“Fusing the popular Packet Tracer network simulation tool with Webex is a particularly effective learning experience,” says Hamid. In addition to video conferencing features, Hamid says Webex helps instructors manage attendance gradings and even sends automated reminders to students about meetings or classes. “Webex is integrated within the platform, making education features more readily available to instructors and learners, including whole-class, lecture-style interaction via video and audio, breakout lab-group style interaction and screen sharing with remote annotation, desktop mouse and keyboard sharing, and whiteboarding.” Since November 2020, Networking Academy instructors have created more than 36 000 meetings, totalling more than 3,4 million minutes, and have reached more than 829 000 learners in the process, worldwide.” Digital platforms like Cisco Webex provide flexible, secure ways to engage students before, during, and after class.

The company has achieved this by expanding free access to Webex accounts to its Networking Academy instructors, affording them an opportunity to transition quite easily to a remote teaching environment.Īlfie Hamid, who leads Cisco Networking Academy’s global partnerships says: “Distance learning does not have to be isolated learning.

Almost 45 000 of these students are based in South Africa. Cisco Networking Academy has, through its collaboration and video conferencing technology Webex, empowered almost 300 000 students to continue their education across the African continent over the past year.

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