Check out www.TeachingTechnicians.org, a website that links technician educators with National Science Foundation supported, state-of-the-art, faculty development in advanced & emerging technologies, teaching methods, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
The ICT Center was established in 1997 as a division of Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), in Springfield, Massachusetts. Originally called the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies (NCTT), the ICT Center changed its name in 2008 to the National Center for Information and Communications Technologies (NCICT, or, The ICT Center). The ICT Center is one of 14 National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Resource Centers of Excellence, each one organized around a specific technology focus. The ICT Center is charged with leading a national collaborative of business and education partners to develop and disseminate an always relevant, industry-driven curriculum to teach and train tomorrow's ICT technicians and technologists.
ICT - Information and Communications Technology
ICT describes a truly convergent communications system used by traditional and emerging industries to conduct their core business and mission critical applications.
ICT is the technology used to handle information and aid communication. It is an umbrella term used to include:
Network-attached devices - hardware from routers and switches to cell phones, tablet PCs and PDAs
Transmission media - infrastructure components including core services and protocols
Applications for the wide area sharing of data and communications - interface software including video conferencing, security solutions and distance learning environments
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This material is based on work
supported by the
National Science Foundation
under Grant Number DUE 0302548.
