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1. What is CIW? The CIW program is a skills certification program specifically designed to help students, professionals and career-changers enter into or advance their Information Technology (IT) careers. The CIW program consists of a family of professional IT certifications and associated curriculum that teach and validate technology skills such as Internet and network foundations, Web site design, and e-commerce, including entry-level job-role training and certifications. CIW certifications also validate skills and expertise in advanced and diverse IT disciplines, such as security, server administration, project management, application development and programming languages. CIW is endorsed and supported by the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET).••• NWCET´s involvement ensures the promotion of the CIW certification as a practical way to implement skills standards, and it ensures that the CIW program continues to validate the skills required to succeed in the competitive technology-enabled workforce.
The CIW certification program: CIW certifications target students and professionals who currently or will design, develop, administer, secure and support Internet or intranet-related services. CIW offers a unique opportunity to learn, demonstrate and prove competence on Web-related technologies. The CIW program is vendor-neutral, which means the skills objectives taught and tested by the program focus on IT job roles, not vendor-specific products. This approach offers students a broader scope of knowledge and experience, which helps them in their current or future professional careers. More than 70,000 CIW certifications have been earned worldwide. The International Webmasters Association (IWA) and the Association of Internet Professionals (AIP) endorse the CIW program. Together with these associations, CIW promotes a worldwide educational and certification standard for Web industries in 106 countries.
Benefits of CIW certification: CIW certification offers industry-wide recognition of an individual´s Web skills and knowledge on an international level. It also provides tangible evidence of a student´s competency as an Internet professional and is frequently a factor in hiring and promotion decisions.
- Individuals holding CIW certification can demonstrate to potential employers and clients that they have met rigorous training and examination requirements, setting them apart from non-certified competitors.
- The CIW logo identifies individuals as Internet professionals who have been certified by one of the most prestigious vendor-neutral programs in the industry.
- CIW certification received the CertCities.com Reader´s Choice Awards as Best Web/Internet Certification Winner for 2003.
3. What is innovative about this program? In addition to being the first community college in Maricopa Community College District and in the state of Arizona to offer this industry-recognized Web certification program, the Business Department at MCC also incorporates this program into its official up-to-date Academic Certificates and Associate Degree of Applied Sciences in Web Technology.
4. Why is there a need for this certification program? The CIW certification program benefits MCC students in the following ways:
- Students receive quality education and industry certification training at an affordable price. Students will be able to purchase exam vouchers at 40 to 50% off the regular price at regular testing centers throughout the country, depending on the exams which are offered at Mesa College, within the Business Department.
- Courses are taught by qualified MCC's CIW faculty, who are CIW Certified Instructors.
- MCC is also an Authorized CIW Testing Center that can deliver official CIW certification exams to its students and IT professionals in the community. This community service is an important goal of MCC's mission to serve its community.
- Students can receive accredited college credits for certifications in Web topics such as Web site design, e-commerce site design, and Webmaster. In addition, students have the opportunity to earn internationally recognized CIW certifications at the same time.
- Our Web Technology Associate of Applied Science degree is transferable to PolyTech Institute, Arizona State University, at Williams Campus, for numerous majors in a Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) degree.
- Students learn practical knowledge and skills needed to earn internships and co-op training opportunities with MCC's partnerships in the IT industry.
5. For more information: Contact the Business Department at Mesa Community College to learn more:
Lo-An Tabar-Gaul, CIW Certified Instructor, Master CIW Designer, CIW Certified Proctor, and International Web Association Certified Web Professional Designer (CWP), (480) 461-7465, tabar@mail.mc.maricopa.edu
Juan Marquez, Ed. D. , CIS Faculty, (480) 461-7294, marquez@mail.mc.maricopa.edu
Linda Collins, Ed. D., Department Chair, (480) 461-7077, Collins@mail.mc.maricopa.edu
About NWCET: The National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) is a non-profit organization funded by the National Science Foundation to build upon the foundation of IT skills standards in order to design innovative IT educational programs, provide national thought leadership to education, business and government, and to contribute to the development of a skilled U.S. IT workforce. To learn more, visit www.nwcet.org.
About ProsoftLearning: ProsoftTraining (NASDAQ: POSO) offers content and certifications to enable individuals to develop and validate critical Information and Communications Technology (ICT) workforce skills. Prosoft is a leader in the workforce development arena, working with state and local governments and school districts to provide ICT education solutions for high school and community college students. Prosoft has created and distributes a complete library of classroom and e-learning courses. Prosoft distributes its content through its ComputerPREP division to individuals, schools, colleges, commercial training centers and corporations worldwide.
Prosoft owns the CIW job-role certification program for Internet technologies and the CCNT (Certified in Convergent Network Technologies) certification, and manages the CTP (Convergence Technologies Professional) vendor-neutral certification for telecommunications.
To learn more, visit:
- www.CIWcertified.com
- www.CTPcertified.com.
- Business and Information System Department, Mesa Community College
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