Seeing Distance Learning in action courtesy of @CiscoNetAcad ...

In spite of this being the eighth year of the CCNA being run at the Open University and over 5000 students having now participated on either the v3.1 or Exploration curriculum. One does still marvel at the enthusiasm and intense desire to learn, present in all of the students when they come to our day schools.

Today, I visited a relatively new partner, Milton Keynes College (@MKCollege), where Ken and his team have a small, yet perfectly formed Cisco Academy delivering Day Schools for our students. Here we have students preparing their routers and computers for the exercises/activities relating to CCNA2- Routers and Routing Protocols.

It was very pleasing to see how the tutor and the group collectively worked together (on a Saturday) to build a range of different network topologies. Using OSPG, EIGRP, RIP and static routes to considerable affect.

I have another couple of visits to other centres planned for later this year, lets see if they are as equally engaging.





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