iCarnegie's Education Model

iCarnegie's patent-pending dynamic education model ensures tremendous success for our partners, instructors, and students.

This is not your typical distance learning model. Instead, iCarnegie delivers curriculum using an innovative "blended approach" that couples web-based content and data collection with the traditional classroom setting. This results in higher student retention and achievement and an overall more effective program.



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First, industry needs are routinely evaluated and drive the practical focus of iCarnegie's courses. This allows our partners to train students for the workplace, by giving them experience with real-world assignments, documents/templates, tools, and processes. A number of industry advisors contribute to this effort.

Next, course developers at iCarnegie develop and constantly refine our 10-course curriculum program, including course content, assignments, quizzes, and certification exams. That is done with consultation and contributions from Carnegie Mellon faculty and based on feedback from industry, as well as using feedback collected from our partner instructors and student data.

Our web servers provide the curriculum delivery platform, which allows all of our course content to be available to students and instructors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But it does much more: Our proprietary web system allows our course developers to access, analyze, and assess data regarding student performance and instructor grading. With thousands of course instances being delivered globally each quarter, the student results data is valuable feedback that allows us to continuously fine-tune questions, content flow, and other curriculum concerns.

Course mentors provide a unique yet important support role to the partners' instructors in the field. With mentors assigned to specific iCarnegie courses, they are interacting with instructors worldwide to provide advisement on successful course delivery, answer questions, and gather feedback. They know, for example, common challenges that students face on certain assignments and how instructors can be prepared to overcome challenges. They also communicate new course updates to the instructors, and provide valuable follow up support to initial instructor training and orientation.

Education and training partners provide the appropriate classroom instruction to their local student populations. Unlike a pure distance learning model, this interaction allows students to get important feedback and assistance from instructors, which improves their skill development and achievement levels in each course. Instructors benefit by teaching a modern curriculum, thus keeping their skills and knowledge fresh and current without the burden of curriculum maintenance.

iCarnegie's dynamic curriculum delivery model is an approach to education that allows for continuous improvement of course content, assignments, quizzes, and exams. It ensures a consistent, high standard to training students and awarding iCarnegie certifications.