Dutch company VodafoneZiggo digitally trains more than 100,000 students
During the past school year , VodafoneZiggo has made more than 100,000 students digitally skilled . This happened with the Online Masters programme , a free curriculum about the digital world intended for the upper classes of primary education and the lower secondary education . In addition , the school this year received almost 2,000 children for an experience day . Here , young people get a look behind the scenes at VodafoneZiggo .
More than 250 employees from the organisation were involved as coach or Online Master guest lecturer to stimulate digital skills . The free curriculum consists of four modules : the digital world , creative and competent online , safe online and consciously online . Online Masters has been developed in collaboration with ECP / VeiligInternetten . nl and Mediawijzer . net .
The programme is regularly supplemented with current topics . The new privacy law
( AVG ) took effect on May 25 . Online Masters has therefore added an extra level of ‘ Personal Data and Privacy ’, in which young people talk to each other about privacy and what this law means to them . Online Masters is also available free of charge in the new school year 2018 / 2019 to help develop digital skills .
Online Masters is given by teachers themselves , whereby the modules are
Four new University of Amsterdam professors to study impact of AI
The University of Amsterdam ( UvA ) has announced that it will appoint four new university professors . The university professors will focus on artificial intelligence ( AI ) and the societal questions surrounding this technology from a variety of research disciplines . The UvA will use the new chairs to give an extra impetus to its research and teaching in the field of AI .
“ The UvA is strongly committed to developing its AI capacity through , among other things , an AI hotspot at Amsterdam Science Park that brings together teaching , research and collaborative partnerships ,” said UvA Rector Magnificus , Karen Maex .
“ AI research is leading to various applications and the developments in this field are only gaining speed . The impact of these applications on various facets of our everyday lives is substantial . This in turn is leading to , among other things , legal ,
ethical and cultural questions that are also relevant within teaching and learning . The new university professors will study different aspects of AI from various disciplines .”
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digitally introduced by experts in the various fields . Over 250 colleagues attended one or more classes during the past school year . They did this at the schools themselves or as guest lecturers at a location of VodafoneZiggo where children between the ages of 11 and 15 were received in the past year for an experience day . Every month , more than 200 children get a look at the ‘ technical kitchen ’ of VodafoneZiggo .
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Four chairs have been established , each with its own profile : AI and Information Retrieval ( affiliated with the Faculty of Science ), AI and Medical Imaging ( affiliated with AMC ), Humanities and AI ( affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities ) and Law and Technology with a special emphasis on AI ( affiliated with the Faculty of Law ). The appointment process for a university professor of AI and Information Retrieval has already started .
The UvA currently has four university professors : Robbert Dijkgraaf , Alexander Rinnooy Kan , Patti Valkenburg and Frank Vandenbroucke . In addition to their university-wide assignment , the new university professors will also have a faculty assignment . They will be expected to give an impetus to academic developments that transcend the traditional disciplines and thereby make an important contribution to the profiling of the university .
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