imPower Technologies Embraces Switch to Online Learning | Contributors - IT Jungle

Traditional schools around the world are in turmoil as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown and the sudden switch to online learning, says Alex Woodie, Senior Editor at IT Jungle. 

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For Jim Buck and his new IBM i training venture, imPower Technologies, the sudden popularity of virtual education validates the work he and his colleagues have done to build an Internet-based IBM i education operation.

“We’ve been preparing for this unknowingly for years now,” imPower Technologies Chief Operating Officer Michelle Lyons says. “Had we known, we couldn’t have prepared better.”...

imPower students are free to peruse the course material — including written material and pre-recorded video lectures — at their own leisure. This part of the class is delivered via the Moodle LMS. For lab assignments, students switch over to imPower’s IBM i environment, where they use IBM tools like ACS and RDi to access the IBM i server and develop programs for it. When students complete their lab work on the IBM i server, they switch back over to the LMS.
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Source: IT Jungle