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Amazon ramps up AWS Educate with free e-learning and job ads | TechCrunch
Amazon expands e-learning curriculum to include identifying candidates who are skilled in Amazon cloud services then candidates can post those newly found skills via digital badge or certificate. Educators do not need a computer science degree just the curiosity to implement the AWS curriculum in the traditional or online classroom. No registration fees or books all content sponsored by Jeff Bezos and the amazing people at Amazon.
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would start to offer free online courses and other learning modules; and alongside that, those modules would align with a new service where AWS advertises jobs from across the industry in a new AWS Educate Job Board.
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To start with, AWS Educate will feature 25 modules, referred to as “Cloud Career Pathways,” that Amazon said will include videos, lab exercises, online courses, whitepapers, and podcasts
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Completing these, in turn, will give the user “digital micro-credentials in the form of badges and certificates that appear on their AWS Educate profile,” AWS says.
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Amazon says that since launching AWS Educate in May 2015, some 500 institutions have signed on to use it
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“We built AWS Educate with a vision of helping to cultivate a cloud-enabled workforce. It’s been inspiring to see students from every corner of the globe
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“Based on that vision, we are taking the program one step further and adding a connection to employers who are in need of the cloud skills students can learn on AWS Educate.
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We’ve designed Cloud Career Pathways that will help students get targeted experience and skills, and placed those side-by-side with relevant jobs from some of the most in-demand technology employers today.
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Udacity helped design AWS Educate’s Cloud Career Pathways by providing over 30 courses that align to the job families, the company said. “These courses are applicable to some of the most in-demand fields today,
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