The Ministry of Education is working along with AICTE and Amazon Web Services (AWS) with an aim to impart cloud computing and machine learning (ML) skills to higher education students in India.
Dr. Buddha Chandrashekhar, Chief Coordinating Officer, AICTE, stated that, the Digital skilling on future technologies at a national scale is a key priority for the Ministry of Education. He further stated that skilling the students in cloud computing and machine learning is especially crucial to not only ensure employability for our students, but also to build capacity in these critical skills that will define the industries of tomorrow.
Mr. Sunil PP, Lead—Education, Space and Non-profits, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, AWS India and South Asia, stated that AWS recognizes this as a national priority, and today’s announcement of the MoU with the Ministry of Education and AICTE is part of the continued commitment to support the government in developing India’s technology talent and strengthening the country’s digital economy.
He further added that under this programme the AWS will provide access to all the students to the AWS Educate. AWS Educate is an online platform for self-paced online cloud learning resources and labs that are designed to help people learn, practice and evaluate cloud skills. The platform guides the students to targeted training content based on their knowledge, goals and interests. Students can register on AWS Educate with just an email address.
He further added that the AWS will support the goal of skilling students in cloud computing and Machine Learning through the AWS Deep Racer Student League, The competition provides participants an interesting and fun way to learn Machine Learning and experiment with it by building autonomous driving applications.
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