Top MOOC leading to jobs in the data economy — key contribution to the 1st European accredited master degree in computer science
DATUM ACADEMY, to nurture the future of digital universities.
Datum Academy is a university spin-off, MOOC editor, industrial course reseller and MOOC integrator which enables to get fully-accredited European degrees online in the data economy. Every academic course is "open" i.e. with free content under Creative Commons licensing (CC-BY-NC) on FUN platform (www.fun-mooc.fr); just certification to get professional credit and ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) has to be paid to Datum Academy which is managing the interfaces with universities and industrial partners. Datum Academy is fully committed to the UNESCO OER (Open Educational Resources) for academic courses to make them available on
our planet.
Starting in February 2019, Datum Academy offers three educational accredited environments :
— INDIVIDUAL graduate courses
— JOB PACKAGES (corresponding to learning tracks leading to specific highly-demanded jobs)
— ENROLLMENT (if eligible) in partnering universities to get complete accredited master degrees (with 60 ECTS)
Bearing the 1st European accredited IT master degree to start (in French and English) will be « eMBDS », the MOOC version of MBDS ( www.mbds-fr.org ), a successful master degree in computer science on ICT usage engineering from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (member of University Côte d’Azur). MBDS is ranked among the top ten master degrees in CS in France ( www.meilleurs-masters.com/master-informatique-et-ingenierie-des-systemes.html )
eMBDS will initially be delivered in close partnership with Oracle, the world leader in data management offering half of the master courses on data management TOOLS. Free ICT multidisciplinary seminars and use cases on ICT standards (in open source) will be on offer in 2019. Datum Academy is an OAER (Oracle Academic Education Reseller) and offered an « EMBDS Learning Subcription » part of eMBDS degree.
Another online master degree on “Big data management and analytics (machine learning, deep learning) is already planned jointly with the University of Sienna (Italy, Pr Marco Gori) in 2020 along with a partnership (in French only) with eMIAGE and Open Miage to offer a full master degree in 2
years.
DATUM in Latin language means “the fact of giving” in its singular form (from the verb “DARE”/“to give”); its plural form being …DATA! and… DATUM is also an acronym for… Degree-Accredited Tech-data Ubiquitous MOOCs.
Starting in February 2019 with pre-enrollment since Dec 1st
