In 1996 Cisco Systems, that design, sells and manufactures
network equipments, found that the networking industry was booming and there
was a huge requirement of professionals who can design, manage, build and
secure computer networks. As a result Cisco Networking Academy was launched by
Cisco system that provides an online training curriculum, aimed to help high
schools and college students to learn the fundamental skills for designing,
building and troubleshooting computer networks.
Networking Academy was launched in October 1997 at 64
educational institutes that covers 7 US states. Since its inception it has
expanded to almost 9000 high schools, technical schools and colleges and
community organizations in 50 states of US and 170 countries. The curriculum is
taught in 16 languages from all over the world. Over five million students have
gone through these courses with more than 125 million online assessments.
Cisco systems give its credit to the strong public private
partnership for Networking Academy massive growth. The company’s mission to
create a distributed delivery structure where it could reach a maximum no. of
students by partnering with educational institutions has worked. Cisco provides
free Networking Academy online content, free instructor training and lab
material to its institutional partners.
Network bulls is one such institutional partner of Cisco. Network Bulls reviews are positive; it has one of the biggest Cisco labs in
entire Asia. All the trainers are CCIE certified. The students can practice on
real time Cisco devices. It has an excellent placement record with 5000
students placed in a span of 6 years. Network
Bulls reviews from its students also speaks a lot of its world class
training program.
How Networking
Academy works
In Networking Academy education model the training is
provided using face to face facilitation by instructors, hand on lab, in person
and online learning. Cisco assists the training partners with a large no. of
instructional tools, hands on lab material, simulation tool, online practice
activities, a visualization and assessment engine Cisco Packet Tracer and educational
games. The partnering institutions also get discounted equipment bundles and
support services with a global 24/7 NetAcad help desk.
Cisco Netspace
Networking Academy gives its online curriculum and
assessment with the help of cloud based learning management system known as
Cisco Netspace. Students can go through online course material, complete
assessments and assignments and connect with their instructors with the help of
Cisco Netspace. The portal is open all the time through which students can complete
their assignments at their convenient time.
In this system instructors can manage their courses. The
site is also used as a management system for Networking Academy administrators
to simplify common administrative task like scheduling, enrollment tracking and
managing equipment inventory. Regular updates on course curriculum and
assessment are also done through this system for Networking Academy 9,000 sites.
