IBM Academic Initiative

Building skills for a Smarter Planet

Evolving cybersecurity education for the next generation




Cybersecurity academic initiatives are in danger of falling short. Interviews with academics from 15 cybersecurity programs in 6 countries have identified the leading trends and challenges in information security education.




Adding information management and analytics to your courses

Looking to build out a course, concentration, or degree program around big data or analytics? IBM discusses how to teach those skills to your students in the new paper Conquering the skills gap: The IBM Academic Initiative prepares students for careers in information management and analytics.


How are your colleagues responding to the skills gap?

In the 2012 IBM Tech Trends Report, nearly half of surveyed educators and students identified a major gap in their institution's current ability to teach key skills. Now educators and others, including cloud-computing expert Amy Anderson, are weighing in.




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