AI4PPP – Artificial Intelligence for People, Plant and Profit

As part of the outcome of Project 4, the project partners have developed educational materials that represent an additional step towards achieving the main goal of the project – to provide an innovative and transferable AI training programme for non-C level technology leaders and those who will become one.

The learning materials present useful business examples that show the practical introduction of artificial intelligence in specific industries, which will lead students to understand theoretical aspects focused on understanding artificial intelligence technology and its potential to introduce innovations and improvements into everyday business environment. Educational materials are developed for adoption during lectures with MBA students and MA business students.

As the end result, 9 comprehensive training modules have been developed, each of which represents one business case and covers 20 school hours. In this way, the educational modules represent a ready-to-use open educational material that will provide professors and students with all the materials necessary for the successful implementation of the teaching/learning process – the following types of learning materials are developed within each module:

1. Teaching scenarios – provide professors/lecturers with detailed information on school progress, student assignments and duration, as well as provide guidance on their implementation and valuable comments
2. Teaching materials – intended for professors/lecturers in order to improve the learning process and facilitate the implementation of the modules
3. Learning materials – designed for students to enrich the learning process and make the lesson more practical and project-oriented

Educational materials are prepared as “standard” materials that could be used to create new or improve existing study programmes in higher education or adult training. Within the framework of the AI4PPP project, we have developed three modules at our faculty:

The use of AI in tourism:

https://www.ai4ppp.eu/results/educational-materials/traveler-experience/

The future of drivers in autonomous vehicles:

https://www.ai4ppp.eu/results/educational-materials/future-of-drivers-in-autonomous-vehicles/

Supply Chain Management and AI:

https://www.ai4ppp.eu/results/educational-materials/supply-chain-management-in-manufacturing/

As part of this project result, the project partners have developed a curriculum that offers ideas that can improve the way current teaching in higher education takes place in the MBA and MA Business student population, which are extremely value-oriented.

This project will include three main curriculum tasks: the curriculum, which serves as a contract, the curriculum, the permanent document, and the curriculum as a curriculum. The curriculum serves as a contract between the instructor and the students, clearly describing the details of the program. It is designed to communicate content, purpose and goals.  A learning-focused curriculum is one that focuses on students and what they need to make learning effective. Such a curriculum will provide students with more useful information in addition to the aforementioned contractual and documentary material. It will provide students with information on task planning, performance evaluation, and time and resource scheduling. This will help students develop organizing skills that are useful even outside of an individual subject. In addition, the plan will provide guidance for learning in the course, assessing readiness to work in the course, and opportunities for assistance. It will also help to understand the course content in the context of the student’s study program. Finally, the curriculum will serve students as a model of professional thinking and writing. Our special attention and the separate result of the curriculum project represent the importance of this task in terms of both academic and advisory value. Since AI is a very vague topic for most, curricula will be the first point of contact on the road to effective AI education.

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DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) is a fast but well-established job analysis technique. The DACUM procedure is used to determine the competences to be addressed in the training curriculum for a particular profession. DACUM is used to develop job profiles for all types of occupations, including top managers and specialized jobs. This cost-effective technique has been validated by research and compares very positively with other methods of workplace analysis.

DACUM is based on three premisses:

1. Professionals can better describe their work than anyone else.
2. each workplace can be effectively described by the competences or tasks performed by successful workers in that profession,
3. The specific knowledge, skills, attitudes and tools necessary for workers to perform their tasks properly may also be described.

Therefore, AI4PPP project partners conducted DACUM analysis with non-ICT high-level managers from various industries in Croatia, Slovenia and Spain. On this basis, a final document on the DACUM analysis was drawn up, which will largely serve partners in the next phases of the project, especially for curricula and the development of educational materials.

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In order to ensure a comprehensive, high-quality educational curriculum in AI, it was necessary to explore what educational curricula in higher education institutions (in particular MBAs) and other educational providers in partner countries already offer, and on the other hand to analyse current market needs in terms of competences and experiences required for professions using AI.

Project output 1 therefore focused on producing a detailed report reviewing the challenges different stakeholders face in approaching AI, with the aim of describing the potential of AI and the steps needed to successfully implement curricula in higher education institutions and the business sector and identify educational needs, with the aim of filling the gap.

For organizations to be successful and competent, they need to create a competitive advantage, and this project will offer training for professionals among MBA candidates or decision makers already at the C level to gain an advantage by transforming business processes to achieve real, tangible results.

This result provides a background for designing and structuring curricula, educational materials and pilot cases, which are envisaged in the next steps.

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On 24th of March 2022 the Project Partners’ Meeting took place the. During the first meeting, the partners of consortium have discussed aspects of the Project Management and the preparation of the Gap Analysis – in order to understand the AI potential in each of the partner countries.