On another great week of Oracle Academy Tech Chat podcast season three, host Tyra Crockett Peirce, Oracle Academy Senior Manager, North America, chats with Victor Stachura, adjunct faculty, University of Buffalo. As a teaching professional and Principal Architect at Oracle, Stachura connects with Tyra to discuss the importance of students learning cloud while enrolled in university. Stachura discusses the significance of teaching career-relevant skills in cloud computing and how it can greatly impact student success, especially upon graduation as they seek fulfilling careers.
Additionally, Tyra and Stachura converse about the ease of setting up cloud software and how it differs from on-premises downloads. This advantage with the Oracle Academy Cloud Program lowers the barrier to entry for institutions, faculty and students, as cloud resources are more easily attainable. With the Oracle Academy Cloud Program, educators and their students can teach, learn, explore, build, and develop in the cloud, free of charge. The program provides access to Oracle Cloud Free Tier to Oracle Academy Institutional members―with easy signup and one-time classroom setup, with no maintenance needed.
Educators can use the cloud for classroom teaching and learning to prepare students to become tomorrow’s technology innovators and leaders. Member educators and their students can access always-free Oracle Autonomous Database, Compute Virtual Machines (VM), object storage, data egress, and other essential building blocks needed to create applications on top of Oracle Autonomous Databases.
On this episode of the podcast, Stachura highlights how hands-on work in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can advance student’s knowledge and skills with career-relevant experience.
Additionally, he mentions that when students learn Java, this new language can bring forth new talents and expertise that students can then take right to industry upon graduation. To help students advance object-oriented programming skills in Java, Oracle Academy offers Java curriculum. With this curriculum, students engage in hands-on learning in Java and also develop problem-solving, collaboration, and critical-thinking skills to help them advance in computing across industries.
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