Distance learning is replacing formal classrooms. Using technology allows us to access educational materials of learning courses or training programs – completely online, and there are many resources for effective learning today.
ICodeFactory experience in e-learning is not a novelty, with our IT Training services, we have done a lot with e-learning for our team’s knowledge sharing and also delivering courses online. Currently, we have our Microsoft Certification Training completely remote for our students.
The important thing with e-learning is that communication is still both ways, our trainees have their mentors who are constantly participating in tasks, workshops or some other development activities. Modern technologies help educators to easily create effective online materials and we would like to share with you the most significant tools to enhance knowledge from our trainers and professionals.
Microsoft Teams is one of our favorite and inevitable tools for communication, recording, sharing materials, but this time we want to say more about Azure Lab Services.
Azure Lab Services provides an easy way to build a virtual lab in the cloud with the possibility of scaling it to hundreds of VMs in a template. All we have to do is prepare the experience for our trainees and the Lab Services takes care of the rest, like infrastructure, scaling, errors and others. Creating custom templates allows us to schedule some features to automatically start/shut down, limit the number of hours for students to complete their project or training or schedule the time when the VMs are accessible to users.
Besides the classroom lab environment, Azure Lab Services enables you to quickly set up a test environment or development environment for your team.
The new services that technology provides us will offer increased flexibility and assistance in creating learning content every day so that knowledge will be easily accessible to everyone.
We are pleased to say that we “have been running” distance learning for some time and that we are evolving together with Microsoft's development of learning services.
Lastly, let’s not forget the impact of all of us in distance learning. No matter how much science and technology progress, without our curiosity and enthusiasm, self-motivation and desire for knowledge, remote learning could not be achieved.
Join us and let’s learn together.
It is always fascinating to watch smart and young talents who are trying to make some cool stuff in tech. We had a chance to hear presentation from the Vector Robotics team for Eurobot2020 competition.
This is not the first time they participate in competition in robotics. Their success from last year were 2nd place on National competition and remarkable results in France.
Dušan and Aleksandar represented their team, which count 8 members and explain us all the necessary things to create a robot. They had to complete whole lifecycle from conception, designing all parts, manufacturing all mechanical constructions from many suppliers and our favorite part – to insert a program into robots.
These robots have functionality for picking up the cups and sorting them by the colors.
At the end of the presentation, they left us breathless and shocked with all those details from many disciplines, ideas and efforts they had to involve in creating robots.
We are glad that we can support the excellence of our youth, their desires, efforts, their great achievement and at least participate financially in their project.
We wish them all the best this year and will keep our fingers crossed for all competitions that comes.
Good luck geniuses!
To celebrate International Women's Day, we decided to introduce you our favorite girl at ICodeFactory, our “Coding Queen”, partner on board, Microsoft Certified Trainer and many more – Marija Brajković.
Marija’s contribution to the innovative ideas, business growth and corporate culture in ICodeFactory was recognized years ago, when she has become one of the managing partners. We asked her a couple of questions about her beginnings in IT and advises for young girls who are searching their career path.
Enjoy reading following interview:
1. What influenced you to pursue a career in IT?
When I finished high school, I hesitated about choosing a college. Accidentally, I stumbled on Faculty of Economics, Business Information Systems module and found myself in programming. I liked it a lot, so an IT was an only logical continuation of my career.
2. How does your MSc in Economics affect your software engineering career?
College degree provides you the big picture of what you are going to do or “base knowledge” as we love to call it in ICodeFactory. Of course, there is practical knowledge you gain on workplace.
Master’s degree in Economics makes it easier for me to understand the domain of requirements, business processes and business side of the project and therefore it helps me to propose better ideas and solutions from both technical and business point of view.
3. What does it feel to be at the ICodeFactory partner board?
It feels good. (smile)
4. What is your favorite part about working at ICodeFactory?
Possibility to constantly expand knowledge. In this technology-driven world, there is always something new outside and you can never stop learning. It is always a good time to start learning something new, and ICodeFactory has built environment for continuous learning, encouraging employees from all departments to learn and share their knowledge.
We grow together, that’s my favorite part.
5. What advice would you give to girls who are considering their career in IT industry?
Be brave, it doesn’t hurt. Follow your passion. You will never get bored in tech.
