Red Hat Updates Red Hat Academy

Brings Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Technology Education to Secondary and Higher Ed Students

Red Hat revealed updates to Red Hat Academy, the company’s open source education program that offers turnkey curriculum materials for educational programs in global secondary and higher education institutions. Red Hat has expanded Red Hat Academy to include content on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat JBoss Middleware, making Red Hat Academy the first program of its kind to offer an organized OpenStack offering, including a curriculum for instructors, textbooks, and labs, to high school and higher educational institutions.

For more than a decade, Red Hat Academy has outfitted schools with hands-on curriculum, labs, performance-based testing, and educator training and support. Red Hat Academy’s 100 percent web-based curriculum helps create proven competencies through hands-on, performance-based learning and testing.

Collaboration with Red Hat through Red Hat Academy includes classroom labs that provide a hands-on environment for learning and performing skills, as well as a self-checking function for immediate feedback. Participating students receive a voucher to take the Red Hat certification exam associated with the course they completed. Once certified, the student is enrolled in the Red Hat Certification Forum, connecting them to other Red Hat Certified Professionals and employers seeking certified professionals.

Iain Gray, vice president, Global Services, Red Hat, “Red Hat Academy provides computer science programs a comprehensive curriculum preparing students for the information technology profession. For students interested in systems administration, web development, or cloud computing, Red Hat Academy provides curriculum and certifications on current and emerging technologies, and we view the program as an opportunity to help develop the critical skillsets that will help drive the future of the technology industry.”