Program helps reduce skills gap by helping students gain
in-demand, career-ready business and cloud technology
knowledge
AUSTIN,
Texas, Nov. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
announced today that Pennsylvania's State System of Higher
Education (PASSHE) will offer Oracle Academy technology education
curriculum and teaching and learning resources across its 14
campuses, which serve 82,000 students. This initiative will help
the system equip students with vital skills in cloud, software
development, and business applications. Through this
collaboration, PASSHE will gain access to free cloud resources
including the Oracle Academy Cloud Program, Oracle APEX, and Oracle
NetSuite. Oracle Academy will also offer professional development
opportunities to support educators.
With the Oracle Academy resources provided to PASSHE faculty and
staff, students enrolled in PASSHE will be able to develop hands-on
experience and an in-depth understanding of critical industry
skills around data science, artificial intelligence, application
development, and more. The PASSHE faculty will be able to embed
Oracle Academy learning resources into their courses to help
students learn, build, and explore with the latest Oracle
technologies.
"By working with Oracle Academy, PASSHE can provide students
with the tools they need to innovate, collaborate, and problem
solve," said William McCabe, vice
president, Oracle Academy. "This approach not only empowers their
learning experiences but also equips them with the adaptability and
tech-savvy crucial for success in the workforce."
As a member of Oracle Academy, all PASSHE campuses will gain
free access to a wide range of computing tools for teaching and
learning, including:
- Oracle Academy Cloud Program: Access to Oracle
Autonomous Database and Compute Virtual Machines (VM)
through Oracle Cloud Free Tier, as well as 3,500 hours of free
cloud credits annually for emerging technologies, infrastructure,
database, application development and more.
- Oracle APEX: Access to Oracle APEX for
hands-on practice in the cloud on a low-code/no-code development
platform that enables users to build scalable, secure enterprise
apps, with world-class features, that can be deployed anywhere.
- Oracle NetSuite: Access to NetSuite and
NetSuite OneWorld software as a service (SaaS) solutions to provide
students with practical, hands-on business computing experience in
enterprise resource planning (ERP), sales and marketing, ecommerce,
supply chain, and more.
- Curriculum and Learning Resources: Access to
career-relevant curriculum and learning modules in Java, database,
and project management. Courses include Artificial Intelligence
with Machine Learning in Java, Application Development Foundations,
and Oracle Primavera P6 Professional Project Management
Fundamentals.
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of
applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at oracle.com.
About Oracle Academy
Oracle Academy, Oracle's global
philanthropic educational program, is open to educators around the
world to advance technology education, skills, innovation, and
diversity and inclusion. We offer academic institutions and their
educators free teaching and learning resources―including
curriculum, cloud, software, and professional development―that help
them prepare students with knowledge, hands-on practice, and
career-relevant skills.
https://academy.oracle.com/en/oa-web-overview.html
About PASSHE
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher
Education (PASSHE) was established in 1983 with a mission to
provide high-quality education at the lowest possible cost to the
82,000 students enrolled across 14 campuses.
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registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. NetSuite was the first
cloud company—ushering in the new era of cloud computing.
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