Educational support and facilities from tech giants.

A guide to free resources for the modern student

Various leading tech companies in the IT world provide various facilities in the education sector. Among these are free software for teachers and students, various cloud platform facilities, course access, training, virtual lab access, products discounts, internship etc. This article sheds light on the educational offers of various IT companies.

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Major Common Support and Facilities

Webinar
Short Training
Free Certification
Exam Discounts
PPP (Private-Public Partnership)
Hardware Price Discounts
Free Software
Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS) Access
Docker and Kubernetes
VMs and V-Lab Access
Virtual Internship
Free Domain & Hosting

Microsoft

Free Windows Desktop and Server OS with license

Free Microsoft Office 365 for Schools & Students

Students and educators at eligible institutions can sign up for Office 365 Education for free, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and now Microsoft Teams, plus additional classroom tools. Use your valid school email address to get started today.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors

https://studentambassadors.microsoft.com/

Google

Google Workspace for Education

https://edu.google.com/workspace-for-education/editions/overview/

Google Cloud Higher Education Programs

https://cloud.google.com/edu

Google Cloud for Students

https://cloud.google.com/edu/students

Google Cloud for Faculty

https://cloud.google.com/edu/faculty

Amazon Web Services

AWS Educate

https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/

AWS Academy-Industry Relationship (PPP)

https://aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/

VMware

VMWARE IT ACADEMY

VMWARE ACADEMIC SOFTWARE LICENSING

https://itacademy.vmware.com/

IBM

Virtual Computing Lab

https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/cloud-for-education

Oracle

Member educators and their higher education students can access always-free Oracle Autonomous Database, Compute Virtual Machines (VM), object storage, data egress, and other essential building blocks needed to create applications on top of Oracle Autonomous Databases.

Oracle Academy

Oracle Academy Cloud Program.

The Oracle Academy Cloud Program provides access to Oracle Cloud Free Tier to Oracle Academy Institutional members and their students for teaching, learning, and developing in the cloud. Member educators and their higher education students can access always-free Oracle Autonomous Database, Compute Virtual Machines (VM), object storage, data egress, and other essential building blocks needed to create applications on top of Oracle Autonomous Databases.

Oracle APEX

Oracle Academy provides Institutional members and their students access to Oracle Application Express (APEX), a cloud-based, low-code development platform that enables users to build scalable, secure enterprise apps, for hands-on practice in the cloud.

NetSuite

For Oracle Academy Institutional members that are post-secondary institutions with experience in SaaS ERP, CRM, SCM, or eCommerce, Oracle Academy offers leading cloud-based business management software NetSuite and NetSuite One World in a limited number of countries. These SaaS solutions prepare students for careers by helping them build the key business skills and practical experience employers seek.

https://academy.oracle.com/en/solutions-cloud.html

Cisco

Free Certification

https://www.netacad.com/

For Educators

https://www.netacad.com/educators

PPP

Become a Cisco Networking Academy

https://www.netacad.com/become-an-academy

RedHat

Red Hat Academy

Red Hat® Academy is an academic training program designed to help institutions differentiate themselves by providing an enterprise-ready Linux and open-source curriculum. Member institutions receive no-cost instructor training and support, robust lab environments with flexible delivery options and comprehensive, printed, digital or online textbooks. Students will develop the in-demand skills employers need and receive discounted certification exams.

https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/red-hat-academy

Red Hat Academy Open Tech Series

https://rha.redhat-partner.com/

Adobe

Creative Cloud for Education

Adobe tools empower students to think creatively and communicate expressively, so they can turn their classroom ideas into college and career opportunities. And Adobe offers special pricing for education, from individual students to entire institutions.

https://www.adobe.com/education.html

Adobe Creative Cloud for students

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/buy/students.html

Apple

https://www.apple.com/us-edu/store

https://www.apple.com/education/

https://www.apple.com/education/college-students/

Samsung

https://www.samsung.com/us/shop/offer-program/education/

Labster

https://www.labster.com/

Labster’s Free Trial

Labster offer a 30-day free trial to all eligible educators. With our free trial, not only can you access our full catalog of 250+ simulations and learning supplements, but you can also create courses and add your students.

https://help.labster.com/instructors/collections/681646/sections/3395018/articles/6068183-labster-s-free-trial/

HP

Hardware Price Discounts

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/cv/hp-education

For Students

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-linkedin-for-students-2021/

NPTEL MOOCs

Free online courses
Virtual labs
Video Lectures

https://nptel.ac.in/

Harvard University

Free Courses

https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

https://ocw.mit.edu/

Canva

Graphic Design and presentation.

https://www.canva.com/education/

GitHub

GitHub Student Developer Pack

For today’s developer, a GitHub profile is the modern CV. GitHub has played a big role in the open-source software movement and is used by almost everyone in the development field. GitHub is an indispensable tool which you must have if you want to make it as a developer.

https://education.github.com/pack