Hope for computing education was renewed and reinforced as STEMi Makers Africa, on March 29, collaborated with the Oracle academy to facilitate leveraging oracle cloud solutions for enhanced teaching and learning for tertiary educators in Nigeria. 

Despite the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, the project was coordinated online in a bid to empower tertiary educators and expose them to future-focused solutions and resource tools for their classrooms.

It commenced on the 29th of March March at 9:00 AM WAT and was concluded by 2:00 PM WAT.

The training began with an opening remark from Danny Gooris – Senior manager of Oracle Academy, EMEA. He encouraged educators of the importance and numerous advantages of the Oracle Academy solutions to be integrated into their various tertiary institutions. They were also advised to take advantage of the Oracle platform, which is free and open to all.

The programme moderator, Lorna Juma, welcomed the strategy lead of STEMi Makers Africa, Amanda Obidike, who spoke on empowering educators with emerging computing tools to raise students’ achievement in computing education.

This was followed by Bekere Amassoma, the programme manager, Oracle Academy, Sub-Saharan Africa, who enlightened the educators on Oracle Academy cloud solutions. She also gave a virtual walk-through of all resource tools intended for educators at the end of the training and further offered to provide assistance in resolving sign-ups to the Oracle Academy Cloud platform.

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The second session began at 11:00 AM WAT. Mr. Mutiu Salami facilitated the session. The session was in-depth class on cloud computing, trends, and how educators can leverage the Cloud platform.

Holding the audience spellbound, he gave numerable amount of 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 and so on.

Salami referred taking advantage of these technologies as they were highly in demand in today’s workforce. He gave more briefs on cloud deployments, data visualizations, quantum computing, the benefits, advantages, etc.

The last session was a hands-on workshop training by Salami, which was perfectly delivered. He had an extensive walk-through on the oracle cloud workshop, and the educators were able to make use of it themselves.

On his part, Dr. Samson Olarenwaju, from Osun State University, said: “These days, institutions are leaning on the public cloud to drive innovation with speed and agility. But too often, our students find challenges in getting started with the public cloud, securing and operating a multi-cloud environment, and achieving the true app portability between clouds. Computing science students would need to leverage on the basic ground step in cloud automation and infrastructure”.