Recent Posts by Jane Richardson

Oracle Academy in Croatia contributed to the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Java programming language in collaboration with the Croatian Java Users Association (HUJAK). Java experts delivered an online discussion on May 22, 2020, just a day before the "birthday of Java" and a day after the official Oracle celebration event, "Moved by Java." Representatives of the academic community on the discussion included: Prof. Dragutin Kermek, PhD, Vice Dean at the Faculty of...

Today more than ever, it is important to tap into the innovative and creative energy of our students. In recent years, our young people have shown resilience and creativity in reacting to the challenges of technological change, and they can guide us through future innovations. Stimulating them with challenges and encouraging innovation allows them to open up their minds to develop their needs and expectations. With this in mind, Oracle Academy launched the first Oracle Academy...

The Hungarian Oracle Users Group (HOUG) conference has historically been the largest annual gathering of the Oracle community in Hungary. This year, the conference moved from its traditional, face-to-face mode, usually held in the picturesque city of Siofokin, Hungary, into the Zoom environment. This virtual conference took place April 28-29, 2020. Hosted by Eva Csilla Fazekas, Oracle University Manager, Oracle Hungary, the conference dedicated a whole afternoon to discussing...

It might be a good time to reflect on the outcomes of a 3-year long agreement that Oracle Academy signed with the Ministry of Education Montenegro. Over the three year partnership Oracle Academy committed to train 300 teachers from Montengro, however to date 355 teachers from Montenegro have been successfully trained through the delivery of over 15 training events, thanks to this agreement with Montenegrin Ministry of Education, and their support. The initial trainings were a...

The first Oracle Academy Virtual Educator Day for Italy opened on May 12, 2020, hosted by panelists: Oracle Academy Senior Marketing Manager Orlaith Lawton, based in Dublin Oracle Academy Program Manager, Italy, Roberta Battagli Special guest Claudio Palucci, Oracle Principal Solution Engineer, based in Rome Battagli introduced educators to Oracle Academy’s free resources to teach and learn computing. This includes curriculum centered around Java and database,  learning resources,...

On April, 20, 2020, Saudi Arabian Oracle Academy educator members had the opportunity to attend a live webinar, First Hyperscale Cloud in Saudi Arabia is Here. Cloud Platform expert Nizar Al Toraif let educators know that the wait to move to the cloud is over. Oracle has been deploying its generation 2 cloud infrastructure in data center regions across the world to ensure application availability. He explained that  low-latency and high-bandwidth interconnect enables...

The National Open University of Nigeria is a federal open and distance learning institution, the first of its kind in the West African sub-Sahara region. It is Nigeria's largest tertiary institution in terms of student numbers, and is popularly referred to as 'NOUN'. On May 12, 2020, a collaboration between NOUN and Oracle Academy was launched via a virtual video conference. In attendance were: NOUN Vice Chancellor Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu The Federal Ministry of Education,...