Outsystems
Founded in 2001, OutSystems aims to give every organization the power to innovate, rapidly build and deploy their own business-critical applications through its low-code development platform.
Research shows that 39% of 18 to 28-year-olds, while attending high school or college, didn’t receive any information about tech careers. Aiming to address this challenge and to close the digital skills gap between employment and education, OutSystems expands the Developer Education Program and develops free, certifiable trainings in low-code app development for both educators and individual learners. Supporting over 40 educational institutions worldwide, OutSystems offers more than 300 hours of free online training materials in five languages. Through instructor-led training, it has trained more than 4,500 people to use the OutSystems platform, and this number multiplies significantly with its online offerings.
Digital skills
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean
Online, self-paced or instructor-led based on user preference
Associate level certification in instructor-led trainings; digital badges for other trainings upon completion
The training course in detail
OutSystems offers various free courses, learning programs and resources, adjusted to everyone needs and level of knowledge:
- Developer Journey: a self-paced, guided learning journey divided into 4 modules that provide setup, training, practical exercises in low-code development.
- Guided Paths: 300 hours of free online training courses for all backgrounds and levels;
- Developer School: a two-week remote instructor-led training course for people with tech background;
- Educator Kit: designed for educators, a toolkit of resources and materials that prepare teaching low-code app development to their students;
- Education Program: resources for educators and individual learners (a resource hub for all learning materials and programs)
- Students, individual learners, and technology beginners are recommended to follow the , followed by .
- People with some technical background or previous training in programming can apply for - Instructor-led training.
- Educators will benefit most from the resources, mainly the .
- Online, self-pace trainings: unlimited
- Instructor-led trainings: limited, 25-35 seats per training
Students, professors, and young people who want to gain skills for their future careers, adults in the framework of lifelong learning, upskilling, and reskilling efforts, and technology professionals who want to add new tools to their tool belt.
- Basic digital literacy
- Some technical skills are beneficial to become proficient in low-code development
- Digital device and Internet connectivity
"Because OutSystems is dedicated to bridging the gap in digital skills, we are motivated to improve and do more for general software development and the individuals who use our platform. By partnering with UNESCO Global Skills Academy, along with other organizations, we are making more accessible, free, high-quality learning content available to everyone, no matter their origin, gender, or background, creating a moving force towards a better and equitable world. We invite everyone to join the OutSystems and UNESCO GSA Community, keep learning and improving their competencies and employability options, and close the gap in access to digital skills."
