Friday 3 February 2017/ Oracle Academy, BiASC and NASC will co-operate in digitizing the world of education
On Friday 3 February 2017, BiASC and NASC are announcing a Benelux wide co-operation to provide educational support to non-commercial educational organisations in the domains of Java & SQL Programming, information management, cloud & big data.
BiASC and NASC will function as go-betweens in the Benelux between Oracle and educational institutions.
"In the first stage of co-operation our focus will be on JAVA & Information Management: data modelling, data science, structured and unstructured information, transactional databases, cloud and big data lakes", says Yvan Rooseleer, senior educational consultant at BiASC in Brussels.
“At Oracle Academy, we are thrilled to inspire and engage students from Belgium and all different parts of the world in computer science,” said Jane Richardson, Oracle Academy Senior Director, EMEA. “Earlier this year, Oracle made a significant commitment to the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition, a multi-stakeholder partnership to bolster computer science (CS) and coding proficiency at all levels within Europe’s workforce EU. Today's partnership announcement with BiASC continues our momentum to advance digital education and increase diversity in technology fields in Europe.”
“Digitally skilled professionals are critical to the Belgium's competitiveness and capacity for innovation,” said Jan Ronsse, Managing Director Oracle Belgium and Luxembourg. “Over the last ten years, we’ve seen the demand for students with computer science and coding skills grow by year by year. Oracle Academy’s efforts to bring computer science into classrooms through collaboration with BiASC in Belgium can help strengthen our educators’ skills and learning to allow them to take that knowledge into the classroom and engage students in the digital economy.”
The following are offered to educational institutions who join Oracle Academy
- Oracle Academy self-study courses in Alice and Greenfoot, educational Java development environments
- Workshops in a Box for Alice and Greenfoot, which provide everything you need to introduce students to object-oriented programming in workshop or extracurricular environments
- Software licenses for your personal learning use, via the Oracle Technology Network
- Data Science Bootcamps, video-based lecture series to introduce and provide hands on practice with data science and Big Data in the context of real-world problems
- Oracle Academy Ask the Oracle Experts interactive webcast series on a variety of technology-related topics
- Licenses for Oracle’s industry leading software for use in teaching and not-for-profit course- or degree-related research
- Standards-aligned academic curriculum in Java, database design, and SQL and PL/SQL programming
- Professional development opportunities to help you teach Oracle Academy curriculum
- Discounts on Oracle University courses, Oracle industry certification exams and preparation materials and Oracle Press Books for you and your students
About Oracle Academy
As Oracle’s flagship philanthropic educational program, Oracle Academy advances computer science education globally to drive knowledge, innovation, skills development, and diversity in technology fields, offering a free and complete portfolio of software, curriculum, hosted technology, faculty trainings, support, and certification resources. Supporting more than 3.1 million students annually in 110 countries, the program works with public and private partners to provide the tools educators need to engage, inspire and prepare students to become innovators and leaders of the future. Through Oracle Academy, students receive hands-on experience with the latest technologies, helping to make them college and career ready in the era of big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and beyond.
About BiASC
Biasc was established in 2013, at the request of global IT vendor Cisco, to enable communication and co-operation with the Belgian ICT education sector. Since then BiASC has been expanding and started co-operation with other global IT vendors who have an interesting offering for IT education. BiASC is an independent and non-commercial organization serving as a network for ICT education in Belgium. BiASC also promotes international co-operation and works with sister organizations like NASC (nl), PUE (es) and IT Bildungsnetz (de). More information: http://biasc.be/contact/
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