DeVry University

Throughout its history, DeVry University has strived to prepare students for the challenges they’ll face in the workplace by bringing the real world—with “active learning”—into the classroom. This emphasis on real-world training and career placement—and its proven success—has made DeVry University an ideal choice for adult learners who return to school for a career change or additional training.
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Focus: HOPE Information Technologies

Focus: HOPE is an adult vocation training facility serving students in the Detroit, Michigan, metro area. A non-profit organization, Focus: HOPE houses an Information Technologies Center (ITC)that extends practical training and experience to students—many of whom are displaced workers or looking for a new skill set to change the direction of their career. “Some have retired from one career and are learning new skills, while others are fresh out of high school.”
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Henderson College

Henderson College’s Chief Information Officer, Kimberley Conley, taught a theoretical networking class online but refused to teach a much-needed online A+ Essentials course, feeling it was impossible to teach the practical, hands-on course without a physical classroom where students could practice. Conley discovered TestOut’s LabSim courses in 2006—the perfect way to give her students the practical environment she’d been dreaming of—and began preparations to teach the A+ Essentials course online.
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King Career Center

At King Career Center, a career preparation school for 11th and 12th grade students , instructor Teena Calkin teaches Public Safety & Security. Students learn the roles and procedures of criminal justice professions, and Calkin needed a way to teach the subject so that students learned it correctly and developed accurate technique. LabSim’s Crime Scene Investigation course was her solution. She says, “With LabSim, they learn the exact processes they need to go through virtually. If they make a mistake, LabSim doesn’t let them continue until they get it right.
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Middleburg High School

Middleburg High School in Middleburg, Florida, offers a Career and Technical Education (CTE) program with computer technology classes for its 9th–12th graders. Charles Thompson, teacher in the CTE program, works hard to provide his CTE students with real opportunities for hands-on experience to master the skills for building and maintaining computers and networks. But Thompson takes his job a step further to combine his students’ technical knowledge with the practical advantage of becoming certified in A+ and Network+. “I take my students to a Pearson VUE testing center at Florida State College at Jacksonville after they’ve proven they’re ready to certify,” Thompson said.
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New Jersey Career Center

A professional environment for students, New Jersey Career Center offers a Computer Technology program with training for Microsoft, Cisco, and CompTIA certifications. When the program began in 2002, NJCC searched for a way to give students realistic, hands-on experience, and LabSim was the solution. NJCC students are passing their certifying exams at a high rate, including student Al Arena, who revitalized his career after a lay-off by completing LabSim training at NJCC and certifying for A+, Network+, and CCNA.
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Penn Foster

Penn Foster is a school of independent study that offers more than 80 different programs of study for distance learners. Always looking for ways to expand Penn Foster’s course offerings, administrator Jeff Orr was intrigued by LabSim’s Crime Scene Investigation course. Having no physical campus, there was no way Penn Foster could have taught a crime scene investigation course without a product like LabSim, where students can work at home but still get the necessary hands-on experience to learn correct CSI procedures. “LabSim provides this realistic hands-on experience and the ability for us to actually evaluate how our students are doing working through these simulations,” said Orr.
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Richmond Senior High School

Brian Burch, teacher, wanted to create a 21st Century classroom environment where his students—juniors and seniors—would learn technology skills that would prepare them for college and careers. He looked for an interactive A+ training curriculum that would allow him to be facilitator and his students to be problem-solvers. Burch found LabSim and called it “a dream come true.” The virtual labs keep costs low for hands-on training, and the students have become fully engaged, discovering talents that many of them didn’t know they had.
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Allen Luck, Santa Fe College

Allen Luck started out as a student in Santa Fe College’s Network Services Technology major. His coursework integrated LabSim training for A+, Network+, and Linux+, as well as Microsoft and Cisco technologies. With the practical, hands-on experience gained from LabSim, Luck was hired as a full-time Systems Admin for Santa Fe immediately after graduating. Now, part of his job is administering LabSim on campus, and he understands better than anyone the value of the training.
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Schoolcraft College

A college outside Detroit, Michigan, Schoolcraft has many adult students who never thought they’d be back in school. Many have already worked in computer-related jobs, but they don’t have the degree to back up their experience. Computer Information Systems professor William Schlick works with these students and uses LabSim to supplement his instruction and train students in A+, Network+, and CCNA. Schoolcraft students learn they have skill sets they never realized, and they excel in LabSim training.
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Virginia College

Virginia College’s Online IT program offers 30 courses related to IT certifications. VC’s IT Program Director, Tommy Whitlock, needed a solution to give his distance education student real-world, hands-on training, without requiring them to purchase expensive hardware to “practice on” at home. The school discovered TestOut in 2004, with LabSim training courses that give students the practical experience VC was looking for.
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Walla Walla High School

At a rural high school where over 70 percent of students never complete college, instructor Dennis DeBroeck works hard to give his students a state-of-the-art technology education. When the cost and upkeep of a physical lab became too great, DeBroeck needed a solution to give his students real-life experiences. He discovered LabSim in 2001 and has seen hands-on learning, reduced costs, and less hardware gone to waste. Most importantly, his students come out of the program with some college credit, and they’re finding higher level IT jobs.
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Westchester Community College

Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, has nearly 12,000 part- and full-time students, as well as an additional 8,000 continuing education students. Almost one-half of Westchester students are over age 25, returning to college to advance their career. With more than 50 associate and certificate programs, daytime, evening, and online students have plenty of options for their education and career development. One of those options is Computer Security and Forensics.
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West LA College

At West LA College, 80% of the student body take their courses online. That means finding high-quality online course material that will give students “the equivalent or better learning experience online” than they could have in a classroom on campus. TestOut has been their answer in the IT program. Professor Marcus Butler has built his entire syllabus around the LabSim training courses, with lab simulations, instructor videos, and practice exams. The results: students are gaining hands-on experience and preparing for their careers.
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