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2003 CAEL Conference An Award Winning Partnership: LexisNexis Sinclair Community College J.E.D.I. Certificate Program

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2003 CAEL Conference An Award Winning Partnership: LexisNexis Sinclair Community College J.E.D.I. Certificate Program

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    1. 2003 CAEL Conference An Award Winning Partnership: LexisNexis & Sinclair Community College J.E.D.I. Certificate Program November 13, 2003

    2. Partners

    3. Sinclair Community College – Dayton, Oh NOTE: This will be up during our introduction by the facilitator NOTE: This will be up during our introduction by the facilitator

    4. Patty Santoianni Professor – Computer Information Systems Dept. 937-512-2750 patty.santoianni@sinclair.edu www.sinclair.edu http://it.sinclair.edu

    5. Dave Finney Manager – Retrieval Services LexisNexis david.finney@lexisnexis.com www.lexisnexis.com Dave Finney – almost in person!

    6. LexisNexis Based in Dayton, Ohio World class data center, search engine Serving Legal and Tax professionals, plus Business, PR, Journalism professionals Offer information solutions, using world class search engine and a data repository of over 4 billion documents, stories and cases

    7. The History…

    8. The History… “Find the need and endeavor to meet it…” (David A. Sinclair) Brainstorming Session (industry, Greater Dayton IT Alliance, academic) Fast Track Certificate Program Goal: To create a rapid skill upgrade model for workforce development for persons already employed within the IT industry as well as persons starting second careers.

    9. The History… Expand the region’s Information Technology workforce 9-month certificate program focusing on Data Base theory, Latest Programming Languages, Object Oriented Design, Team Building Industry Steering Committee – competencies, curriculum, logistics Program launch – Sept. 1998 Rollout – Aug. 1999

    10. The History…

    11. J.E.D.I. Project Objective Develop and deliver a nine month training program to expand the skills of LexisNexis Systems Development personnel in Object-oriented design, Relational database and Java technologies Utilize components of SCC’s existing Fast Track curriculum; IBM University content and customized program development based upon LN requirements

    12. Why did we do it? Need to modernize segments of our online system Developed education program with Sinclair staff as joint effort Teach contemporary technical concepts to veteran development team Use new skills to modernize components of search engine software

    13. Partnership with SCC Sinclair helped with program development costs Sinclair staff teach classes at Sinclair site Our student-employees are registered as Sinclair students Sinclair awards usual credit hours for each class

    14. Project Details Team: 4-SCC (Chair, Faculty, Project Manager), 4-LN (Managers, Senior Architect, HR/Training Mgr.) Nov. 1 1999 – Project Contract Signed (Original Budget - $40,000) (Final budget summary: $19,800 - proj. mgt.; $16,560- curriculum development: $36,360 total) Phase 1: (Nov. 99 - Jan. 00) Design Phase 2: (Jan. 00 – Mar. 00) Development Phase 3: (Mar. 00 – Jun. 00) Finalization

    15. Project Details Initially defined: Current LN development environment Current DBMS environment Current skill set of developers Current skill set deficiencies 6 course certificate program: Object-Oriented Design (CIS 113) Client/Server Database (CIS 266) Advanced Java (CIS 283) Web Application Development (CIS 285) Enterprise Java (CIS 286) Java Enterprise Project Seminar (CIS 288)

    16. Needed a cool name!

    17. Logistics Exclusive offering to LN for 2000-2001 (public offering beginning Fall, 2001) Course scheduling 2 classes per quarter Tuesday: 8:30 am – 11:50 am Thursday: 3:00 pm – 6:20 pm Facilities Off campus Student Enrollment 16 students each academic year Assessment Course evaluations each quarter Status meetings each year

    18. LexisNexis Costs We paid part of program development costs We pay regular tuition and book fees to Sinclair for current students We provide laptop computers for all student-employees We allow student-employees to attend class during business day

    19. Student-Employee Costs All class work is done on employee’s time, including reading, papers, programming assignments, class projects Transportation to Sinclair site One of the weekly classes extends into the evening hours

    20. “Before” Skills Understands mainframe legacy commercial databases Skilled at procedural programming languages Programmer’s understanding of MVS environment; user’s understanding of Windows Knowledge of MVS multi-processing General knowledge of internet

    21. “After” Skills Object oriented design using UML Object oriented programming Relational and client/sever database concepts including db design and SQL Web Development including HTML, XML, Cookies, servlets, Java beans, JSP Java programming WebSphere development environment

    22. Celebrate!

    23. Benefits Received Students receive new technical skills Company receives enhanced workforce New large component released this year, built by “grads” of program Significant capability extension, written in JAVA

    24. Kudos National recognition for LN: Ranked #14 (out of more than 600 companies) in 2003 Special Edition of Training Magazine for training excellence JEDI program named as “outstanding initiative” LN credits its partnership with Sinclair as a major contributor to its training excellence

    25. Lessons Learned Consistency of hardware/software environment (students and faculty use pre-configured laptops) Course evaluations are important for continuous improvement Get course materials into hands of students before the classes Need class mentor/tutor Expectation of students needs to be clearly stated

    26. Best Practices Utilization of Project Manager during development Approval by both partners of curriculum, competencies and delivery Manager as “student” in each cohort Shared vision – desire to succeed! Continuous improvement Carefully selected, technically top notch 1st class

    27. Issues Ensure program meets employer needs Faculty availability and quality Investigating team teaching to ensure technical and academic standards are sustained

    28. Questions? Comments? THANKS!

    29. Dedication This presentation is dedicated in memory of two key contributors and our dear friends Donna Gravenstine and Rosemary Shannon

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