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well hello again everybody and welcome. my name is jordan oaks. this is the online information session for the web development certificateprogram at ucdavis extension. got a few slides today here, andi'll go through these slides today, and at the end we can do a q and a. so, if you've got any questionsat any time that come up, feel free to type them into that q and abox on the right hand side of the screen, and i'll get to those atthe end of the presentation.
looks like we've got a good turnout today,i'm excited you've joined us. so this first slide is a little bitabout our mission at uc davis extension. we like to say that we're the lifelonglearning arm of uc davis. and we really provide those trainingopportunities that transform people, organizations, and communities. so, while most people are familiar withus through the courses that we offer in our catalog. we do a lot of other businesses wellworking with directly with organizations and sometimes with municipalities andcommunities.
and we're working a varietyof different areas to really create those transformative educationalexperiences that impact people's lives. we like to say that, you know, we'repart of the greater goal of uc davis. extension sorta servesthat outreach function, that outreach into the community function. we partner with every faculty inevery uc davis school and college. and the programs that we offer, the educational programs that we offer,they all carry uc credit with them. all the academic programs.
which means that these programs canoftentimes be transferred to another institution. although we always have to say, that's always at the discretionof the accepting institution. we can't guarantee that thosecredits will transfer but they are uc academic credit and wetypically do have good success with that. and extension also acts as sortof a transitionary step for future uc davis students. if the university experience wassomething that you thought you might
be interested in, taking some classesthrough extension can kinda help create that bridge into a degree program. it can really help you figure out ifthat's what you want to be doing, if that's the right program for you. and lastly,this is really the central part of it. i think we help professionals stay on topof the new developments in their fields. and also to help them retrain fornew careers. and here in the web developmentcertificate program, i can tell you that we've gota lot from both of those camps.
we have a lot of people whoare trying to stay current, in terms of web development technology. maybe they've done some in the past, and they're just trying to get theirfundamental skills trained up. or maybe somebody wantsto transition entirely, from a completely differentcareer into web development. we see that happening quite a bit. and as i'll get to a little bit later, web development's got really good careersatisfaction, good high salary rates.
so there's a lot of reasonspeople will transition in it. but, we're that bridge that kindahelps people get into the career that, maybe they don't want to go back toschool for a whole degree program, but a certificate might be that rightlevel, just to get them what they need. and this slide here highlightsthe long tradition of service and academic success that we'vehad here at extension. and we're very proud of this record. the most recent year thatwe have statistics for is the 2013-2014 academic year.
we offered 2,800 courses and a little bit over 62,000 enrollmentsthrough these online programs. and this web development certificateprogram is exclusively online so we do cater to students from allover the country and the world. including more than 115 countriesin our various different programs. and uc davis extension is, i believe,now in our 54th year of service. so that's another onethat we're very proud of. we're a self-supporting organization. so to have been in business that longreally is a testament to the value that we
provide to people andorganizations and the community. and as i mentioned we're self supporting,so we've had that model in place since the late 60s there andit's been a successful one for us. so who participates in thesecareer programs that we offer? as i mentioned earlier, a lot of students are motivated toadvance within their current jobs. so about 28%,almost 30% of them are career changers, and 76% have a bachelor's degree orhigher. so we tend to deal with folks who havea bachelor's degree all ready and
are looking to add on a little bit, butthat's certainly not a requirement. and, as i'll touch on a little bit later, web development, most positions donot require a bachelor's degree. your ability to get a job in thisfield is really dependent on what you can show through your portfolio. the bachelor's degree is common inpeople who participate in our programs. it's certainly not required andespecially not required in this field. but we tend to have typicallyearly to mid-career professionals who are really looking tofind their niche, find their groove and
so somewhat after the first five years orbefore the first ten. tends to be our range. and this slide here featuresour advisory board for our web development certificate program. and these folks are peoplewho do this professionally, who hire web developers, who know whatthey're looking for in the field, what specific skills and technologies. we tried to have a wide rangeof industries represented here, both private sector,public sector, universities,
both marketing firms from the sacramentoregion and all over the country. so we've got a representative from google,we've got somebody from hp. kim vu is a manager from the californiawater resources control board. shana groen there is a divisiondirector for robert half. robert half technology is a jobplacement firm for it professionals. so shana's job is literally to hire webdevelopers for larger organizations. she's been essential inhelping us really fine-tune the curriculum to makesure it meets those needs. sandra niehaus is the vp in closed loopmarketing which is out in roseville.
so, a local marketing firm. and dr. matt bishop is a professorof computer science at uc davis. so again,a pretty wide range of disciplines and a wide range of expertise contributingto help us develop this content. and here this is sort of a wordcloud representing the future development plans for us in the itunit here at uc davis extension. so i think a central themethat you'll find is data. we just launched a new data science class. we're gonna build that outinto a certificate program.
i think data sits at sortof a center of a lot of new innovations in the labor market. and we're looking for those ways that wecan train students in those skills to get them really really competitivein the job market. so data, i think, would be a central one, databases andconnecting your website to a database. but as you can see, that there's a lot of different anglesthat we're considering developing into and there's a lot of different placesthat that can go in the future.
so this slide here, this begins a little bit of specificinformation about our certificate program. it was recently launched, solaunched in spring of 2014. all of the classes are fully online. and we say they're asynchronous,they're offered asynchronously. meaning, you are free to log on and take the course work at anytime that you have free time. you're not required to beonline at any given time. and that's consistentthroughout the entire program.
so, there's really never a requirementto be online at a given, specific time. and you can really do this,you know, in your free time. whenever your schedule allows. i will add that if you need someadditional help or if you'd like to jump on say a call or a google hang out orsomething with your instructor to get a little bit of subjective feedback,we can always do that. and our instructors are very willingto jump on a google hangout or to get on a synchronous sessionwith you if you need some help. so that's an option too but just know thatthat's not a requirement and that you can
take the whole program from whereverit is that you can get on the internet. and this is a foundational program sowe like to emphasize that, that's really importantdistinguishing characteristic of this certificate program is that wefocus on the foundational skills. so this program is really meant to buildin the student a very solid foundation in the underlying skills andtechnologies behind web development. so we go through css andhtml, go into javascript and we focus on completely open-sourcetechnologies in this program so there's never a need topurchase any software for this.
everything is done in freeopen-source software. and like i said we focus on those basicfoundational skills that underly it. so what that reallymeans is coding skills. we like to say that we teach coding and programming logicprimarily in this course. but you also learn all of the skills and techniques needed to assemblea really dynamic, modern website. so we're not gonna learn thingslike drupal or ruby on rails, or any of those high levelprogramming languages, but
we will learn all of the techniques andskills needed to use those languages. and the reason that we do that isbecause every professional development shop is slightly different and most web development environmentsare very specific to that company. so we could train folks in any numberof different high level languages, but the skills that are needed to usethose languages are often the things that are not included inmost of these programs. so that's the place that we'vedecided to really focus on. so we spent a lot of time teachingthose foundational skills.
we've got five courses in this program. each of them are 3 units long fora total of 15 units in the whole program. they're all required and there's noelectives in the current format. and as i mentioned earlier, all ofthese courses do carry academic credit, and that is approved by the uc. so these credits can betransferred to a degree program, at the discretion ofthe accepting institution. and a little bit more,just about these learning objectives, i kinda touched on it earlier.
but we really want you toget hands on experience, so that you are the one, designing anddeveloping all of this from scratch. we don't use code editors or any other type of crutch thatcreates slightly easier code, but also creates sort of dirty code,and insecure code. we want you actually typing the codeyourself, actually hand-crafting it. so that's what we focus on. we go to html, css, javascript, php,we connect to an sql database and then at the end, in the cap sum coursewe bring it all together using ajax,
which i'll touch ona little bit more later. but not only do we teach thosefundamental basic skills, we also teach how you cankinda keep up to date. keep your skills up to date in this field. cuz that's an essential piece ofbeing a professional web developer, is always sharpening your skills. as, i think most web developers will tellyou, the code that they are writing, 18 months ago is almost indistinguishablefrom what they're doing now, and that's because the field is just so rapidlychanging, and that's another reason,
frankly, that we focused on theseunderlying foundational concepts. because those things really don't change,and those things have been in place and have been the same ever sincethe web started, in many cases. so by teaching those things,we're focusing on something that's really gonna benefit you ina big time way down the line. but we build those technical skills,including coding and everything i just mentioned. but we also focus on non-technical skills. so how to work incollaborative environments,
how to communicate with your stakeholdersand with your management team. and then, also how to create a verycompelling portfolio of your work. because as i said, that's the thing that'sgonna really get you your foot in the door at an organization,is being able to show them, look i was able to conceive of this andcode this myself. that's a really powerfulstatement to make to an employer. so the ajax course, the capstone course,does result in a portfolio piece that you will be able to take out andshow to the world what you are capable of. and here are all of the required courses,and this is the recommended sequence.
i will talk a little bit moreabout the sequence later, but this is kinda how werecommend that it unfold. you start with creating functionalwebsites, move into java script and you learn a little bit more about webprogramming in that second course, and then we incorporate server sidescripting and we use php for that. and next in the data base class,we learn how to set up a database and to connect it to your website, andto do some kinda basic querying to that database to getthe information from it and that's again an sql database thatwe focus on in that fourth course.
and then, in the fifth coursewe tie it all together. ajax stands for, it's an acronym, i believe it was originallydeveloped as an acronym. it may no longer be used that way,but it originally stood for asynchronous javascript andxml, i believe. now, i think they just kinda say ajax,[laugh] it's a combination of technologies that creates a really dynamicinteractive experience on a website. the example i like to give ofajax in action that most of us have come across is a google search box.
nowadays when you type yoursearch into the google search box it sends the letters thatyou are typing back to the server and comes back with suggestions forthings you might be typing. that is actually ajax at work. that's creating dynamic contentin that little box, but it's not having to refresh the whole page. so that's just one littleexample of what ajax can do but it's just really away to make very,very dynamic and powerful websites that canadmit modern day standards.
so in that class, that capstone class that you create a webapplication that you can see above. a new craft and that would becomea center piece on your portfolio. so i've got here now just a slideabout each of the classes. i'll kinda go throughthese fairly quickly. but if you have any questions, again,feel free to type them into that q&a box on the right-hand side of your screenand i'll make sure we get to those. this first class calledcreating functional websites, i like to say that it's the basicsof the language of the internet.
how does the internet work? how are you gonna crack it open,a website, look into the backend and see how it was actually put together,and what elements go into it. you'll learn how to code yourself. how to actually type code in html. you'll build a basic webpage. but it'll be a static webpage,meaning sort of an informational website. or web page, and actually you know what,that's i believe you make a website that consists of ten pages here as your finalproject in creating functional websites.
so i just wanna clarify that. it's actually a ten page site. and you'll touch on kinda the fundamentalaspects of web development thing like list and hyperlinks,things that we're all familiar with but you'll understand how not only you canuse a message user but what's going on in the backend, what's actuallyhappening when you click a hyperlink. what's a list doing? how does it organize that content? we'll get into all of that.
so to get a really, really solidfoundation in how websites work, and how the web functions,and we'll talk a little bit about production processesbecause that's also very important, having a very efficient method bywhich you develop these things. it's one of those things that if you don'thave a process it can take hours, and it can get really frustrating. and that's where a lotof people break down. but having a solid process i think reallydoes help help people make sense of that and help it be an efficient process.
now the second class here is webprogramming with javascript. this is where we begin to introducedynamic content into webpages. as i mentioned we do sites increating functional websites. javascript allows you to introducedynamic content, meaning something where the user interacts with it on screen andthen gets something from that. so, things like rollovers,clicking buttons and getting things back, form validations, entering a dateinto a box, and having that date be validated as a date yes this isdate, yes this does make sense as a date. kind of very functional things like that.
you'll learn to actually code,again you'll learn the mechanics of how to code with javascript and that'san entirely different style of code and coding process from html and css. again it's just a little bitmore of a dynamic concept. and we'll also learn some debuggingtechniques because that's another important piece of it. but i'll also just emphasize that because we focus on these fundamentalfoundational level, skills and techniques. no programming background is requires.
we don't assume that you haveany previous knowledge at all. so we design this program to take folksfrom literally the ground level, and get them launch into this career. so i just like to focus oremphasize the fact that no previous experience withprogramming is required but you will be doing quite a bit of it inthe javascript class in particular. now this php class iswhere we connect php and we connect a website to a databasethrough server side scripting. we learn about howserver-based files work, how
a website interacts with the browser andthe server to feed content to the website. we'll create dynamic graphics using php,there's also some slightly different coding conceptsthat need to be unpacked and talked about. and then we also get into the conceptsof syndication and web services, and how we can get content out tothe places that it needs to be. and this is the database class so as you probably know most modernday websites are database driven. meaning there is a databasein the background actually feeding information to the website.
this class is sort of an introductory look at how to set up those databases andhow to connect them to a website. you create sql statements which is howyou get information from a database, and you can also update values anddelete values on that database. so we'll set up a database,we'll learn how to query it and then we'll connect it to our website andthen here in the capstone course. this is the capstone course for the wholeprogram so it's the last class and it's where everything comes together. asynchronous javascript andxml i referred to earlier.
it really does it's own layers,essentially, that brings all the things that you've talked about sofar, into one seamless experience for the user and it create that highlyinteractive content i was talking about, without having to reload that entire page. so, we've had a couple of students. we've had, actually, five orsix students now finish the program, and i can think of a couple oftheir web applications off the top. one of them was really neat. it had to do with saving snippetsform books that you're reading,
snippets that you can kindof come back to later. and it was just an idea that she had, andshe loves to read, and she kept thinking, this is the passage in a bookthat i could highlight it. but then i lose it,cause it goes with the book. if i could somehowcapture that passage and keep it in this place to refer back to,that would be really useful for me. so she had this idea. she was able to create itfrom the ground up and she's really, really proud of it, andi have to say, we're proud of it too.
it's a really neat project thatis really meaningful to her, [laugh] at the very least, and maybe it'llfind a larger audience, too, out there. who knows? so, you never know what you can do, butif it's something that makes sense to you, chances are it's gonna make a lotof sense to someone else too. now here is the scheduling. this slide kinda showsyou what is offered when. as you can see we've tried to create somepathways through the program starting in spring or fall quarter.
you can really get a seamlesspath through the courses if you can start in those two quarters butif not we've got other classes offered at different times that can let yousync back up with that schedule too. depending on your previous background, or your previous experience with this,i wouldn't suggest trying to take. take two,many of these classes simultaneously. i would really suggest,especially if you're new to the topic, that you go one class at a time. the reason for that is simplythat these courses are meant
to build upon each other, to scaffoldthe concepts toward the final project. so if you take one out of sequence orif you take it kind of along with the one at the same time as theone you were suppose to take before it, you might miss out onthat scaffolding concept. so ideally,this is the way you can take them. but if it's not gonnafit with your schedule, just let us know and we can seewhat else we might be able to do. now this here is a screenshot. so this is a screenshot fromwithin one of our online lectures.
this shows you a little bitabout how the online course kind of unfolds for the student. on the left-hand side you see the menu. you can also see there'sa transcript tab you could click on. so for every class and every lecture there's a written transcriptin addition to the audio lecture. so if you wanted to download thattranscript, say your going on a long plane flight or something and youwanted to take these lectures with you, you could download the transcripts andread along with the slides.
there's interactive contentwithin these slides so you can click on some of these boxes andthey can reveal information. we try and make it asinteractive as possible, but for some things it's just a lecture,it's a multimedia lecture. and this next slide is kinda wherewe call out certain concepts. i wanted to highlight that box,that white box towards the bottom. that box is consistent throughoutall courses in the program, and that's where we deal withcode concepts specifically. so you'll see this box on manydifferent slides calling out specific
coding concepts andmaking that just as clear as we can but you can see there you can click forward orback as much as you want. you've free to view as many of theseslides as many times as you want, and you've got a great deal of freedom withinthe lecture to make it make sense for you. this last slide is where we actuallydemonstrate code being written. so on the left hand side you've gota code and this is a code editor open and the instructor is actually handtyping his code in there and then on the right hand side you can seethat there's a browser open there's actually two browsers there sothat he can test the code in mozilla and
in google chrome because that's kindof an essential step for debugging and making sure that your codeis cross browser functional. so you get a lot, andof course if this were an actual slide, you'd be able to go full screen on thisand be able to see all those little details that are kind of getting washedout but this is another thing students really seem to like is theseexample code demonstrations. so that concludes the web developmentcertificate program information. i'm gonna quickly just touch on ourweb design professional concentration, which is a shorter program orientatedmore towards front end design concepts.
although, you'll see two of the classesare the same as the development program. so, if you'd already takenthe development program, there's only two additional designclasses that you need to take to get this additional professional concentration. a professional concentration is a termwe use for sort of a mini certificate or an abridged certificate. but this is a similar style of program. it was updated recently in 2014. it's all online and asynchronous justlike the web development certificate.
this one has four classes and they all carry academic creditjust like the other program. so this program here, the design pcconsists of creating functional websites and programming with javascript,so those two are the same. and then we have a course on the extendedfeatures of adobe photoshop. so how to create graphics andhow to manipulate images in photoshop, specifically for use on the web. and then we have a web design and production class that is reallyjust top end design concepts.
in this class,we take some of the more beautiful, more modern day websites that we can find. we actually crack them open tolook how they were laid out, and we examine some of those design concepts,and look at what the best practices are, and kind of why things are laidout in certain ways, and again it focuses on webdesign best practices. and here, again,is the scheduling slide for this program. again, we've created tracks that gothrough it so that if you can start in spring or fall, it gives you a prettyseamless pathway through the program.
now, this slide focuses ona regional jobs report an it jobs report that we put together just forinformational purposes for our students. we looked at the required skillsthat employers who are looking for to fill their web development positionswithin the northern california region. so, of course, previous experience withweb development is tops on the list. javascript was second though, and that ifelt was very important to know that most positions require knowledge of javascript. and while html doesn't seemto be highly sought after, i can tell you that that's sort ofjust assumed that you know that,
and php is also, there's other options forwhat php can do. php is the open source version. but other employers might be looking fora slightly different version. but if you understand how server-sidescripting works and how php helps accomplish that, then you can learn any ofthe other languages fairly, fairly easily. and this is the other thingthat was very interesting. it was that non-technical skills again, it's one of those things whereemployers always look for these things but they don't always putthem in the actual job description.
but i can tell you that these four thingswe've highlighted here are things that in my interviews with web developersfrom the region and with our advisors, they all call these things out,communication skills and writing. leadership's great and that'ssomething that certainly if you wanna advance within the shield, you'll needto know a little bit about it, but project management is sort of an everyday concern for a web developer. what you work onare essentially large projects. and having some ability to managethose projects in a seamless way, will really help you standout from the competition.
and sothis slide focuses on who the local, again northern california region,who is hiring for it jobs in the region. you can see that a lot of big,big companies are doing a lot of hiring. intel and hp of course, they're alwayslooking for folks with these skills. sutter health has a lot of need forweb developers. and deloitte is a consulting firm,but this is also stuff that they need. and uc and sac state both havea fairly high number of developers and designers that they employ too. so, your job prospectsare pretty good with this.
i mean, these are not of course the onlyplaces that you can find a job, and web development has seen some reallygood job growth in these recent years, and we expect to in the future too. so, i think in terms of job prospects,this is a great career to get into. and that kind of leads me intothis last slide here which is, the job satisfaction rate forweb developers. there was recently a survey done by thateducational website called skilledup.com. they found that 88% of professional webdevelopers report they are satisfied with their work.
and that is an extremely high number. and also pretty impressiveto me is the fact that only one perfect said they were not atall satisfied with their work. so that to me is a hugeindicator that this is, this is a great career track fora lot of people. the reason's they cite, they're so satisfied of course ofthe work-life balance. the ability to sometimes workfrom home in your own conditions, set your own schedule as long asyou're meeting those work goals, and
that flexibility to work within that. but you should not, don't discount thepretty high salary rates because you can. even entry level positions paypretty well in this industry. and those top end salariesare pretty high indeed, especially considering it doesn't requirea bachelors degree in most cases. so, that is a littlebit about our program. and this is kind ofthe team whose behind it. linda behrens is our department chair. she's the leadership of the department andi'm the program manager.
and marissa perez is ourprogram assistant and she's the one who interactswith most of our students. she's kind of that first point of contact. so, if you have any questions at alli just encourage you to reach out to really any of us, butyou can start with marissa, or i. and we'll do our best to answerany of your questions and make you've got allthe information you need. but, again, i really appreciate youguys joining us for this today and if you've got any questions at this pointplease do type them in to the q and
a box on the right handside of the screen. i see that i've got a few already so i'llgive you just a couple of minutes to type in your questions and then i'll juststart at the top and work my way down. okay, i've got a question here. asking if you have to pay all at once,if you have to pay for the program all at once, and no you don't. each class you can enroll in separately. in fact,i recommend that you do it that way. again, it can be a fivequarter long program.
so, if you paid for them all at once and then at some point decided that ifit wasn't for you, then we'd have sort of a situation we'd have to work outwith a refund, and that could be messy. but i think that going one course ata time makes sense for a lot of people. and we do have, i'll just mention here,we do have discounts for early enrollment. so if you can enroll in the class twoweeks or more before the start date. you get a 10% discount on your enrollment. also people who are affiliated withuc davis alumni cal aggie association or current faculty orstaff also get a discount on enrollments.
so those are the options available to you. i will say we don't typicallyhave financial aid, we don't work with fafsa at extension. but we have a woman named diane carrwho is in charge of our training funds. and so she can oftentimes findopportunities for grants or training fund opportunities. most of the time those are centered aroundmilitary veterans' benefits or disability. so if you think any ofthat might apply to you, i encourage you to reachout to diane carr.
and feel free to,we'll put you in touch with her, if that's something that you'd like to do. so just reach out to marissa or i ifyou'd like to know more about, excuse me, financial aid. okay, here's a questionabout job placement. do you set up internships orhelp with job placement? now we don't have a formalprogram in place for that, but what i try to do is forward any jobpostings that i get onto the students. so i will do that either via the course orwill do that via any of our other
online forums like our facebook page orthings like that. we don't have a formalized system forjob placement in place, but i can tell you that our program advisors are just itchingto hire the top graduates of the program. so, both shana as well as sandrahave told me they would be more than interested in reaching out topeople and having at least an interview. so, essentially what thisprogram is preparatory for is that entry level position or that internship in a larger organizationthat gets your foot in the door. and once you get your foot in the door.
you'll have to learn how thatparticular organization develops, and you'll have to kind of understand that andlearn that. so really i like to point out that at the end of this program it's reallynot when you're learning stops, your learning continues in this professionthe entire time you're doing it. so that's something you justreally do need to be prepared for, that once you wrap up this program,that's when in a sense, the work begins. you then begin learninghow your particular professional environment does business,and you'll have to work within that.
but everybody has to do that, soi think it just makes sense that you start with a really good solid groundingin the foundational aspects of it, and that'll just make it so much easierto just add skills on top of that. ok, so michael here says, while teachingjavascript, will you go in to the new dot js languages that keep popping up,like note, or angular, etc. we do not go in to specific java scriptlibraries in the java script course. we really focus on the mechanics of it,how to use it. but what that does is it preparesyou to use node or angular or any of those javascript libraries,d3.js, there's so many innovative ones.
javascript is really a ubiquitoustechnology these days, you find it on practically every website, stillit's showing no signs of going anywhere. and in fact it's becoming more andmore integrated into different things. like the internet of everything into things that are going on like,at the makers fair. with arguina. javascript is ubiquitous. so we teach the underlyingmechanics of how to code with it. how to program it.
what the logic andthe steps you need to follow are. but we don't get into thosenew languages or frameworks. but we do create an environment thatshould make that really easy for the student to pick those up. now here's a question, would we learn touse word press or some other web platform? now the answer to that is no, that is notcovered in this particular program, but again, we teach those skills thatmake using wordpress a piece of cake. if you if you couldstart with this program, i mean using a wordpress siteactually facilitates and
makes easy a lot of the things that we'reteaching here as a fundamental skill. but having this program under yourbelt will make using wordpress or any of those other ones really,really easy to use. and it'll allow you to do kindasome cutting edge things, things that you might not otherwiseunderstand or be able to do. okay, let's see, discounts, we answered. here's a question. do you keep track of how many peoplewho finish your certificate program, get jobs within a year?
we will be tracking that information. the reason i don't have it yet is because the first graduatingclass graduated last quarter. so i can tell you that a couple of themalready have jobs, but i'll wait until the first year is concluded to giveyou that specific information. but we feel really goodabout the prospects, and the students are really excitedabout what they can do with it. so i feel good there we'regoing to have some exciting information to share aboutthat when the time comes.
okay. fundamental question. what is the cost of the program? each class is $825 standard tuition,and like i said earlier, if you can enroll a little bit earlier,you get a discount on that. a 10% discount for early enrollment. and javier says,i have an employer that would be willing to pay through the coursesthrough tuition reimbursement. would that be acceptable forenrollment in the course?
absolutely. yeah.we have employers pay for their employees to come throughthis program all the time. that's a common way forstudents to take courses, not just in this program butall across extension. so yes absolutely, we can work with youremployer and we make that really easy for them to just cut us a check andget you going. mary asked do you cover responsive design? and we do, we cover it as a concept.
we don't teach, we don't teach html5 indepth, but we do teach what html5 is, we teach html, of course, andthen the ability to convert. so, in other words, you should be able tocreate a responsive site at the end of it, but we don't teach html5 from the get-go. so, that said, that wasn't a verygreat answer to your question. but html5 is included inthe creating functional websites course. and i can just tell youthat by the end of it, two of the web apps i saw were responsive,so i'm fairly sure that that is included. but mary, i can get you a better answeron that, specifically how much, and
where that content comes in the program. so let me do a little more looking andi'll get back to you, if that's okay. let's see. is this course approved for the california state job displacementvocational rehabilitation vouchers? i believe so, but that is again a questionyou'd want to talk to diane carr about. so let's see. i can get her information here. and pass that along.
and i will try to get thatto you before this is over. so in the next couple of minutes. okay, let's see. do you have a forum tocreate study groups? that's an interesting question and i think that we've had someinformal study groups occur. we don't have a forum on our learningmanagement systems for that but we can facilitate it through a googlehangout or any of our other technologies. we use bigbluebutton orother web conferencing.
we have a bunch of differentoptions actually so i'm fairly sure that that'ssomething that we could do. and it sounds like it would bea really valuable tool for students. so, i would certainly bewilling to try that out and to formalize some sort of a program. but i can tell you we don'thave something in the lms, meaning in our learning management system,for outside of class discussions. but we do have discussionforums within the class. so, those discussionsare usually pretty active,
they usually center around a question thatthe teacher has posed around the content. and then students answer kinda back andforth. they can reply to the prompt orthey can reply to each other, and they get a pretty robust discussion going. but [cough] as i say we don't havereally a formal program right now. but that's certainly somethingwe'd be willing to try okay, let's see,mark asked about the data science program. do you have a timeline forwhen that will be created? we have introduction to data sciencealready produced and available,
that's enrollable now. we should have the second course up withina few weeks, excuse me, a few months. so, probably by no later thansummer quarter is my hope. and then after that we hope to follow onwithin the year, with another course or two to have the full program available[cough] within, yeah, within a year. it should be within about a year,we should have a full program available. that would be an entirecertificate program. and it's looking like that's again fivecourses, all of them are required. well that, i think, does it.
thanks again, everybody, for joining me. i hope i was able to answer anyquestions you might have had and give you the information you need. feel free, again,to reach out to marissa or i at anytime. we love talking to perspective studentsand hearing what you're interested in, so if you've got anything you'd likeus to know, please reach out. let's see, barbara. barbara hayes raised her hand,i have acknowledged that but i don't know what that does exactlyto our course, [laugh] so i'm sorry.
but feel free if you've got a,here is diane carr's information. diane is the woman who handlesthe training funds questions for us and any financial aid information. her email address is d-d-c-a-r-r, so ddcarr@ucdavis.edu, and her phone number is 916-327-0007. again, her name is diane carrat uc davis extension. and i just got a note here from my tech support guy that apparentlyraising your hand doesn't do anything.
so barbara if you had a question feelfree to type that in the q&a box and i'll be happy to answer it. okay, here's an interesting question, i actually just got from ericwhich i'd like to address. it says, excuse me, yeah, forsomeone working to step into a new career field like this, how would you rate thiscourse compared to any of the boot camps? now, the boot campsare an interesting concept to me. they are fairly short, intensive,one on one in person programs. i have not personally heard a lot ofpeople having great success with this.
i think it's a great way to get exposedwith things, but it doesn't take you deep, it doesn't spend enough time, frankly,on these foundational concept. and this is really why wedeveloped this program this way. we see that there are otherprograms out there that really wanna get to the cool stuff reallyquickly and what ends up happening for many students is thatthey get left behind. they don't, they can't scaffold,they can't build to the point where they're able to do all that really neatstuff that they were wanting to do and so they wash out.
and we're trying to avoid that, we wannabuild these skills in a ways that's sustainable, that lets people carry themforward into their careers as long as they want and we're getting reallygood success with this approach. so i feel like our approach ofreally focusing on those fundamental foundational aspects and technologies andskills is really gonna pay off. so eric, i hope that answers yourquestion, but again feel free to reach out if you've got any further questions orif you'd like to talk further about it. and kittie asked if we can get a copy ofthe slides to download for reference. and yes, i'll ask marissa to sendout a copy of these slides and
also hopefully a copy of ourregional jobs report that features some of the statistics and stuff that italked about in the presentation today. it's got a lot more depth on a lot ofthose and focuses on a few other things. and here's one more from mark,to piggyback on eric's question, how would compare uc davis extensionto moocs like coursera or edx? that's another very interesting question,a very timely question for us. we are getting into moocs ourselves. we hope to be launching a mooc calledfundamentals of web development, believe it ornot within the next few months.
uc davis signed a partnershipagreement with coursera and se we've been developing moocs forthat platform. and i think moocs are a really, reallygood way to get introduced to a topic. the thing is that there's no interaction. there's truly no student toinstructor one-on-one in a mooc. so you'll get what theycall community tas, who tend to be fairlyknowledgeable about the topic. but they're not able to reallygive you subjective feedback. there's just too many students.
there's tens of thousands, sothey can't do that on a one-on-one basis. so i think it's fine toget introduced to a topic. and if you think, do i like this? is it a good fit for me? is it something that ican get interested in? start with a mooc,i think that's a really good idea. and then if it's somethingthat you want to go deeper in, if it's something that you think okay,i've done what i can with that. now i really need some tangible skills.
i don't think you're gonnawalk away from a mooc, at least a one course mooc with toomuch in the way of tangible skills. you'll have been introducedto a lot of topics but you're ability to use thosethings will be fairly limited. because your ability to practicethem will be fairly limited. and we try and give as many hands-onopportunities for students to really do this work as we can andthat way you know if it's right for you. i mean you'll know right off the bat,do i like to code, can i code? now bear in mind, it's hard at first butonce you get into it,
once you find the groove, a lot ofpeople really like that and they think, this is really for me. i don't think you could find that, i don't think you can get tothat point in a mooc, mark. and so that's what i'm tryingto say is that i think it's okay to get introduced to a topic and moocs are doing a lot to expand accessto education all over the world. but if this is something youwanna do professionally, i don't think a mooc is gonna getyou there, that's my opinion.
so i hope that answeredyour questions gang. and, i don't see anymore,one more question. eric just says thanks. well, you're absolutely welcome gang. and thanks to you for joining us today. so, i'm gonna leave it at that probably,but i'll stay on the line for another few minutes if anybody has anylast minute questions they thought of. so go ahead and type them in ifyou can and if not, thanks for joining us andi hope to see you online soon.
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