Amazon ramps up AWS Educate with free e-learning and job placement services Amazons ambitions to go deeper into the education market are crossing over into another interesting opportunity for the tech giant: online recruitment and job hunting. Today the e-commerce companys AWScloud services division announced that AWS Educate originally launchedlast year as a resource library (and promotional platform) forstudents andeducators to use AWS more would start to offer online courses and other learning modules; and alongside that those modules would align with a new service where AWSadvertises jobs from across the industry in a newAWS Educate Job Board. For those familiar with the work that LinkedIn is doing to bring together its Lynda.com online education acquisition with its own recruitment business as well as the efforts that it is making in emerging markets like India to offer online training and job placement itseems like AWS Educatecould potentially be viewed as a competitor. Tellingly AWS Educate is launching first in the U.S. as well asIndia Singapore South Korea Japan and China. To start with AWS Educate will feature 25 modules referred to as Cloud Career Pathways that Amazon said will include videoslab exercises online courses whitepapers and podcasts. Altogether there will be at least 30 hours of training each in four professional areas: Cloud Architect Software Developer Operations-Support Engineer and Analytics and Big Data Specialist. Completing these in turn will give the user digital micro-credentials in the form of badges and certificates that appear on their AWS Educate profile AWS says. And AWS will link the learner up with relevant jobs being posted from companies that includeCloudnexa Instructure Salesforce Splunk Udacity and (naturally) Amazon itself. Amazon says that since launching AWS Educate in May 2015 some 500 institutions have signed on to use it; AWSdoesnt disclose numbers of individuals using the resources. However for a company whose whole business model is predicated on scale it seems that its now keen to bring those numbers up sweetening the deal with job placement opportunities when you complete a course. We built AWS Educate with a vision of helping to cultivate a cloud-enabled workforce. Its 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 saidTeresa Carlson WP Worldwide Public Sector AWS in a statement. Based on that vision we are taking the program one step further and adding a connection to employers who are in need of the cloud skills students can learn on AWS Educate. Weve 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. The idea is also to build AWSs B2B credentials and relationships: the company for example is not only posting job openings from Udacity but it is sourcing content from it as well. Udacity helped design AWS Educates Cloud Career Pathways by providing over 30 courses that align to the job families the company said. These courses are applicable to some of the most in-demand fields today said Zhalisa Clarke VP of Business Development at Udacity. The mission of AWS Educate perfectly aligns with our belief that education and lifelong learning is a basic human right and we look forward to working with AWS to make STEM content available to more students around the world. I have sent questions to Amazon about how the modules are priced and whether it charges companies to post their recruitment ads. The company doesnt really make this clear on the site itself. Signing up for a basic AWS Educate account appears to be free. Offering services for free that might cost something elsewherewould align with how Amazon approaches a lot of new services: either at a very low or no price to bring in more users who either represent a sizeable sizeable revenue opportunity in aggregate or lead to the potentialof paying for other goods and servicesdown the line. Indeed this is how Amazon has approached other moves into the education space: earlier this year it launched Amazon Inspire an online platform for education resources. While Inspire is completely free to use it helps bring educators to Amazons platform in hopes of them spending money in other areas of its business includingWhispercast for managing e-books textbooks and educational apps; AWS access to schools students and teachers; Kindle direct publishing for education; School Lists and Amazon Business to buysupplies; and physical products like the Kindle e-reader and the Fire tablet. Lets block ads! (Why?) – Repost from: techcrunch Post – New Upgrade !! [V 1.5.3] U can download IT app for android from bit.ly/ITapp-v153
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