{"id":47399,"date":"2017-10-14T05:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T05:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=47399"},"modified":"2017-10-14T05:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T05:30:59","slug":"apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-has-created-a-new-online-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-has-created-a-new-online-university.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Has Created a New Online University"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Has Created a New Online University<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Has Created a New Online University:- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is getting into the education business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The Silicon Valley technologist, who helped create Apple (AAPL, +0.64%) over 40 years ago with the late Steve Jobs, has debuted Woz U,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18.6667px\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18.6667px\">an online<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0university. He plans to eventually open physical campuses in over 30 cities in the U.S. and other unspecified countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The institute, with a corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz., offers online courses that are intended to train people in computer science and related fields and help them land jobs in the technology industry. Woz U is part of the private, for-profit Southern Careers Institute, which operates seven campuses in Texas as well as an online school. Although Woz U is affiliated with Southern Careers Institute, it plans to \u201cpartner with other colleges and institutions as we grow,\u201d according to the Woz U website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cOur goal is to educate and train people in employable digital skills without putting them into years of debt,\u201d Wozniak, who was once an elementary school teacher, said in a statement. \u201cPeople often are afraid to choose a technology-based career because they think they can\u2019t do it. I know they can, and I want to show them how.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Besides offering online courses to prospective students, Woz U will also work with technology companies to help them \u201crecruit and train, or even retrain, a workforce,\u201d according to the announcement. The institute also plans to provide computer science related curriculum to various school districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Currently, the only courses available online include ones related to software development, but the institute plans to debut in 2018 courses related to data science, mobile apps, and <\/span>cyber security<span style=\"color: #000000\">, according to the Woz U website. Prices for the courses are not disclosed on the website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">A Woz U spokesperson didn\u2019t disclose tuition prices, only to say that the \u201cCost of tuition would vary based on the student\u2019s program or retraining needs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cEach platform will offer students personalized learning to meet their needs,\u201d the spokesperson said in an email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">In 2019, Woz U plans a 12-to-16 month-long accelerator program that is intended help school leaders spot the institute\u2019s best students and place them in leading technology companies. These chosen students will also \u201clearn how to finance and capital raise for start-ups,\u201d according to the website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Other online education programs include the education-tech startup Coursera and Lynda.com, which LinkedIn bought in 2015 for $1.5 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/10\/13\/apple-steve-wozniak-online-university\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-has-created-a-new-online-university.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Has Created a New Online University Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Has Created a New Online University:- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is getting into the education business. 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