Open gywerd opened 3 years ago
Just heard about this initiative and we'd love to help out. I'm not sure if this is the right place to get in contact but I hope it will find its way. We're a team of 3 lecturers at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Ghent (Belgium) we're teaching Enterprise C# Web Development in the last year in the Bachelor of Applied Information Technology. Currently we have an open source course with the following goals:
We've created a simple portal with 11 chapters and some optional chapters which can be found here. The course is open source and can be found here.
A small impression of the course:
@katiesavage, @frankodoom how can we help? you can send me an email at benjamin.vertonghen@hogent.be.
Background
Microsoft retired MCPD in 2016 and then MCSA,MCSD & MCSE this january - apparently shifting focus to cloud development. Currently Microsoft LEARN has no plan on replacing them within the role based certifications - leaving a gap for desktop development, SQL-development etc.
Perspective
This is a great opportunity for the .NET Foundation to deliver training and certification independent of the Microsoft cloud-platforms. At least for the next 5-10 years, there will still be a need for desktop applications - and cross-platform
Proposal - Official Training and Certification
The proposal is to initiate a platform for learning the C#-language and development software development with the .NET technologies:
Additionally the platform could offer inexpensive, quality certification e.g.:
What is needed
How can I contribute