IT Training as a Force for Good
We’ve discussed this topic on the Canvas Info Tech blog before, but we’re always eager to take another look at the incentives that might exist for people to pursue online information technology training, other than in order to make great money in the IT field. For some candidates, certified scrum master training or ITIL training … Read More
Now Streaming: Your Motivation for ITIL Training
Canvas Info Tech offers a lot of options for where to start or carry on your online information technology training. We’re happy to help you plan your next steps for how to grow your skills and pursue your ideal information technology job placements, but we also understand that that can be a daunting decision, with … Read More
USA Information Technology Training for an International Talent Pool
According to the Indian news site Jagran, a ten year-old boy from the city of Ahmedabad achieved a perfect score on the Java Programmer certification exam last month, becoming one of the youngest children in India to successfully complete the test. The exam is usually taken by professionals who have already found their first information … Read More
IT Training and Certification Available to a Wider Segment of Society
In a previous post at this blog, we discussed the emergence of information technology training programs specifically geared toward the poor and disenfranchised. We also suggested that the first instances of these programs represented a growing trend that would provide substantial opportunities for training and development specialists and for supplemental, online IT training consultancies in … Read More
General Lessons from Specific Articles on Information Technology Training
The higher education technology website eCampus News recently ran an article detailing Information Technology Infrastructure Library with an emphasis on how it has been utilized by Ohio State University to, in the author’s terms, bring order out of chaos for its IT departments. These observations are easily generalizable to most any firm that has initially … Read More
Project Management and Data Analysis: The Overlap of IT Skills
At the beginning of the month, David Cotgreave of Project Accelerator News wrote an article that we considered interesting because it implicitly made the case for the overlap between two very different categories of online information technology training. As the name of the news source suggests, the article starts from the standpoint of project management … Read More
Scrum Methodology: Still Relevant, Increasingly Versatile
At the start of September, CIO contributor Sharon Florentine conducted an interview with Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-inventors of scrum development methodology. You can read it here. But to reduce Sutherland’s comments to their Cliff’s Notes, we’d say that for anyone who’s considering certified scrum master or certified scrum product owner training, the major … Read More
Online IT Training Could Lead You Directly to a Job
CNN Money recently shared an interesting story from the world of information technology recruitment and job placements. Fair warning: if you’ve ever spent long days searching through job listings only to be frustrated by a lack of opportunities, this story might make you green with envy. It concerns Max Rosett, a data scientist who was … Read More
Look at Emerging IT Projects, not just Current Employer Demands
It’s recently become something of a theme on this blog to highlight some of the potential projects that online information technology training might lead a person toward. That is to say, we’ve been focusing on the existing social problems and consumer demands that have yet to be addressed by information technology. We think this is … Read More