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aculty members Dr. ViJay Bhuse,
Mr. Larry Saccoia, and Mr. Al Portes
have earned the highly-coveted Cisco
Academy Instructor Trainer certification,
and are now authorized to train Cisco
Academy Instructors worldwide.
The role of Instructor Trainer is the top
teaching and technical role in the Cisco
Networking Academy. These trainers are
responsible for promoting academic and
instructional excellence among Academy
Instructors. In order to be designated as
an Instructor Trainer, Cisco created a new
rigorous qualification process requiring
instructors to:
Be nominated from a Cisco Autho-
rized Instructor Training Center
Achieve and maintain industry certifi-
cation associated with the Network-
ing Academy curriculum they will be
teaching
Take and pass a pre-test
Pass a two day face-to-face evalu-
ation, scheduled and delivered by
a member of the Cisco Technical
Advocacy Team. (This evaluation
includes hands-on configuration and
troubleshooting, as well as preparing
and presenting demo lectures.)
With these three Instructor Trainers, ECPI
University is now designated a Cisco
Academy Instructor Trainer Center (ITC)
as well as a Cisco Academy Support
Center (ASC), making it among just a few
select locations on the east coast to have
achieved this status.
As an ITC, ECPI can now provide
training, technical support, and
ongoing professional development for
(and approve) new instructors. As an
ASC, ECPI University is the provider
of baseline support and partners with
academies to promote a quality student
experience, sustainability, and student
success.
Dr. ViJay Bhuse
Faculty/University Earn Top Cisco Designation
Mr. Larry Saccoia
Mr. Al Portes
M
oorefield Campus Director of
Academic Affairs Paul Nussbaum
has co-authored
Pilot Study: The Use
of Electroencephalogram to Measure
Attentiveness towards Short Training
Videos
, published in the International
Journal of Advanced Computer Science
and Applications.
“As teachers, we all want to know how
good our classes are, and the same
holds true for the training videos that
we create for podcasts, online and the
mobile university,” says Nussbaum. “With
the advent of sophisticated biometric
electronics and signal analysis, we
might be able to get a measurement
of how attentive a student is while
they’re watching a short training video.
This article describes the pilot test of
equipment and algorithms that use EEG
(brain waves) to measure this. Now that
the pilot test is complete, the research
can begin to create this system and
method.”
Moorefield CDAA Studies
Efficacy of Training Videos
ECPI University is now des-
ignated a Cisco Academy
Instructor Trainer Center (ITC)
as well as a Cisco Academy
Support Center (ASC), mak-
ing it among just a few select
locations on the east coast to
have achieved this status.