The Web of the future.THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA'S LEADERS believe that Web 2.0 technologies will be a driving force in the workplace of the future, so they're laying the foundation for teaching those skills to students. The school has partnered with IBM's Academic Initiative program to help students master such things as blogs, online social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network , and podcasting. The program will help replenish the supply of skilled IT-savvy workers lost to the dot-com bust Refers to the years 2000 to 2002, when the bottom fell out of the dot-com industry and hundreds of dot-com companies went bankrupt. All the rest lost a huge amount, if not almost all, of their stock valuation. See dot-com bubble. at the beginning of the decade. Computer science studies declined in the ensuing en·sue intr.v. en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues 1. To follow as a consequence or result. See Synonyms at follow. 2. To take place subsequently. years, but now, with emergence of new technologies related to the Web 2.0 framework, businesses anticipate a new need to have employees with these skills. "It's a natural evolution of the web," says Andrea Winkle, UA adjunct instructor and coordinator of early outreach for the MIS department. "They're going to have to learn to involve their customers more in their value chain and it's going to give those who do a competitive advantage." Students will team about the rote rote 1 n. 1. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension: learn by rote. 2. Mechanical routine. of online communities in business, the common types of community tools and environments, and how to launch, populate To plug in chips or components into a printed circuit board. A fully populated board is one that contains all the devices it can hold. , and grow communities. The course consists of traditional lectures, virtual class sessions, and real-world experiences. |
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