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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...artificial intelligence, social media platforms, virtual reality etc. We all have examples of when technology has changed our working practices or environment – but the adaptability required to embrace these changes depends on your career resilience. The demand for employee well-being – exacerbated by an increase in remote working, particularly during the global...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...artificial intelligence. The theory proposes that cognition (thinking) develops through physical interaction with the world (Thelen, 1995). Lakoff and Johnson argue that our learning and understanding is dependent on our perceptions and our experiences through our sensori-motor systems – we learn by doing/experiencing. More simply, think about learning situations in...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...artificial intelligence, and big data can help organisations use data and information to make better and more valuable decisions – often referred to as ‘business intelligence’. Activity 4 The functional value of information Timing: Allow around 30 minutes for this activity Watch the video interview of Professor Devandra Kodwani (Executive Dean of the Faculty of...
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...artificial intelligence. And not because of some 80s design fad. He imagines himself in a room with boxes of Chinese characters he can’t understand, and a book of instructions which he can. If a Chinese speaker outside the room passes him messages under the door, Searle can follow instructions from the book to select an appropriate response. The person on the other side...
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...artificial intelligence is outperforming humans in terms of knowledge. And so the things that we will need to focus on are those human skills, so the things that robots can’t do, cooperation, collaboration, teamwork, empathy, critical thinking. And that means that our whole education system is going to have to shift from where it has been in the past towards helping...
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...artificial intelligence and education (coming soon). Each case study presents a fictional scenario, charts the researcher’s decision-making and how various paragraphs in the guidelines were applied, captures the consequences and ponders alternative courses of action which could have been taken. As part of BERA’s commitment to open dissemination of its ethical...
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenging text-based methods, alternative approaches benefit everyone by providing diverse and effective ways of learning and working. Educating individuals about dyslexia and other learning difficulties and providing effective support strategies can significantly enhance the experiences of those with dyslexia. Shifting from making judgments...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...artificially? It is worth noting that practically all the research programmes currently being pursued by the MIT team and other roboticists are devoted to equipping robots with specific functional capacities – capacities to discriminate, categorise, learn, perform everyday tasks and so on. None is devoted directly to making it conscious. Indeed, the MIT team say they...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs