AWS adds cloud-related learning for AWS Educate

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced cloud-related learning capabilities for AWS Educate, a global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources they need to accelerate learning.

AWS Educate now offers students a more direct way to put their cloud knowledge to use with over 25 self-paced content modules known as "Cloud Career Pathways" which are made up of instructional videos, lab exercises, online courses, whitepapers and podcasts.

The Cloud Career Pathways align to four overarching job families, which are also represented in the new AWS Educate Job Board: Cloud Architect, Software Developer, Operations-Support Engineer, and Analytics and Big Data Specialist.

AWS Educate maps students’ academic training on AWS Educate, and their achievements in the Cloud Career Pathways to relevant internships and jobs posted on the AWS Educate Job Board, which features top employers, including Amazon, Cloudnexa, Instructure, Salesforce, Splunk, Udacity and more.

"We built AWS Educate with a vision of helping to cultivate a cloud-enabled workforce. It's been inspiring to see students from every corner of the globe - from Brooklyn to Bombay to Singapore to Seoul - embrace AWS Educate, eager to digest learnings from top computer science courses, and get their hands on their first Amazon S3 bucket," said Teresa Carlson, vice president, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS.

"We've designed Cloud Career Pathways that will help students get targeted experience and skills, and placed those side-by-side with relevant jobs from some of the most in-demand technology employers today," added Carlson.

Each Cloud Career Pathway includes a minimum of 30 hours of content designed to build core skill sets across four job families. After students successfully complete Cloud Career Pathways, they receive digital micro-credentials in the form of badges and certificates that appear on their AWS Educate profile, which students can leverage on their own job applications.

Students can apply directly to relevant jobs posted on the AWS Educate Job Board, which features cloud internships and jobs from some of the top technology companies.

At Carnegie Mellon University, Dr Majd Sakr’s cloud computing course uses AWS Educate, and has grown from a few dozen students in 2013, to several hundred students in 2016.

Udacity is an online education company with a mission to bring accessible, affordable, and highly effective learning to the world. Udacity helped design AWS Educate’s Cloud Career Pathways by providing over 30 courses that align to the job families. “We’re thrilled to make Udacity courses available to students via AWS Educate Cloud Career Pathways,” said Zhalisa Clarke, VP of Business Development at Udacity.

Instructure, a learning management system (LMS) company, is using the AWS Educate Job Board to recruit employees.

Since May 2015, AWS Educate has provided over 500 institutions with access to cloud computing training, tools, and technologies. The new AWS Educate capabilities are available to students in the United States, India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and China at launch.