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One Flew Over the Hackers Nest...

Kaido Kikkasassociate professor
Estonian Information Technology CollegeNovember 24, 2016

A facility of applied higher education (new university)

Owned by HITSA (IT Foundation for Education)

State-funded places similar to public universities

1045 students, 698 of those state-funded

57 academics, 12 in-house and 45 visiting

20 other staff

At a glance: Estonian IT College

The Estonian-language curricula cover the life cycle of an IT system:Systems analysis

Development

Administration (maintenance)

In addition, there is the English-language curriculum of Cyber Security Engineering

Three study modes: day/regular, evening, distance

Studies

Small and focused on one area of expertise

Orientation to real-life problems

Majority of visiting lecturers (banks, industry, businesses, also other universities)

Flat hierarchy and informal communication

Plurality of systems and platforms, a number of different certification programmes (currently Cisco, Oracle, MS, LPI)

All diploma defense events public with webcast, with online questions allowed (currently over Skype text chat)

Features

All labs at least dual-boot (currently Ubuntu 16.04 + Windows 10), triple-boot in the Apple lab

Significant share of Linux users among academic staff

Robotics Club and hackerspace

Media Club

Student Bar events

Jokes and pranks, MIT-style (e.g. April 1 press releases)

Hackers Nest

I do not know where the ITC graduates are. But I do know where they are not. Its the employment agency.
- Linnar Viik

Can you really dress like THAT at work?
- an Ukrainian academic visiting ITC

ITC has those guys who want to learn and know exactly what they want thats why they get all those great internships and jobs.
- Mari, a student of Tallinn University (in a course chat)

Some memorable quotes

Estonian version of Brian May @ ITC (2011)

Thank you!

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