Tuesday, 23 April 2013

The Oracle Academy

The Oracle Academy and Curriki are working together to make the Oracle
            Academy's "Getting Started with Java Using Alice" curriculum widely
            available to secondary school teachers and students.
       Java is one of the world's most popular computing platforms. It is
            used by more than 9 million developers and powers more than 3 billion
            devices worldwide. The Oracle Academy provides education institutions
            a complete Java curriculum that can be incorporated into secondary
            school and college/university computer science programs.

    Alice is a free platform from Carnegie Mellon University designed to
            teach students object-oriented programming by engaging them in
            something fun -- making animated movies and games. By dragging and
            dropping graphic tiles that contain standard Java programming
            statements, students create programs to animate 3-D objects that
            populate a virtual world. They can run their programs immediately and
            see the relationship between the programming statements and the
            behavior of objects in their animations.
       
        The Oracle Academy-Curriki Collabor

  The Oracle Academy provides a complete portfolio of software,
            curriculum, hosted technology, faculty training, support, and
            certification resources to secondary and higher education institutions
            for teaching use. The Oracle Academy supports over 1.9 million
            students in 97 countries.

  Curriki is a non-profit K-12 global community where teachers,
            students, and parents can create, share, and find free and open
            educational resources that enable personalized learning. Curriki has
            more than 335,000 subscribed members and reaches 8 million users
            across 193 countries. It provides more than 46,000 primary, secondary,
            and teacher training resources across all subject areas, but with a
            particular focus on K-12 science, technology, engineering and math
            (STEM).
  The Oracle Academy's Java curriculum includes four courses (Getting
            Started with Java Using Alice, Creating Java Programs with Greenfoot,
            Java Fundamentals, and Java Programming) that are aligned to Oracle
            certification and the US Advanced Placement Computer Science A exam.
            The Getting Started with Java Using Alice curriculum engages students
            with little or no programming experience to learn basic Java
            programming concepts.
       
   Supporting Quote

           oracle works to advance education with state-of-the-art technology
            programs that awaken and deepen students' interest in computer science
            and engineering," said Alison Derbenwick Miller, Vice President,
            Oracle Academy. "Our Getting Started with Java Using Alice curriculum
            is designed to help students explore the power of computer
            programming. By collaborating with Curriki, we hope to deliver this
            introductory Java course to hundreds of thousands of teachers and
            students worldwide."
  "Computer science and heuristic thinking are the foundations of our
            information and technology-based society," said Kim Jones, CEO,
            Curriki. "We are thrilled that Oracle is helping to foster a new
            generation of software developers and problem solvers to face the
            pressing challenges of the twenty-first century by releasing this
            course on Java through Curriki. We look forward to ongoing
            collaboration with Oracle Academy in the future."
   "In classrooms around the world, Alice software has engaged students
            in computer programming, demonstrating that it can be creative and
            fun," said Wanda Dann, Director of the Alice Project at Carnegie
            Mellon University. "We are excited that this learning experience will
            be expanded to far more students, thanks to the efforts of the Oracle
            Academy and Curriki."
    Supporting Resource
         Oracle Academy and Curriki Alice
         Oracle Academy:
         Getting Started With Java Using Alice
         Connect with the Oracle Academy on Facebook and on Twitter
       
 About Curriki A non-profit organization, Curriki is the leading K-12 global community for teachers, students and parents to create, share, and find open learning resources that improve teacher effectiveness and student outcomes. A Computerworld Honors Laureate for 2012, Curriki was selected as the 21st Century Achievement Award winner for Digital Access. With more than 335,000 members and 46,000+ learning assets, Curriki reaches more than 8 million users worldwide. Join today www.curriki.org.

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About the Oracle Academy The Oracle Academy provides a complete portfolio of software, curriculum, hosted technology, faculty training, support, and certification resources to secondary and higher education institutions for teaching use. Faculty can insert these resources into computer science and business programs, ensuring that students gain industry-relevant skills prior to entering the workforce. The Oracle Academy supports over 1.9 million students in 97 countries. To learn more, visit http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/citizenship/education/academy/index.html.

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