META has been operating as a Cisco Academy Support Center (ASC) since 1999. ASCs are recommended for all Cisco Academies since they operate as Tier 1 support.
The following courses require Academy Support:
- IT Essentials
- Networking Essentials
- Introduction to Networks
- Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials
- Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation
- Cybersecurity Associate
- DevNet Associate
- Network Security
Academy support is recommended for all Cisco Academy courses.
Our Mission: Improve the quality and quantity of Cisco Networking Academies.
Our Vision: META Solutions’ Cisco Academy staff will collaborate to share best practices, methodologies, curricula, course modules and materials, provide faculty training and offer support to schools who want to implement and develop a Cisco Networking Academy.
META promotes sustainability and success of its aligned Cisco Member Academies. Our goal is to create a resilient Cisco Academy Community who shares information and ideas, enhances our member’s skills sets and improves the education of Cisco Academy students.
Each Cisco Academy is required to select an ASC who will:
- Assist in monitoring of programs
- Expand the quality of programs
- Increase student success
Cisco will communicate with ASC partners to ensure critical operational messages are received and understood by academies. Cisco will also provide ongoing educational opportunities for ASC partners to make certain the ASCs have the information they need to be successful. ASC partners are the “eyes and ears” in their geographic region.
Duties of META’s ASC
- Deliver initial and ongoing support to academies
- Virtually and/or live
- Via phone, email, and social media
- Synchronous or asynchronous
- Help with navigation of https://www.netacad.com
- Locate training or other services
- Assist in ordering and upgrading equipment
- Provide administrator orientation
- Direct academies to resources and support
- Localize and disseminate critical communications from Cisco
- Familiarize academies with new tools
- Back academies with change initiatives
- Build awareness and offer training on available and updated resources and tools
- Afford professional development opportunities
- Offer advanced training opportunities
- Recognize outstanding academies and students
- Contribute proactively to the online community discussion boards to help connect members to available resources and the latest program information
- Encourage academies to share best practices and engage in student success, curriculum, and operational discussions
- Extend optional site visit (fee may be charged)
Support Fee Structure
| Cisco Academy Support Package Includes all Cisco Academy coursework on https://www.netacad.com |
$1000 |
For more information regarding META’s Academy Support, please contact Elaine Horn or Iris Kutch at (740) 389-4798 or by email at netacademy@metasolutions.net.