Yandex.Workshop

Yandex.Workshop is an educational service.

2024

Cooperation agreement with the accelerator Industrix

The INDUSTRIX accelerator has entered into cooperation agreements with Yandex Cloud and Yandex Practice. This was reported to TAdviser by the press service of Gazprom Neft. The partnership will expand the access of technology startups to innovative online services and help attract IT specialists to the development of oil and gas projects. Read more here.

Launch of the free course "YandexGPT for beginners"

Yandex on March 4, 2024 launched a free course "YandexGPT for beginners," which will help managers, marketers, designers and everyone who works with content to start understanding neural networks and apply them to work.

Artificial intelligence can be delegated to creating a plan to solve a problem, helping with a strategy for promoting a new product, preparing a draft text for publication, analyzing customer reviews, and they will also help with followers of meetings and summers of voluminous texts, speed up the search for the necessary information and quickly determine the essence of the message. The course is built on live examples and shows how, with the help of neural networks, you can take off some of the routine work tasks.

The skill of working with generative neural networks will soon become as basic as knowing Microsoft Office ten years ago. We see that specialists in various fields turn to neural networks in their work, and we want to give them systemic knowledge and tools. The skills of working with neural networks are needed by everyone who wants to remain relevant in their profession, is ready to change and constantly develop in their careers. Our course, which we created together with the YandexGPT team, will help you start using neural networks at the basic level, "said Mark Majidov, product manager at Yandex Practice and one of the authors of the course.

The course is suitable for novice users who want to start understanding neural networks. Students will learn how to generate texts and images using YandexGPT and YandexART, learn how to competently compile a request for a model and study scenarios for using generative models in different areas: marketing, design, management, analytics. As a result, users will know how to collect the abstract plan of the article and the structure of the video script, create references and prototypes for computer graphics and design concepts, analyze data from sources and collect summaries of meetings and conferences. All modules will take approximately two hours to complete. Learning is asynchronous - you can learn at your own pace without worrying about deadlines.

Since October 2023, the Workshop has been actively introducing YandexGPT into the educational process. As of March 2024, students have access to hints, repetition of topics and explanation of complex terms in simple words, and since December, in programming courses, the neural network indicates errors in the code and offers three hypotheses for their occurrence.

The course content will be updated regularly, given the update of technology and products running on YandexGPT.

2023

Launch of an interactive textbook on programming for medical universities

Yandex on August 31, 2023 announced that an interactive textbook on programming for medical universities has been launched in Yandex Workshop. It will help medical students master current IT skills for their application in work and scientific research. The pilot project starts together with the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov in the fall of 2023, in the future the textbook will be available to other medical universities.

The Yandex Workshop textbook for medical universities is made in the form of an interactive simulator with practical tasks for programming on Python and on. data analytics The acquired skills will help novice doctors in solving professional problems: from automating routine processes, for example, scheduling and maintaining medical archives, to diagnosing and predicting diseases.

The textbook program is designed for 145 hours, and practical tasks were developed together with the methodologists of the Yandex Workshop and experts of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov.

Thanks to ready-made tasks and a built-in control system, university teachers will be able to save up to 20% of the time on preparing homework and checking test work, as well as see the progress and performance of each student in real time.

The gap between the pace of digital transformation health care and IT the skills of medical staff is huge. Three quarters (76%) of doctors Russia in do not know how digital technologies can improve their professional life. Solving this problem is important systematically, instilling culture and competencies already at the stage of study at the university. Yandex Workshop enters a medical cluster with its own digital solution adapted for needs. industries We are open to dialogue and are ready to work together with teachers and experts of universities to rethink new competencies of doctors and customize educational solutions for their requests, - said Ilya Kurmyshev, CEO of Yandex Workshop.

According to SmartRanking, MedTech's market volume increased by almost 30% in 2022. Nevertheless, there is still a gap between the pace of digitalization and the IT skills of employees. The textbook from Yandex Workshop will help universities reduce the cost of developing educational programs, optimize the learning process and gain access to advanced IT practices.

Launch of an accelerated online bachelor's degree for developers based on ITMO

Online training service for digital professions "Yandex. Workshop "in mid-June 2023 launched a series of higher education programs together with leading universities in Russia. The accelerated online bachelor's and online master's degrees in data analysis and programming will allow students to master fundamental knowledge and current practices in the field of IT, adopt the expertise of leading specialists in this industry, improve their skills and become popular specialists in the market.

A set for an accelerated online bachelor's degree has been opened together with the National Research University ITMO Frontend and Mobile Development, as well as in the online master's degree program Data Analytics for Business based on Tomsk State University and Web Development based on the University of Science and Technology MISIS. Graduates of educational programs will receive state diplomas.

Yandex launched an accelerated online bachelor's degree for developers based on ITMO

As stated in Yandex, the programs developed together with universities are as close to reality as possible and are practically oriented. Students will be able to take an internship in IT companies already during their studies, collect a portfolio of more than 10 projects, and then receive support for employment, or when looking for a job from a career center.

The accelerated online bachelor's degree "Frontend and Mobile Development," created on the basis of ITMO University, offers three areas to choose from: frontend developer, mobile iOS developer and mobile Android developer. Depending on the direction chosen, students will study HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Kotlin and Swift codes for two and a half years, as well as learn the features of developments for Apple and Android. The training lasts 2.5 years.

The online master's degree "Data Analytics for Business," created jointly with Tomsk State University, will allow you to acquire skills in two years to transform data of different formats, calculate key metrics and assess their significance, translate business tasks into Python, analyze product potential and much more.^[1]

At the heart of the Grade B2B platform

Yandex on April 24, 2023 announced the launch of an educational B2B platform for teaching digital skills to employees of companies - Grade. P.latform was launched on the basis of the Yandex.Practice solution. Read more here

2022

Yandex fined for leaking data from users of educational service

On December 12, 2022, the World Court of the Khamovnichesky Moscow District fined "" Yandex after leakage data users of the Yandex.Workshop educational service.

The court found the autonomous non-profit organization of additional professional education (ANO DPO) "Educational Technologies" Yandex '"(founder - Yandex) guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 1 of Art. 13.11 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (processing personal data in cases not provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of personal data, or processing personal data incompatible with the purposes of collecting personal data). The maximum fine under this article is 100 thousand rubles.

The World Court of the Khamovnichesky District of Moscow fined Yandex after the leakage of data from users of the Yandex.Workshop educational service

The Roskomnadzor protocol against the organization was registered by the court on November 28, 2022. The press service of the company noted that at that time they had not yet received a notification. They said that the unauthorized access of cybercriminals to the data of Yandex.Practicum users occurred in June 2022. After that, the company tightened its policy of storing data in the service.

{{quote "Since then, based on an internal investigation, we have conducted a detailed audit of security systems and tightened the policy of storing data in the service. It is important to take into account that because of this incident, no payment data or passwords of our users were compromised, - the media explained in the press service of Yandex. The company did not provide affected users with compensation or other terms of service after the leak. }} ANO DPO "Educational Technologies" Yandex, "created in 2014 in Moscow, is developing programs for additional professional education. The organization creates vocational training programs and advanced training courses, including the Yandex Workshop online education platform^[2]

Data breach of thousands of customers

There was a leak of data from thousands of Yandex.Practitioner customers, which became known on June 14, 2022. The educational service began to conduct an appropriate check.

According to the Information Telegram Leaks channel (administered by founder and technical director DeviceLock DLP Ashot Hovhannisyan), the database posted on the Web contains 300 thousand lines that contain names and surnames, usernames, email addresses (299,908 unique addresses), phones (246,424 unique numbers) and Yandex ID. It is alleged that the source of the leak is the same as the publication of data from customers of the delivery service, Delivery Club as well as the educational service GeekBrains and the Skolkovo Management School.

There was a data leak of thousands of Yandex.Practicum customers

We are conducting an internal investigation and checking the relevance of the data. No payment data or user passwords have been compromised, the press service of the Yandex.Workshop service told Interfax.

Educational services in Yandex.Practicum are provided by the School of Data Analysis, founded by Yandex in 2015. Training is conducted in the programs of data analysis, programming, marketing, management, design, English and others.

In the first half of 2022, several large data leaks of users of Russian services were registered, including Yandex projects. Against this background, the Ministry of Digital Development agreed on a bill that tightens the responsibility of companies for the leakage of personal data of customers. It involves not only the introduction of a revolving fine of 1%, but also an increase to 3% if the company tries to hide the incident.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, said that he supports the introduction of negotiable fines for data leakage. In his opinion, the adoption of such a bill will force businesses to invest more money in the development of their information security systems.^[3]

2021: IT training program for Yandex.Taxi employees

On September 21, 2021, it became known that Yandex decided to make programmers out of taxi drivers and will spend tens of millions of rubles on this. Moreover, in the future, the program of training in IT professions may be expanded.

According to TAdviser in Yandex, drivers connected to the Yandex.Taxi aggregator for more than three years will be able to undergo training in the Yandex.Workshop online education service for free and master the demanded IT profession from scratch. For example, they can become a data analyst, graphic designer, web developer, learn to program in C++, Java or Python.

Yandex decided to make programmers out of taxi drivers, tens of millions are planned to be spent on the project

To participate in the program, you need to fill out an application on the website and register with Yandex.Practicum by September 25, 2021. 150 thousand drivers across the country will be able to participate in the selection. Before training, you will need to take a career guidance test, study an introductory course in the chosen specialty, and then undergo motivation testing.

The company noted that the training will be remote - you only need a computer and access to the Internet. Classes will take about 10 hours a week, and during the remaining time, drivers can freely fulfill orders. The duration of courses is from four to 10 months.

After the course, drivers will receive a certificate that will allow them to work in a new specialty - Yandex.Practitioner has its own employment program. Training starts on October 26, 2021

Earlier, Yandex.Taxi has already tested a training program for drivers - some of them found work in the IT field at the stage of defending their diploma. Later, Yandex.Eda also joined the project - there they helped to get additional education to courier partners, the company noted.

Earlier in September 2021, Amazon offered to pay for college tuition in undergraduate programs for 750 thousand of its employees. Thus, the company hopes to attract tens of thousands of new workers with hourly wages.

2019: Service launch

On February 12, 2019 Yandex , it launched educational the Yandex.Workshop service, where anyone can master the profession in demand among technology companies. For February 2019, two professions are available at the Workshop: Frontend Developer and Web Developer, as well as an introductory course on. By data analytics the end of the course, each student will have a portfolio of several papers.

The directions of study in the Practice were not chosen by chance. We examined searches for hiring IT specialists, and then, together with HeadHunter, analyzed 400,000 developer vacancies over the past four years. So we learned which IT specialists and with what technological skills employers are most looking for. We found that the number of vacancies in front-end, web developers and data analysts has grown by 140% over four years. In February 2019, these professions account for 25% of all IT vacancies.

The IT personnel deficit in Russia is approximately 1 million people. We are pleased to support such retraining projects as Yandex.Practition. They help the higher education system to quickly reduce the shortage of IT specialists, and for people of different ages and specialties - to find an interesting and highly paid profession. The online format will make it easier for many - small-town residents, for example - to access training. 'Marina Borovskaya, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia '

The training at the Practice consists of two parts. First, students read materials and perform programming tasks in an online simulator. In the system, they immediately see if they have made errors in the code, and tips help to fix them. All materials of the courses are presented simply and clearly - so that any person understands them without special training. After studying each topic - every two weeks - students perform independent tasks from the real practice of developers, which are checked by the specialists of the Workshop.

Each student has their own mentor - a practicing developer. The mentor's task is to help the student track progress so that he can successfully complete the training. The mentor and his ward discuss how training is progressing, how acquired skills can be applied in work, what difficulties the student faced and how they can be overcome. Before starting to work with students, mentors undergo two months of training.

Training at the Practice lasts 6-9 months. The introductory 20-hour course is free - people can start learning and assess how suitable the chosen profession is for them. Further, the cost of training will be from 60 thousand rubles, depending on the direction. By the end of the courses, future front-end developers will make five sites that they can show at interviews, web developers - six sites. Students of the Data Analyst program, which will fully open by the summer of 2019, will conduct 15 studies during their studies. Everyone who successfully passes their thesis will receive certificates from Yandex.

Gradually, other directions will appear in the Practice. By the end of 2019, the educational service will begin to prepare backend developers and product managers.

Links

• Yandex.Workshop service website

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