Innovators of tomorrow: Oracle Academy breathes life into IT education | #OOW
by Bev Terrell | Sep 20, 2016
By providing a strong technology training background to students around the world, Oracle Academy is making an investment in the future of IT, as well as providing its students with the tools they will need for the technological jobs of the future that have not even been invented yet.
Alison Derbenwick, VP of Oracle Academy at Oracle, joined and Peter Burris (@plburris) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Derbenwick talked about the role that Oracle Academy is playing in the world of IT education.
How Oracle Academy serves its students
Oracle Academy is Oracle’s flagship education initiative, supporting more than 3.1 million students in 110 countries. The Academy has grown by 300 percent in the past five years, proving its usefulness in training its students for a life of working with computers every single day.
“Technology has become ubiquitous in our world … [all of us] will use a computer going forward in [our] daily [lives],” said Derbenwick.
Vellante made the point that an increasing number of women have joined the computer technology field, both as students and as employees, and asked Derbenwick how that affects Oracle Academy. “Women are actually more focused on what they’re going to do when they get out of school, and there are a lot of jobs going unfilled in the computer industry,” said Derbenwick-. She also said that girls are being brought up differently today, and are being encouraged — rather than discouraged — to pursue a career in computer technology.
Jobs that have yet to be invented
Derbenwick said the tech field needs students who know computation thinking. They also need to know how to learn and how to love learning. “They are the innovators of tomorrow,” Derbenwick said. Rather than just thinking in the terms of training for just one job that an individual will have for all of their life, the teachers at Oracle Academy encourage students to think of themselves as life-long learners.
#oow16
#theCUBE
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Innovators of tomorrow: Oracle Academy breathes life into IT education | #OOW
by Bev Terrell | Sep 20, 2016
By providing a strong technology training background to students around the world, Oracle Academy is making an investment in the future of IT, as well as providing its students with the tools they will need for the technological jobs of the future that have not even been invented yet.
Alison Derbenwick, VP of Oracle Academy at Oracle, joined and Peter Burris (@plburris) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Derbenwick talked about the role that Oracle Academy is playing in the world of IT education.
How Oracle Academy serves its students
Oracle Academy is Oracle’s flagship education initiative, supporting more than 3.1 million students in 110 countries. The Academy has grown by 300 percent in the past five years, proving its usefulness in training its students for a life of working with computers every single day.
“Technology has become ubiquitous in our world … [all of us] will use a computer going forward in [our] daily [lives],” said Derbenwick.
Vellante made the point that an increasing number of women have joined the computer technology field, both as students and as employees, and asked Derbenwick how that affects Oracle Academy. “Women are actually more focused on what they’re going to do when they get out of school, and there are a lot of jobs going unfilled in the computer industry,” said Derbenwick-. She also said that girls are being brought up differently today, and are being encouraged — rather than discouraged — to pursue a career in computer technology.
Jobs that have yet to be invented
Derbenwick said the tech field needs students who know computation thinking. They also need to know how to learn and how to love learning. “They are the innovators of tomorrow,” Derbenwick said. Rather than just thinking in the terms of training for just one job that an individual will have for all of their life, the teachers at Oracle Academy encourage students to think of themselves as life-long learners.
#oow16
#theCUBE
