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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
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...
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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...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...Artificial Intelligence (AI) modelling, for example, it is estimated that deep learning techniques now needed for training AI produce a carbon emission equivalent to New York City. (Selwyn, 2022) A covert human workforce is a crucial component of creating and maintaining technological services. For example, with AI-driven technologies, the more data you have – images,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for business clients, industry platforms for manufacturers of consumer goods and transport platforms for cargo process management of air cargos. The animation below represents this model. Animation 2 Solution business model The boundary line between product and solution business models is not clear-cut: there are some cases where the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...artificial intelligence-based technologies that search vast swathes of the cosmos, have all contributed to furthering this debate. Since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s, this question has become the central tenet of the interdisciplinary science of astrobiology. Although there are programmes searching for advanced, intelligent life, for example SETI – the Search...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs