Over the weekend, the News & Observer published an article that addressed two important topics with respect to the IT industry and the field of online information technology training. It pointed out, first of all, that women are still significantly under-represented in computing careers. Specifically, they comprise about 26 percent of the jobs in the … Read More
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Don’t Limit Yourself to the “Best” Information Technology Fields
On Sunday, New Jersey’s The Record ran an article that highlighted the still highly positive outlook for information technology jobs and went on to specify four specific degrees or fields of study that one might expect to pay off remarkably well in the coming years. The article provides a handful of meaningful data points to … Read More
IT Security Threats Growing Rapidly
A new article at InfoWorld deals with the topics of malware and IT security in the present day, when security challenges are growing by leaps and bounds, and on a daily basis. The article gives the same information in a few different ways, which is understandable since the statistics are staggering. It points out that … Read More
“Technology” Means More Than You Might Think
In a recent article at IT World Canada, Don Sheppard made the argument that “technology is an overused word.” While the purpose of his observation seems a little muddled and he does little to illustrate this supposed overuse, he does point to some potentially interesting questions about the role of language in driving people toward … Read More
Online Information Technology Training for the New Year
As of this posting, the New Year is right around the corner. This is a time to reflect upon the career skills that you have developed over the previous year and the ones that you are likely to need in the coming year. If you have definitive answers as to what your employers or prospective … Read More
Conferences May Open the Way to Competitions Over IT Skills
In the past, we have recommended that you remain mindful of conferences and events that you can attend to help understand the IT job market, to network with other IT professionals, and determine what sorts of online information technology training are most important to your prospective career path. We also promised that we would make … Read More
Free Training Now, Online IT Training Later
There was an article in the Houston Chronicle recently – certainly not the only one of its kind – which described the availability of various tuition grants for information technology training programs. That particularly article took San Jacinto College as an example, but if you’re on a blog because you’ve been searching for an online … Read More
Though Not Enough, IT Training Can Do Much for the 3rd World
A few months ago, information technology expert Irving Wladawsky-Berger wrote a policy brief for the Brookings Institution titled “Will the Digital Revolution Deliver for the World’s Poor?” We’ve briefly returned to that topic several times in the past few weeks, as part of our effort to emphasize the ways in which online information technology training … Read More
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
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