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With the start of school, we're reminded that reading, writing, and arithmetic are the foundations of basic skills-orientated education programs. But in the 21st century, there is a fourth component: information technology and digital literacy. And it's technology education that is at the center...

We're looking for volunteers to help us with the development of a new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)* exam covering mobile development fundamentals. If you've taught introductory mobile development courses in a high school, community college, or other learning environment, we want you!...

We're looking for volunteers to help us with the development of a new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)* exam covering gaming fundamentals. If you've taught introductory Gaming courses in a high school, community college, or other learning environment or have developed games in XNA or other...

Visit the Microsoft Learning YouTube channel to check out some of the new playlists now available. They include: Visual Studio 2010 – The Best Path from Ideas to Solutions . Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 helps simplify the entire development lifecycle, from design to deployment. This playlist describes...

Born to Learn readers are great at staying up to date on new training and certification announcements through the blog, and probably through the MCP or MCT Flash as well. We've recently introduced an additional option: do a deeper dive on these topics by signing up for the Microsoft Learning mailing...

We’ll be opening registration for the following beta exam soon: 70-599 Designing and Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications As with every beta exam, seats are limited. We’ll be using our MSL SME database to recruit for the first round of beta participants. For your best chance of participating...

Have you joined the special offers and updates mailing list from Microsoft Learning? Here's a good reason to sign up soon: In addition to announcements about exclusive deals and the latest training and certification resources, if you sign up by February 28, 2011 we'll give you free access to...

Are you connected to all of the ways Microsoft Learning distributes new and special offers? If you like having news sent to your email inbox, we've compiled several of your options on one handy page. Choose from the Microsoft Learning mailing list, the MCP News Flash, practice Microsoft Certification...

Microsoft Learning is happy to announce the launch of the first 5 Certification Drill apps to help you prepare for your Microsoft Certification Exam. These apps allow you to test your knowledge and practice for their associated exams. You get 100 questions and two testing modes. In study mode, you can...

Born to Learn readers stay up to date on training and certification announcements through this blog, and I'll bet a lot of you also subscribe to the MCP and/or MCT Flash newsletters for program-specific news. Now you can get additional and in-depth information about our products, services, and special...

I've blogged about OneNote Trainer Packs (OTPs) before, and one of the questions that comes up frequently is: Will they be available for new courses? The answer is yes! Today we have released eight new OneNote Trainer Packs, which brings our total to 40 (see below for the list). Our current goal...

Back in July, we put together 12 hours worth of live training on Windows Phone 7 that over 1,000 of you attended. We then released it in August as a series of videos to get you up to speed on all you needed to know for Windows Phone 7 application development. As it turns out, a few things have changed...

In case you missed the news, Windows Phone 7 cleared its last big milestone and has been released to manufacturing. Not only that, but the final version of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools will be available on September 16. In the meantime, check out local boot camp training events (free!) or watch...

Just a few weeks ago, Microsoft hosted Windows Phone 7 Jump Start , a free training event on how to develop awesome apps and games for Windows Phone 7. It was a great success with around 1,000 developers participating in 12 hours of demos, labs, and good ol' fashion fun. (We even gave away an executive...

Just a couple days ago, I blogged about the release of more OneNote Trainer Packs (OTPs) but also hinted at more news coming soon. If you thought OTPs were a good way to prepare for a course, then you might want to participate in our latest pilot that takes this concept to the next level. Here are the...

Greetings, Born to Learners! A little over a month ago, Microsoft Learning (re) released OneNote Trainer Packs (OTPs) for 20 titles with the promise of 12 more being made available in June. Those 12 are now ready and available for all you MCTs out there. The 12 now available are 6425B, 6236A, 6292A,...

Eighteen months ago, Microsoft Learning released beta OneNote Trainer Packs for 7 courses as part of an effort to test if consolidating MCT prep materials was a worthy endeavor. The answer came back from MCTs: yes, if done thoroughly. So that’s what we did. It’s my pleasure to announce that...

Given that Valentine’s Day came and went over the weekend, I thought I’d send a little Valentine out to all of our friends on Born to Learn, celebrating our beloved readers. (Please forgive the complete lack of flowery prose. There’s a reason that I don’t work for Hallmark!) O B2L community! How do I...

Exam 70-579 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a technical specialist (TS) exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills configuring Windows Mobile 6.5 devices. . A qualified candidate for this exam possesses a deep and broad understanding of managing and configuring the user...

Exam 70-663 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Professional exam designed for candidates who are responsible for the Exchange messaging environment in an enterprise environment. Candidates for this exam are responsible for the planning and deployment of the Exchange servers in an...