TY - GEN
T1 - An Experience Report of Executive-Level Artificial Intelligence Education in the United Arab Emirates
AU - Johnson, David
AU - Alsharid, Mohammad
AU - El-Bouri, Rasheed
AU - Mehdi, Nigel
AU - Shamout, Farah
AU - Szenicer, Alexandre
AU - Toman, David
AU - Binghalib, Saqr
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the UAE Minister of State for AI in the UAE, his excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama for his support for the program, and funding through the UAE National Program for Artificial Intelligence and the Dubai Future Foundation. We would also like to thank Professor Jonathan Michie for supporting the development of the teaching program by Oxford. Thanks to Ana Grouver-man, Omar Makhlouf, Angad Singh, Jude Fletcher, Ramon Granell, Sepi Chakaveh, Hammou Messatfa, Inaana Ab-boud, Simon O’Doherty, and Professor Nizar Habash, for their contributions as speakers/tutors. Finally, thanks to Rob Collins and Professor Cezar Ionescu for their contributions as both speakers and in developing the AI Program.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/6/30
Y1 - 2022/6/30
N2 - Teaching artificial intelligence (AI) is challenging. It is a fast moving field and therefore difficult to keep people updated with the state-of-the-art. Educational offerings for students are ever increasing, beyond university degree programs where AI education traditionally lay. In this paper, we present an experience report of teaching an AI course to business executives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Rather than focusing only on theoretical and technical aspects, we developed a course that teaches AI with a view to enabling students to understand how to incorporate it into existing business processes. We present an overview of our course, curriculum and teaching methods, and we discuss our reflections on teaching adult learners, and to students in the UAE.
AB - Teaching artificial intelligence (AI) is challenging. It is a fast moving field and therefore difficult to keep people updated with the state-of-the-art. Educational offerings for students are ever increasing, beyond university degree programs where AI education traditionally lay. In this paper, we present an experience report of teaching an AI course to business executives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Rather than focusing only on theoretical and technical aspects, we developed a course that teaches AI with a view to enabling students to understand how to incorporate it into existing business processes. We present an overview of our course, curriculum and teaching methods, and we discuss our reflections on teaching adult learners, and to students in the UAE.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85147605846
T3 - Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022
SP - 12766
EP - 12773
BT - IAAI-22, EAAI-22, AAAI-22 Special Programs and Special Track, Student Papers and Demonstrations
PB - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
T2 - 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022
Y2 - 22 February 2022 through 1 March 2022
ER -