Next up in our First Look series is Vocareum. Vocareum is a cloud based service that lets students learn to program in Android, Java, Hadoop, MySQL, Node.js, Python, D3.js and more. The key piece here is allowing this to happen through the cloud. Any middle or high school that offers programing understands that hardware and software setup can be a major obstacle in offering this coursework. Vocareum is removing that barrier by moving everything to the cloud. Below is the workflow for both the student and teacher:
Vocareum is currently offering a pilot program for 20 school districts across the country. Visit http://www.vocareum.com/home/index.php to apply today!