What is the IBM Academic Initiative?
IBM Academic Initiative is a global program that facilitates the collaboration between IBM and educators to teach students the information technology skills they need to be competitive and keep pace with changes in the workplace.
Why should you join?
Become a member of the Academic Initiative to get no-charge access to hardware, full-version software, professionally developed courseware, tools, training, books, and discounts. Let us help you keep up with the latest technologies and reap the benefits of open source.
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Featured content: 18 May 2012
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Learn about and teach marketing automation in the digital age
Marketing automation empowers marketers to turn site visitors into repeat customers and loyal advocates by orchestrating a compelling experience through each customer's individual lifecycle. Learn how the IBM Coremetrics Digital Marketing Optimization Suite gathers the data and insights from customer profiles through online, social and mobile channels, and integrates them into applications such as display advertising, search campaigns, email, and personalized recommendations.
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All the resources you need to teach students about information assurance and security
Businesses are under intense pressure to protect their most valuable assets — money, customer data, intellectual property and brand. This is causing a growing demand for security professionals in the job market. Our new Information assurance and security resources can help your students develop security intelligence skills. We have white papers, technical articles, courseware and software downloads to assist you in building curricula around this important topic.
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Spotlight on Dr. Ron Dattero: A leader in IT Service Management
Dr. Ron Dattero played a key role in the creation of an Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) undergraduate major at Missouri State University, which was the first of its kind in the USA and perhaps in the world. He has continued to lead with other innovations at his school, including the use of serious games in the classroom and the introduction of cloud computing.
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New online course to teach cloud computing using IBM SmartCloud Provisioning
(TOS29) IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 1.2 is a self-paced, virtual course that introduces the SmartCloud Provisioning product and shows how to install it and create a working infrastructure. It also demonstrates configuration, administration and management of the environment, including provisioning and removing virtual machines, managing images, and configuring network and storage services.
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Free iPad app offers interactive, hi-tech exploration of mathematics
The app, which you can download from iTunes, is an interactive vintage-meets-digital experience for students, teachers, and tech fans that illustrates how mathematics has advanced art, science, music and architecture. It reinvents the massive timeline on the history of math from 1000 AD to 1960 that was part of Mathematica: A World of Numbers...and Beyond, IBM's milestone World Fair exhibit.
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Download the CityOne Faculty Guide
CityOne is a serious game that puts the players in the CEO's seat, dealing with critical issues across several industries, as well as the ongoing challenges of long-term planning, competitive customer service, and sustainable practices. This guide helps you integrate CityOne into your classrooms so your students can explore the impact of technology on business.
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Educators: Enroll now for the System z Summer Seminar
System z is offering a no-cost Summer Seminar for educators June 13-15 at the IBM Poughkeepsie, NY facility. If you have an interest in large enterprise systems, either for teaching or preparing to teach courses related to mainframe technologies, this seminar is for you. Don't miss this opportunity to learn new skills, brush up on old ones, and network with your peers and subject matter experts. Enrollment closes May 25.
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Academic Initiative members can now download Linux software tools
We just added these two products to the Academic Initiative Software Catalog: IBM Loadleveler for Linux on x86 Architecture V5.1 (CRHE3EN) and IBM Parallel Environment Runtime Edition for Linux on x86 Architecture V1.2 (CRHE4EN). Academic Initiative members can download them at no charge.
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Spotlight on Dr. Matthew Nelson: Making business courses come alive
Dr. Matthew Nelson at the College of Business, Illinois State University is ensuring that his students are prepared to succeed in business world. His well-rounded curriculum brings together IBM Cognos Business Intelligence software, web-based learning materials, serious games, group projects, and contact with working professionals. Follow his lead and give your students the same advantages.
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All the resources you need to bring cloud technologies into your classroom
Our new Cloud computing teaching topic has great resources for you to learn about and teach cloud computing concepts. And, we have software for you to download and install so your students can get hands-on experience planning, installing, and administering a cloud environment.
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Teach about "Big Data" with Infosphere Streams courseware
InfoSphere Streams is a high-performance computing platform for big data processing that enables user-developed applications to rapidly ingest, analyze, & correlate information as it arrives from thousands of real-time sources. Check out all the courses we offer for teaching big data using this platform in your classrooms and labs.
