Steve Wozniak wants to train you for a career in tech

[Shawn Knight]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on Friday announced the formation of Woz U, an online learning platform designed to teach people the skills needed to have a successful career in technology-based fields.

Woz U offers online curriculum to educate computer support specialists and software developers. Courses for data science, mobile applications and cybersecurity are also in the pipeline, we’re told.

Wozniak said people often are afraid to choose a technology-based career because they think they can’t do it. The lifelong techie said he knows they can and he wants to show them how.

The learning institute will also provide solutions for businesses, helping them recruit and train employees in key tech skills through subscription-based curriculum or on-site programs.

Wozniak said their goal is to educate and train people in employable digital skills without putting them into years of debt. Oddly enough, pricing wasn’t mentioned in the press release nor was I able to find any information about it on the company’s website.

Woz U is starting life as a digital offering but is planning physical campuses in more than 30 cities around the world.

The initiative is part of Southern Careers Institute (SCI), a private, for-profit school with seven locations spread across Texas. This seemingly adds a bit of legitimacy to the service but also suggests that Wozniak may simply be lending his name to existing curriculum.

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[Kenrick]

That black and white photo looks like he passed away.

 

[Uncle Al]

Woz is a great guy but his business ventures after Apple haven't been that great. I'm hoping this one will be better, but compared to the A+ training and certification he's got a tall order to fill .......

 

[RedGuard]

USA is so weird with their need for software developers but you have to pay for the education.

For 4 years getting a computer science degree I had to pay only for food and rent - rent being 150 - 175 Euros per month. And I started working since the second year.

But then again nobody is knocking on my door offering me thousands of Euros to write software.

 

[mgwerner]

USA is so weird with their need for software developers but you have to pay for the education.

For 4 years getting a computer science degree I had to pay only for food and rent - rent being 150 - 175 Euros per month. And I started working since the second year.

But then again nobody is knocking on my door offering me thousands of Euros to write software.

Your tax rate, along with that of the rest of the EU? We in the US find that not weird, but appalling.

Your username says it all.

 

[RedGuard]

Sorry, I wasn't the one setting tax rates of 50% or 60% of one's income.

And the username is only referencing Final Fantasy VII.

 

[mgwerner]

Sorry, I wasn't the one setting tax rates of 50% or 60% of one's income.

And the username is only referencing Final Fantasy VII.

You are the one who votes for, and continues to live under, a repressive tax regime while criticizing internal policies of another country. Glass houses?

 

[davislane1]

Sorry, I wasn't the one setting tax rates of 50% or 60% of one's income.

And the username is only referencing Final Fantasy VII.

You are the one who votes for, and continues to live under, a repressive tax regime while criticizing internal policies of another country. Glass houses?

No kidding.

"I didn't have to pay for anything but food and rent."

Left out all the VAT taxes

 

[Theinsanegamer]

"Wozniak said people often are afraid to choose a technology-based career because they think they can’t do it. "

Well, most cant. Your typical user has about as much tech knowledge as a 5 year old. Outside of the facebook app, most barely know how to use a phone. If I've learned anything working in technical support, it is "never, ever underestimate how ignorant someone can be about technology.

young people are no better. Take their phone away, put then in front of a desktop, and ask them to write an email, and they will go full deer in headlights. Without their big fancy icons to put their finger on, they dont know how to do much of anything.

To understand how technology works, and to write/repair it, you have to have a certain mindset. Most people dont have that.

Sorry, I wasn't the one setting tax rates of 50% or 60% of one's income.

And the username is only referencing Final Fantasy VII.

You are the one who votes for, and continues to live under, a repressive tax regime while criticizing internal policies of another country. Glass houses?

No more repressive then being thrown into massive debt for daring to fall ill or daring to pursue decent education.

Two different sides of the same coin. You pay either way.

 

[Saul Wilcox]

Sounds great.
IT and technology aren't what they used to be. Formal education hasn't kept up.
I've worked with people straight out of university who created more problems than they solved (e.g. from new plugins or frameworks that didn't add value) or wrote code nobody understood.

The tools have changed: No git? No job.
Software is usually free now: you buy enterprise support, not licences for binaries.

It's hard to be a valuable developer or project manager without work experience.
Still, we must engineer the tools and mechanisms of the digital world, just as in the past with punch cards, railroads or printing presses. Everyone should play a part, not just western boys from my generation.

Steve Wozniak has a lot of experience - not everyone chooses to share theirs.

 

[hydrophilia]

"Wozniak said people often are afraid to choose a technology-based career because they think they can’t do it. "

Well, most cant. Your typical user has about as much tech knowledge as a 5 year old. Outside of the facebook app, most barely know how to use a phone. If I've learned anything working in technical support, it is "never, ever underestimate how ignorant someone can be about technology.

young people are no better. Take their phone away, put then in front of a desktop, and ask them to write an email, and they will go full deer in headlights. Without their big fancy icons to put their finger on, they dont know how to do much of anything.

To understand how technology works, and to write/repair it, you have to have a certain mindset. Most people dont have that.

Sorry, I wasn't the one setting tax rates of 50% or 60% of one's income.

And the username is only referencing Final Fantasy VII.

You are the one who votes for, and continues to live under, a repressive tax regime while criticizing internal policies of another country. Glass houses?

No more repressive then being thrown into massive debt for daring to fall ill or daring to pursue decent education.

Two different sides of the same coin. You pay either way.

Obviously mgwerner didn't quite think that one through.