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Basic digital skills
Happy new year to you all and the first post of the year comes from the Marchmont Employment and Skills Observatory monthly mailing. A new survey has found that many ... -
MOOCs and Artificial Intelligence - Potentials for the Professional Development of VET Teachers and Trainers
It does not seem likely that we are going to participate in any face to face conferences in the near future. But conferences are continuing online and in some ways ... -
Keeping up with the data
AI as I am sure you all know by now, is largely reliant on the black gold, data, and preferably lots of it. With the speed that things are developing ... -
Does only AI make a good university?
Plans for a dedicated AI university campus in Bremen are causing a controversy. The plan is backed by a consortium of German software giant SAP, Chinese IT firm Neusoft and ... -
Developing Competences for the AI Era
UNESCO are increasingly active in the development in the use of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Next week - 7 and 8 of December they are hosting an International Forum on ... -
FutureLearn team up with Microsoft for online AI course
As many of you will know, FutureLearn is the UK Open Universities MOOC arm, run in conjunction with an international consortium of universities. But, I guess like everyone else, FutureLearn ... -
Workshop on Ai and Vocational Education as part of European Vocational Skills Week
This week is European Vocational Skills Week. And as a partner of the European Vocational Skills Week the Taccle AI project, is organising an online workshop on "Artificial Intelligence for ... -
Rwanda teachers on how to safely reopen schools
The issue of safe reopening of schools after lockdowns in the Covid 19 pandemic is contentious in many countries, including the UK. Equally there is a debate going on as ... -
Data Driven Science
This diagram is from a tweet by Data Driven Science (@DrivenScience). Artificial Intelligence they say, is the broad discipline of creating intelligent machines. Machine Learning refers to systems that can ... -
The State of Data 2020
One result of the Covid 19 pandemic is it seems like every day now there are free events. This week is no exception and this conference looks great. I can't ...