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Events
pointerNCTT's 11th Annual
ICT Summer Conference
Seamless Connections at SAME-TEC 2008
July 28 - 31, Austin TX

This summer, NCTT is partnering
with MATEC and OP-TEC for our
summer conference.
Registration and more info

Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education
April 24 - 25, Lillington, NC
Sponsored by:
Central Carolina Community College
The workshop is free of charge.
More info is available at:
http://www.op-tec.org/workshop.php

NCTT ICT / Convergence
Winter Conference

January 4 - 5, 2008
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Presentations Available!
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View the Agenda
Read Presenter Bios

CREATE Center's
Facilitator Development Workshops
June 8-13, 2008

The FDW is five-day workshop offered at a retreat center in the Santa Barbara, CA area.
Details and Registration

NCTT 10th Annual Summer Workshop
July 10 - 12, 2007

Presentations are now available!

Resources

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).

Download the ICT Technician Skill Standards!

News
Questions about being an NCTT partner?

Read TECHcitement: Advances in Technological Education (1.5MB PDF), a detailed newsletter about the ATE program from the AACC.

The National Center for Telecommunications Technologies (NCTT) was established in 1997 as a division of Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), in Springfield, Massachusetts. NCTT is one of 14 National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Resource Centers of Excellence, each one organized around a specific technology focus. NCTT 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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