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•Welcome to chapter 1 of the Academy Orientation. This course introduces key components, which include a description of tools that support a "train the trainer" model.
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•Internet and education create enormous opportunities for people and countries that can effectively harness the power of information and knowledge. •The lack of Internet-supported education and the shortage of technology-savvy workers challenges countries around the world, threatening to place nations that fall behind at a permanent disadvantage in the global economy. These countries now have the opportunity to accelerate development by embracing information technology
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•Academy courses help prepare students to test for the following certifications:
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•Ecosystem – The Cisco Education Ecosystem consists of educational institutions, corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations partnering together to build value through the innovative application of networked information technology to education.  •Digital Divide – The Academy Program helps to bridge the gap by offering programs in key countries and to underserved populations.  •Least Developed Countries – Cisco, in collaboration with several world organizations, offers The Academy Program to students in least developed countries.  •Work Place Learning – These initiatives give students and alumni the real world experience that employers look for.  •Cisco Learning Institute (CLI) – CLI is a public charitable organization that supports e-learning enhancements for educational and philanthropic institutions.
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•The Cisco Networking Academy Program offers an e-learning system.  This system supports Internet-enabled learning that encompasses training, education, just-in-time information, and communication. It includes the following benefits:
•The Global Learning Network - Services Manager (GLN-SM) is a component of the Global Learning Network. •The GLN-SM consists of two components. First, there is a person who assumes the role of manager.  This person carries out the responsibilities of this position. Second, there is specific hardware and software that helps the manager carry out Academy duties as needed for this type of work. •The GLN-SM allows Academies to track what assets are used to support the delivery of services for each course offered at the Academy.  Exampled of tracked assets are seen on this page.
•Curriculum Delivery
•Personalized Feedback Display Pages
•Net Labs
•More Information
•The Digital Opportunities website features the best practices of Academies serving digital divide communities. It provides forms and tools that all Academies can print and customize for their own use. •The digitalbridge listserv provides an opportunity for dialogue between Academies serving the digital divide. •The Donations Program works with Cisco Ecosystem partners who also want to help bridge the divide by donating products or services.
•Through the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Initiative, Cisco has entered into a partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This partnership has aided Cisco in establishing the Cisco Networking Academy Program in over half of the world's LDCs. As of early 2002, the LDC Initiative had reached 30 of the world's poorest countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean with over 1,300 students enrolled.
•The Gender Initiative is a project designed to increase women's access to IT training and career opportunities. Working together with our gender initiative partners, we can ensure that instructors in the Academy Program are equipped to address the gender digital divide.  The following tools have been developed for instructors:
•The gender module 
•A gender listserv 
•A gender website 
•Slide presentations 
•Marketing materials
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•The Academy Connection portal is just for Academy use, and provides access to the online Academy community, It is used to effectively manage Academies, classes, users and deliver curriculum and exams. It serves as an online community space with a login for personalized instructor, administrator and student experiences
•The top navigation bar includes links to provide feedback, contact us, view your profile, and log out. The left navigation bar provides links to available homepages, and shows the user's view path making it easy to move between pages. •The right navigation bar gives access to Academy services. These services include: the Site Search (please note: this does not search curricular content), Academy and Class Locator, Membership Directory, Academy Marketplace, News and Announcements and a Resource Center. The Resource Center contains valuable information in the following seven areas: Curriculum Downloads, Course Catalog, Library, Tools (including searchable FTP Center and Course Specific Materials), Help, Glossary and Community. •the Content Area in the center will vary a great deal as users navigate from page to page. The majority of the necessary daily functionality is provided in this section. Examples include class information, academy information, and communication functionality.
•the "What is New" section will be for additions and changes to this site. For this version of the Orientation, a comprehensive site alteration has occurred so this feature is not currently available. We are now learning this Orientation course in full to understand all of the new course content and tools.
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