Roundup of Cloud Computing Online Courses and Programs January 12, 2015

Page 1 of 7

University or Massive Open Online Course

(MOOC) Provider

Course & Description 100% Online?

Date Course Begins

Cost

Website

Amazon Web Services

AWS Training Now includes training sessions on Big Data Technology Fundamentals and Big Data on AWS. AWS Training over the last six months has accelerated the breadth and depth of free instructional videos, self-paced labs and instructor-led classes, including a comprehensive section of the training site committed to AWS Certifications. The AWS website has been redesigned to make online training, instructor-led classes, AWS certification and Getting Started sections more intuitive. Amazons role-based technical training courses are designed around the three primary roles that comprise engineering teams delivering cloud-based solutions: Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, and Developer. Just for signing up, anyone can get access to AWS Free Tier for 12 months including the 18 products and services available.

Yes

Instructional Videos & Self-

Paced Labs: On Demand

Courses: start date varies by

location

Free for instructional videos, self-paced labs and selected courses

Cost varies by specific

courses

http://aws.amazon.com/training/

Cork Institute of Technology

MSc in Cloud Computing (Online Programme) - Masters Degree program comprised of Cloud Strategy Planning & Management, Managing Virtual Environments, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Centre Networking, Application Development Frameworks, Scripting for System Administrators, Cloud Security, Cloud Storage Infrastructures and a Research Project. Classes in this program commenced September, 2014.

Yes Semester 2

begins February 2, 2015

The total cost of the programme (3 semester

part-time mode) is 10,800. The fee per semester is 3600.

http://cloud.cit.ie/msc-cloud-computing/

http://cloud.cit.ie/

Coursera & University of

Edinburgh and ORT Uruguay

University

Code Yourself! An Introduction to Programming - This course will teach you how to program in Scratch, an easy to use visual programming language. More importantly, it will introduce you to the fundamental principles of computing and it will help you think like a software engineer. This course is also offered in Spanish: https://www.coursera.org/course/aprogramar

Yes March 9, 2015 Free

(no charge opt-in to Coursera required)

https://www.coursera.org/course/codeyourself

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Roundup of Cloud Computing Online Courses and Programs January 12, 2015

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University or Massive Open Online Course

(MOOC) Provider

Course & Description 100% Online?

Date Course Begins

Cost

Website

Coursera & University of

Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

Heterogeneous Parallel Programming - This course introduces concepts, languages, techniques, and patterns for programming heterogeneous, massively parallel processors. Its contents and structure have been significantly revised based on the experience gained from its initial offering in 2012. It covers heterogeneous computing architectures, data-parallel programming models, techniques for memory bandwidth management, and parallel algorithm patterns.

Yes January 12,

2015

Free (no charge opt-in to Coursera required)

https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero

Coursera & University of

Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

Cloud Computing Concepts - Cloud computing systems today, whether open-source or used inside companies, are built using a common set of core techniques, algorithms, and design philosophiesall centered around distributed systems. Learn about such fundamental distributed computing "concepts" for cloud computing. Concepts covered in this course include Clouds, MapReduce, key-value stores; Classical precursors; widely-used algorithms; classical algorithms and scalability. Interviews with leading managers and researchers, from both industry and academia are included in the course. An optional programming track featuring the C++ programming language is also being offered at no charge.

Yes February 2,

2015

Free (no charge opt-in to Coursera required)

https://www.coursera.org/course/cloudcomputing

Coursera & University of

Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

Cloud Computing Concepts: Part 2 Cloud Computing Concepts offered on February 2nd needs to be completed as a prerequisite for this course. The concepts This course will be broken up into 5 weekly modules that includes coverage of the following areas: concurrency control; replication control; stream processing, graph processing, & the structure of networks; scheduling; distributed file systems, distributed shared memory, sensor networks; and security, datacenter outage studies, and course wrap-up.

Yes March 16, 2015 Free

(no charge opt-in to Coursera required)

https://www.coursera.org/course/cloudcomputing2

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Roundup of Cloud Computing Online Courses and Programs January 12, 2015

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University or Massive Open Online Course

(MOOC) Provider

Course & Description 100% Online?

Date Course Begins

Cost

Website

Coursera & University of

Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

Cloud Computing Applications - Learn of "cloudonomics," the underlying economic reasons that we are creating the cloud. Learn the basic concepts underlying cloud services and be able to use services like AWS or OpenStack Dashboard to construct cloud services or applications. Demonstrate your ability to create web services, massively parallel data intensive computations using Map/Reduce, NoSQL databases, and real-time processing of real-time data streams. Case studies will be drawn from Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Facebook, data mining, analytics, and machine learning.

Yes August, 2015 Free

(no charge opt-in to Coursera required)

https://www.coursera.org/course/cloudapplications

Coursera & University of

Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

Cloud Networking - This course will explore in-depth the challenges for cloud networking on a global scale. Specific topics covered in the course include physical data center network topology and fault-tolerance, network virtualization, software defined networking, congestion control and traffic engineering and inter-data center networks. Undergraduate-level networking know-how (for instance, how shortest path routing works, how TCP works, etc.) is recommended.

Yes October, 2015 Free

(no charge opt-in to Coursera required)

https://www.coursera.org/course/cloudnetworking

Coursera & University of New Mexico

Web Application Architectures - This course explores the development of web application architectures from an engineering perspective. The course will cover fundamental design patterns and philosophies associated with modern web application architectures, along with their major components. By the end of this course, students will be able to: design, develop and deploy a modern web application; Understand the major architectural components in web apps, and how they fit together; use Ruby on Rails; and Better understand modern software engineering practice.

Yes March 16, 2015 Fre