A non-governmental organisation (NGO), STEMi Makers Africa, has recently collaborated with Oracle Academy to train 50 Nigerian lectures on computing education.
The virtual training was tagged ‘Leveraging Oracle cloud solutions for enhanced teaching and learning for tertiary educators in Nigeria.’
The training was aimed at empowering tertiary educators and exposing them to future-focused solutions and resource tools for their classrooms.
The founder of the NGO, Amanda Obidike, said she was happy the training held despite the ongoing national strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
She stated that since 2019, they have been training computing educators in Nigeria and around Africa through their partners.
Obidike said they were excited that computer science educators, at all stages of their computing journey, have embraced this platform — from teachers just moving into the field, to experienced educators looking for a refresher so they can better support their colleagues and students.
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“Thanks to supporting from Oracle Academy,” Obidike said. “All these resource tools are free for secondary and tertiary educators.
In his remarks, the senior manager of Oracle Academy, Danny Gooris, encouraged the educators to embrace the numerous advantages of Oracle Academy solutions and platforms, which are free and open to all, and integrate them into their various tertiary institutions.
The program manager of Oracle Academy for sub-Saharan Africa, Bekere Amassoma, orientated the educators on Oracle cloud solutions. She also gave a virtual walk-through of all resource tools intended for the educators.
Amassoma offered to provide assistance in resolving sign-ups to the Oracle Academy cloud platform.
The program moderator, Lorna Juma, spoke on empowering educators with emerging computing tools to raise students’ achievement in computing education.
Mutiu Salami facilitated the second session, which was an in-depth class on cloud computing trends and how educators can leverage the cloud platform.
He enumerated on users’ data and accurate statistics on big techs, and how they get user data through cloud computing. He also did a walk-through on high-demanding jobs in the cloud solutions environment — including the cloud architect, cloud engineering, etc.
Salami stressed on taking advantage of these technologies as they are highly in demand in today’s workforce.
Dr Samson Olarenwaju, from Osun State University, stated that these days, institutions are leaning on public cloud to drive innovation with speed and agility.
However, he lamented that often, students find it challenging in obtaining, securing and operating a multi-cloud environment.
“Computing science students would need to leverage the basic steps in cloud automation and infrastructure,” Olarenwaju said.
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