Education
Show Notes:Getting into our Spring 2021 theme of Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education, today's show we are joined by Aaron Osmond from Amazon Web Services. We talk about the educational avenues offered through AWS and how different paths of learning can be part of a total learning experience, not just "alternative" offerings. Featured Quotes:Last year alone in the United States, there were 5.3 million open cloud jobs that were posted in the U.S. Of that, more than half of those jobs remained unfilled. We were not able to find students or existing industry professionals to fill those positions, and that problem is growing at a rate of 30% to 40% every year. There’s a huge skills gap.Aaron Osmond - Amazon Web ServicesFirst of all, the technology industry is clearly sending signals around its frustration with higher education and the slowness and, frankly, the lack of level of preparedness of students graduating out of our education system across the country - not specific to Utah . . .Aaron Osmond - Amazon Web ServicesLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook