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SAP have just announced Imagine IoT – a free course on openSAP, SAP’s Enterprise MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) learning platform.
Why is this important?
The Internet of Things is an incredibly nascent area. Today. But it is going to explode. Slowly at first, and then all at once, such that some day soon everything will be smart and connected.
Think back to the state of the Internet in 1994. Almost no-one had a website, or their own domain even. Most companies didn’t even have a company email address, never mind one per employee. That’s where the Internet of Things is today. Most devices, are dumb and not connected, but soon all devices will be connected, the same way everybody has an email address, and when they all start talking to one another, it will transform the world as we know it even more than the Internet has to-date.
Now you see why the Internet of Things is important. It is globally transformative. Now, if you want to learn a little about the technologies underpinning the IoT, this course could well be for you.
The course is open to all comers and in the course
you will learn the fundamentals of the Internet of Things (e.g., sensors, the cloud, and more) and be introduced to new interaction paradigms (augmented reality, wearables, and more) that are changing how we interact with the world around us. You will also learn how to design and create your own IoT prototype
At the end of the course there is a “prototyping challenge” where you submit the prototype you have designed and completed during the course for feedback from your peers. The prototypes will be voted on and the winning prototypes will be showcased, and get to choose how SAP donates $50,000 to charity.
The course consists of 3 weeks of lectures commencing on September 28th, followed by four weeks of the prototyping phase.
The course curriculum looks like this:
- Week 1: Get to Know the Internet of Things
- Week 2: Go Deeper into IoT with SAP
- Week 3: Create Your First IoT Prototype
- Week 4: Submit Your IoT Prototype
- Week 5: Evaluate IoT Prototypes of Your Peers
- Week 6: View Results of Your IoT Prototype
- Week 7: Winners Announced
And the course doesn’t require any previous knowledge of coding (though, it probably wouldn’t hurt!).
I signed up for the course, and I’m looking forward to trying out some of the technologies that will be showcased.
Full disclosure – I work for SAP but I’d have blogged about a worthwhile initiative like this regardless given how important and pervasive the Internet of Things is going to become. Knowing how to work with IoT will be a hugely important skill.
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