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Internet computer training site a big hit
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CIT lecturer Brian Brown,
whose web-site is up for an international award. A self-learning, self-paced
computer training programme set up on the Internet by a
Central Institute of Technology lecturer is proving a big
hit - literally. Brian Brown's web site attracts some 25,000 'hits' per week, 90% of these being Americans calling up the free-of-charge training modules. |
Award
Mr Brown, the principal lecturer in information technology at Upper Hutt's CIT, has now learned his project has reached the finals of the Global Bangemann Challenge. He'll head off to Stockholm, Sweden, to attend the awards ceremony, to be held 9 June.
The Challenge is an international competition to reward excellence in IT projects, while building a network of cities around the world involved in information sharing.
Mr Brown told the Hutt News his teaching website was designed initially to meet the needs of internal IT students and is still used as part of the teaching programme for those studying for the National Certificate in Business Computing.
All notes are on-line and cover such things as how to use computers, how to network them, and how to create web pages. It takes about 30 hours to complete each module and people can then test their knowledge on-line.
It's one of the most popular sites in New Zealand and Mr Brown and colleagues now produce d CDROM derivative of the web site which has been purchased by major universities around the world for use as a teaching tool.
The CIT web site, Life Long Learning on the World Wide Web, can be found at:
www.cit.ac.nz/smac/csware.htm
Information on the Challenge is at:
www.challengc.stockholm.se
