{"id":57074,"date":"2016-10-10T13:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=57074"},"modified":"2016-10-12T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T14:55:59","slug":"apple-prepares-to-open-an-academy-of-200-pupils-in-italy-increasing-to-400-ss-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/10\/10\/apple-prepares-to-open-an-academy-of-200-pupils-in-italy-increasing-to-400-ss-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple prepares to open an academy of 200 pupils in Italy (increasing to 400 pupils next year)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/05\/apple-academy-naples-italy-san-giovanni-tim-cook\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Silicon Valley comes to Naples: Apple prepares to open Italian academy<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from theguardian.com by Stephanie Kirchgaessner<br \/>\n<em>With 200 pupils set to start training, the mood is high in the unlikely suburb chosen for tech giant\u2019s latest venture<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e8e9e555b036148a8981ec7790d9e1ec331666f\/0_314_5100_3060\/master\/5100.jpg?w=1300&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=abf43062e08b56343db18ab9fc62eb89\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And yet it is this spot \u2013 a corner of the sprawling city of Naples that never quite recovered after a major food-packing factory shut its doors in the 1980s \u2013 where the Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, and the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, hope the best and brightest young minds in the world will come to develop into leaders in the new app economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This week, Apple, the biggest technology company in the world, will open a new academy here \u2013 the first of its kind \u2013 that will teach 200 mostly southern Italian students how to write code and launch apps on Apple technology by the end of the year.<br \/>\nApple moves UK HQ to Battersea power station boiler room in London<br \/>\nRead more<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Each student at the iOS Developer Academy will be handed the latest iPhone, iPad and Macbook at the start of the nine-month course, which is being offered free of charge following a joint investment of about \u20ac10m by Apple and University of Naples Federico II, one of the oldest universities in the world, which is hosting the tuition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Addendum on 10\/12\/16:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/10\/11\/coorpacademy-founded-by-former-google-execs-raises-11-million-to-expand-its-corporate-edtech-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Coorpacademy, founded by former Google execs, raises $11 million to expand its edtech platform<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Chris O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley comes to Naples: Apple prepares to open Italian academy &#8212; from theguardian.com by Stephanie Kirchgaessner With 200 pupils set to start training, the mood is high in the unlikely suburb chosen for tech giant\u2019s latest venture &nbsp; Excerpt: And yet it is this spot \u2013 a corner of the sprawling city of Naples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,45,287,533,309,204,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computer-science","category-europe","category-experimentation","category-platforms","category-programming","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57110,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57074\/revisions\/57110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}