{"id":1603,"date":"2024-03-25T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T05:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T05:17:28","slug":"technoon-a-new-community-technical-education-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/technoon-a-new-community-technical-education-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"TechNoon &#8211; A New Community Technical Education Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Along with Ben Denham, I&#8217;m co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/technoon.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/technoon.org\">TechNoon<\/a>. The elevator pitch: &#8220;TechNoons are brief, free, industry-led, in-person training courses run at lunchtimes for people in technical jobs wanting to improve their skills.&#8221; TechNoon courses will usually have four sessions of 2-3 hours each (including homework). We think there is a major gap in technical education for people already in employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-technoon-is-needed\">Why TechNoon is needed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tertiary degrees and diplomas<\/strong> are not a good answer for people already in jobs. Even boot-camps are a significant challenge for most people with job commitments. Courses also tend to be too general with hit-and-miss content for people in specific roles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On-line courses<\/strong> and <strong>individual articles and documentation<\/strong> can\u2019t provide the individualised support and the motivation that an in-person course can.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Internal corporate training<\/strong> can\u2019t achieve the economies of scale and specialisation of an industry-wide training ecosystem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vendor training<\/strong> doesn\u2019t cover the range of skills required and is not focused primarily on what is good for industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Have other people delivering pre-prepared TechNoon training content<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have courses run outside of Auckland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extend the range of technical skills covered<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consolidate industry support in the form of trainers and venues<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set up a community organisation to underpin TechNoon and to provide train-the-trainers courses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Ben Denham, I&#8217;m co-founder of TechNoon. The elevator pitch: &#8220;TechNoons are brief, free, industry-led, in-person training courses run at lunchtimes for people in technical jobs wanting to improve their skills.&#8221; TechNoon courses will usually have four sessions of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/technoon-a-new-community-technical-education-initiative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,18,39],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-programming","tag-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}