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MongoDB University Announces New Partnerships to Expand Education Outreach and Close the Technology Skills Gap
MongoDB University partners with Women Who Code, MyTechDev, and Lesbians Who Tech & Allies to certify 700 developers Partnership with LinkedIn Learning and
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[{"type":"text","content":"MongoDB University partners with Women Who Code, MyTechDev, and Lesbians Who Tech & Allies to certify 700 developers\nPartnership with LinkedIn Learning and Coursera makes MongoDB University content widely available to upskill millions of new learners \nNEW YORK, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced new education partnerships and initiatives to enable and empower future developers through education and help close the widening software-development skills gap globally. To ensure the training is accessible to more developers globally, MongoDB has established distribution partnerships with Coursera and LinkedIn Learning, both with networks of millions of global learners. And, to ensure that developers from traditionally underrepresented groups have an opportunity to gain skills with MongoDB Atlas, new partnerships with Women Who Code, MyTechDev, and Lesbians Who Tech & Allies will provide free certification to 700 developers. In addition to these partnerships, the MongoDB for Academia program now offers new benefits for educators such as free MongoDB Atlas credits and certifications. MongoDB University is releasing new online learning courses to reskill database administrators and professionals that use SQL—a querying language for relational databases—on how to take advantage of non-relational database technologies. To start learning with MongoDB University, visit learn.mongodb.com.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nWhether it's to compete against incumbents in their market or aggressively go after new opportunities, organizations across all industries are digitally transforming themselves by building their own software. However, despite the increased importance of developers to a company's success, there is a lack of software engineers to meet this growing demand. Software developer roles are ranked as the number-one profession in the 2023 Best Jobs Report from U.S. News & World Report, which takes into account median salary, current job openings, and long-term demand. The backbone to every application is the database, and the choice of which database to use has a direct impact on not only the success of an application, but also how fast it can be built, deployed, and continually updated. Tens of thousands of customers and millions of developers rely on MongoDB every day as their preferred database to p...