Recent Posts by Jane Richardson

On November 18-19, 2019, Oracle Academy attended for the first time the EdEX MENA  education conference in Dubai. I was delighted to see more than 1,000 educators attend the event and show a great interest in the Oracle Academy program.  I had the opportunity to present at the EdTech Leaders seminar and share the findings of the latest report on the importance of computing education for the next generation: Beyond Tech: The Rising Demand for IT Skills in Non-Tech Industries.  The r...

The picturesque Croatian city on the mouth of river Krka, Šibenik, is known for its beautiful Renaissance cathedral of St. James (pictured) as well as for being the oldest native Croatian city on the Adriatic coast. The city hosted from November 6-8, 2019, the 21st CARNET Users Conference, supported and sponsored again this year by Oracle Academy.  Known for two decades simply as “CUC” this event, organized by the Croatian Academic and Research Network (or CARNET), has grown into...

I was delighted to attend the first ever Oracle Academy Faculty Day hosted by the Higher College of Technology (HCT), Muscat, Oman, on November 21, 2019. More than 100 participants from different colleges and universities attended the event, as well as participants from the Ministry of Manpower, the Bank Dhofar, the Public Authority for Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Health, the DGHS, and the Ministry of Legal Affairs.  I had the opportunity to speak on the subject of “Advancin...

The new wave of technological advancements such as cloud computing, automation and artificial intelligence continue to reshape economies and industries both domestically and around the world. As technology allow companies to hand over increasingly sophisticated tasks to machines, ensuring that students have the necessary digital skills to carry into the future workforce is much more important than in the past. While technological progress affect traditional jobs, it also...

The picturesque Croatian city on the mouth of river Krka, Šibenik, is known for its beautiful Renaissance cathedral of St. James as well as for being the oldest native Croatian city on the Adriatic coast. The city hosted from November 6-8, 2019, the 21st CARNET Users Conference, supported and sponsored again this year by Oracle Academy.  Known for two decades simply as “CUC” this event, organized by the Croatian Academic and Research Network (or CARNET), has grown into the...

I was delighted to attend the second EduTech Africa Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 9 -10, 2019. This event brought together educators, MOE representatives, and educational NGOs from all over the African regions. The conference had the endorsement of the Department of Basic Education of South Africa. Oracle Academy was pleased to have a booth at the event to showcase our free educational classroom resources to the many attendees, who were interested in...

SPŠE Ječná was founded in the 19th century as the first vocational school in the territory of the Bohemian part of Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In 1949, the school was renamed to the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering in Prague  (SPŠE Ječná). Seventy years later, more than 550 students ages 15-21 are enrolled in four-year courses in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. Some 250 of the students attend Oracle Academy technology courses, taught by nine of SPŠE...

The Sixth Annual ACM-W Conference in Rome, WomENcourage, was formally opened by the Minister for Equal Opportunities and Families, Elena Bonetti, and over September 16-18, 2019, Oracle Academy was pleased to support women in computing through our sponsorship of and participation in this event. Oracle Academy Program Manager Roberta Battagli, (pictured) was there to share information on our educational resources in Java, database, artificial intelligence and machine learning. WomENc...

Oracle Academy Sponsors Enterface’19 Summer Workshop in Ankara To encourage collaboration in research and development, this summer Oracle Academy took part in eNTERFACE’19 summer workshop, hosted by the Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, from July 8 - August 2, 2019.  The eNTERFACE summer workshops, organized by the SIMILAR European Network of Excellence, are a new type of workshop that aims at establishing a tradition of collaborative,...