Promoting Prosperity of Open-source Ecosystem, and Jointly Cultivating Talent for OpenHarmony

From August 9 to 13, iSoftStone OpenHarmony live teacher training for 2021 was organized to enhance college teachers’ understanding of OpenHarmony, allow them to keep abreast of industry development trends, and improve their teaching capability. Some 200 teachers from over 50 colleges and universities across China attended this training. In addition, the session was also streamed free of charge to colleges and universities across the country through the iSoftStone cloud livestreaming studio and OpenHarmony education training group. During the session, more than 8,000 persons watched the live broadcast.

Opening ceremony—iSoftStone OpenHarmony Teacher Training

Guided by the OpenAtom Foundation, this OpenHarmony teacher training was co-sponsored by the Working Committee for OpenHarmony Project Group and Beijing iSoftStone Education Technology Co., Ltd. and supported by Nanjing BearPi Smart Technology Co., Ltd.

Leaders and guests attended the opening ceremony of the training session and delivered important speeches included Tao Yang, chairman of the OpenAtom Foundation, Ying Huang, vice chairman of iSoftStone Information Technology (Group) Co., Ltd., Jianshen Ou, member of the OpenHarmony Working Committee and director of open-source and developer operation of Huawei HarmonyOS.

Chairman Yang stressed the plans for OpenHarmony education, hoping to join efforts of all sectors of society in an open-source model featuring co-building, sharing and co-governance to cultivate developers for OpenHarmony and increase the number of developers.

Vice chairman Huang noted that iSoftStone would partner with the OpenAtom Foundation, the OpenHarmony Project Group and all eco-partners to jointly create an IoE system for the new era, and also wished to collaborate with experts and college teachers on education, to create a talent ecosystem for OpenHarmony.

Director Ou expounded on the relationship between OpenHarmony and HarmonyOS as well as the plans and supportive policies for the ecosystem of college developers, key issues that college teachers show a keen interest in，which has greatly enhanced their confidence.

Highlights—iSoftStone OpenHarmony Teacher Training

This teacher training course was delivered by Lecturer Leng and Lecturer Xia, senior technical experts from Beijing iSoftStone Education Technology Co., Ltd. By sharing technical practice and solutions in such forms as theoretical instruction, experimental demonstration and guidance and Q&A，the trainers have helped the teachers to develop an overall cognition of the OpenHarmony ecosystem and to prepare them for delivering courses to college students later.

For the training, a project was designed to fully connect the apps in the Internet of Things (IoT) system based on the BearPi-HM Nano, Huawei Cloud IoT platform, Huawei Kunpeng cloud server and Harmony app. The main knowledge points concerned include the principle for the operating system (OS), basic information about and use of bus interface and peripheral sensors, computer network communication protocol, introduction of Huawei Cloud and the method of accessing equipment onto the IoT platform, Harmony UI development, multithreading communication, cross-process communication, cross-device communication (distributed soft bus), distributed circulation, the amqp message queue, WebSocket, Springboot, etc. The training focused on the architecture design, technology selection, and the advantages and disadvantages of various technical solutions in combination with real-world projects.

After the training, the OpenAtom Foundation and iSoftStone Education jointly awarded the completion certificates of "OpenHarmony Teacher Training Course" to the participating teachers.

Trainee Speeches—iSoftStone OpenHarmony Teacher Training

Teacher Zhao from Wuhan University:

The wonderful lecture was very helpful in popularizing and introducing the HarmonyOS among college teachers. I hope to continue to collaborate with iSoftStone on courses to contribute to the creation of an ecosystem for HarmonyOS in colleges.

Teacher Gao from Chengdu Technological University:

iSoftStone’s this training has provided us with a rare opportunity to get familiar with HarmonyOS, develop related courses, and explore how to train professionals needed for the industry.

Teacher Liang from Guilin University of Electronic Technology:

This training session provided detailed and insightful information about the relevant features and scenarios of OpenHarmony. I believe a great number of developers will use OpenHarmony for development in the future and has high expectations for its future performance.

Teacher Li from Hubei University of Technology:

iSoftStone keeps improving the course quality by inviting full-time lecturers and senior industry professionals to polish the outlines and the contents. The combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience has run through the whole learning process of knowledge acquisition, understanding, application and feedback. It is worthy of recommendation.
Teacher Zhang from Hubei University of Arts and Science:

As a college teacher, I am duty-bound to do what little I can in cultivating developers for the Harmony ecosystem and technology.

Teacher Xie from Wuhan Huaxia Institute of Technology:

I benefited a lot from this training. I gained a deeper understanding of OpenHarmony and was able to explore the core of OpenHarmony through these tests. This has laid solid technological foundation for setting up courses on OpenHarmony in the future.

Teacher Zhai from Nanchang Institute of Technology:

This training has enriched my knowledge, broadened my work horizon, and taught me many working methods. I have a more definite goal for my work priorities and plans in the future.

Teacher Liao from Sias University:

Incorporating the practical cases of the project into our future courses will help us integrate theories and practice and improve our teaching capabilities and skills.

Teacher Yang from Huanghe Jiaotong University:

From the device, to the gateway, to Huawei cloud server, to the application server, and finally to the terminal. The two teachers leveraged the project cases and their own practical experience to make the whole training informative and interesting, from which I have benefited a lot.

Teacher Cao from Anyang Institute of Technology:

This training gave us much-needed critical information. It will have positive and far-reaching impact on the creation of the Harmony ecosystem and the teaching of IoT-related technological applications in China.

Teacher Li from Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology (LIST):

Both iSoftStone and LIST are in action to promote innovation in IT technological applications in China. Everyone of us is working to promote innovation in IT technological applications.

Teacher Wu from Guangdong Ocean University:

The five-day HarmonyOS training has been over. From the equipment side to the platform side, the service side, and then to the application side, we feel that HarmonyOS, with its compatibility, ease of use and synergy, will play a great role in the "cloud computing, big data, IoT, AI and mobile network” sector.

Working Together on the iSoftStone OpenHarmony Teacher Training

Talent ecosystem creation is a key link in the overall development of OpenHarmony. This session of teacher training is part of the key efforts to lay a solid foundation for the innovation of IT applications. It engaged college teachers into the OpenHarmony project, accelerated the cultivation of innovators for the IT industry, and provided strong support for the prosperity of emerging technologies.

In the future, iSoftStone will work with colleges and universities to explore the models for cultivating industry talents and boost coordinated development of industry-university-research partnership, so as to deliver the inter-disciplinary ICT talents that cater to the needs of the era for digital economy.

iSoftStone Education is the education brand of the iSoftStone Group that is dedicated to the supply and cultivation of ICT talents. It is the platform for iSoftStone to forge university-industry partnership, promote talent supply and development and create the talent ecosystem. iSoftStone Education is committed to promoting university-industry partnerships, address the gap between supply and demand of industry professionals, align the existing education models with the market demand, so as to solve the "last-mile" difficulty in corporate recruitment.