How do IT giants help education? Bonus part

I hope you have already read my articles on how Google, Microsoft and Amazon help students to acquire modern knowledge and to pass the educational process more efficiently. If not, read it, links will be at the end of this article.



However, the three giants are not limited to student buns. Under the cut - free software, training courses, a free cloud server, domains, and even your server colocation for a year. But only for students.







Alibaba Cloud



Alibaba's cloud package is much more modest than the cloud giants mentioned above. But it's also nice. You can get one free virtual machine (Elastic Compute Service) for a year and access to 10 free mini-courses with certification from a large list. You can register here .



Jetbrains



The developer of many-loved IDEs that support a wide range of programming languages, offers students, teachers, educational institutions, and even commercial programming courses free licenses for their products.



  • students and teachers can obtain individual free licenses for educational purposes for the entire period of study or work;
  • schools and universities can obtain licenses for computer labs, which must be renewed once a year;
  • commercial courses and their instructors can obtain licenses for six months for their students with the subsequent possibility of product renewals with a 50% discount.


More information on the JetBrains website .



Github education



In the comments to the article about Microsoft, they reminded me of this program. But at its core, GitHub is just a single node that checks your student status and passes this information directly to partners offering bonuses. And I counted more than 100 partners (of course, using the console and jQuery). I will talk about the most interesting in my opinion, but with the full list you can find on the project website . Since some of the features (AWS Educate, Microsoft Azure, JetBrains) have already been mentioned, I will skip them.



  • . «» MongoDB — MongoDB University, , $200 MongoDB Atlas. . , , .
  • . JetBrains, . , Bootstrap Studio, 3 IDE repl.it, Xojo, GitHub Pro .
  • . : name.com, .me Namecheap, .tech .
  • Cloud services. DigitalOcean is offering $ 50 for its services. Heroku is ready to provide a Hobby Dyno instance for 2 years.
  • Server hosting. British provider Netwise offers to collocate your 1U server for a year.
  • Email Services SendGrid and MailGun transactional mail services offer students an increased number of deliveries per month. Also testmail.app provides an unlimited number of addresses for automated mail testing.


This is just a short list of what warmed my soul personally. In the full list you will surely find something for yourself.



Hubspot



Hubspot, a developer of popular marketing services, offers educators access to a complete educational package (equivalent to $ 6,000 per month). You can read more at the link . In addition, Hubspot Academy is available to absolutely everyone , where you can master the skills of digital marketing and sales.



Worldquant university



This sentence stands out from the general outline of the narrative, but I thought it was valuable enough to write about it. People who have received at least a bachelor’s diploma and know English at a sufficient level can take free online training under the MSc in Financial Engineering program . The program is certified in the USA, but I never found out how things are with the recognition of the diploma. They also offer a small program Introduction to Data Science , which is available to all interested.



Yandex



Let's move closer to our lands and languages. Yandex offers some educational opportunities for different audiences and ages. To be honest, I did not find anything interesting for students with them. But just in case, a couple of found at least some useful suggestions:



  • Yandex.School - a selection of educational materials and video recordings of lessons in a variety of school subjects, as well as teaching materials for teachers on the organization of distance education.
  • Yandex Academy - articles and recommendations about the educational process, career choices, etc.
  • Yandex.Referats is an excellent service for creating essays on various disciplines, as well as at the intersection of sciences. It is not recommended for use if your work is really going to be read by a teacher ...


Also, in the framework of cooperation with various universities, with the participation of Yandex, various courses were created on the Coursera platform .



Mail.Ru



Mail.Ru for Education is a kind of alternative to G Suite for Education for those who need to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. I can not say anything about the quality of services, there was never a need to use them. If anyone has experience - tell us in the comments.



More on the topic:    Part 1: Google  >  Part 2: Microsoft  >  Part 3: Amazon Web Services  >  Part bonus



Instead of a conclusion



Of course, there are more offers for education than I have come across. If you know any other valuable features, post them in the comments. Let's make such a single information resource for ourselves.



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