Should more institutions like yours teach iSeries Web application development with tools like WebSmart?
August: “Definitely. I participated in the IBM Summer School and Roundtable event this year and made a presentation on what my college is doing with its IT curriculum. At the last COMMON conference Moraine Valley won the IBM Innovation Award for Education Excellence for a System i client or college, so I talked about our integrated eCommerce curriculum and what we did to win this award. I also discussed our use of web application development tools including WebSmart. College instructors from around the country attended the roundtable and they were very interested. You need to train people for the things they are going to be doing in the future. They need to see all the advantages. If we just teach green screen programming, sure they will get a job however, we are not preparing them to change the way business needs to be done now and in the future. They should be exposed to the new technologies, not just the green screen stuff. Most of the other instructors at the IBM roundtable seemed
