What is impact?
Andrew Smith SFHEA FRSA ????
UK Academic, HE in FE Specialist, Digital Technology Skills Evangelist, EDI Hero (according to WorldSkillsUK), Author & National Qualification Consultant [degrees | vocational | vendor | academic | apprenticeships]
Impact comes in many forms and playing the long game is in my biased opinion the route to sustainable success.
Ok, so you are wondering why I stated this article with a pithy homily - it is quite simple. When, we started the free Cisco Instructor training back in 2017. We could envisage a notion of impact, seeing how our free instructor training is reaching many new and established Cisco Instructors. However, with our relative naivety - we never foresaw the longer term impact.
Above is Nitheesh - an academic at University of Wales: Trinity St David, who came to them via our free Cisco Instructor training. Which reached a community of educators at Botho University in Gaborone - Botswana. Little did I know, that I would be giving a friendly Cisco ASC the benefits of our endeavors. Nitheesh, is now giving is best to UK (and of course Welsh) education and passing on the benefits to 100's of others, which we first gave to him.
There are many tales, many instructors and many stories - no matter how large or modest, they all make a difference. Please, help us learn how our project has helped you, or others ... share a little of the impact and benefit you have gained.
Meanwhile, we will continue to play the long game and offer more opportunities for educators. As, sustainable success comes from taking a long view, often it takes time for a Cisco Instructor to go from 'educated' to 'educator' - hence the need for a sustainable approach.
Engineer Telecom | Network Technician-support | instrutor Network| Sistema e cybersecurity
2 年Andrew Smith in my case, the experience was fantastic because although I had to sometimes not be able to be connected and I started to get it at the end of May and June, a lot of good things, even with the addition of CCNA-1, 2 and 3 certification (and more) at ASC-OU has profoundly changed my professional life., Thank you very much
Cyber Security Engineer - Ethical Hacker | CCNP Sec | CCNP Entreprise | CEHv12 | CyberOps | CISCO NETWORK SECURITY | PYTHON | ISO/IEC 27032 | NetAcad@CISCO TRAINER
2 年Hello Mr Smith! Sincerely grateful for the study opportunity offered to me through this ASC-OU program because it allowed me to improve my skills and to pass my certifications ..... Above all to be able to train in multiple academies and universities
IT Manager at Wellmed Healthcare Limited
2 年Hello Andrew, Personally, the CISCO trainings and certifications offered by ASC-OU is amazing, it hasn't only helped me as a CISCO Instructor but also helped me as an IT Professional. I got the chance to complete my CISCO Network Security and Cyber Security Certifications with ASC-OU.
Computer Networks / Cybersecurity / IT Infrastructure
2 年This is a great opportunity for those who want to get instructor status. The impact is huge. Many thanks for your hard work and support.
Manager IT chez Union Pharmaceutique Constantinoise
2 年Hi Andrew, For my case the free training for instructors with OU, allowed me to have more training panels in the IT field, as well as my professional background, thank you open university, and also a thousand thanks to Andrew for his assistance and support,