Courses

Innovation & technology

Course overview

This course offers students a general awareness and basic understanding of a range of emerging technologies, as well as their relations with innovation and sustainability.

Course content

The course topics covered include blockchain, AI, robotics, quantum computing, and other industry 5.0 technologies with a deep dive into the business applications of blockchain technology.

Students are expected to solve cases that involves technical complexity and management considerations. By the end of the course, students should reach an intermediate level of understanding at the crossover between business and technology.

Duration

The course is designed for eight weeks of content, with seven lectures, seven workshops, and one presentation sessions during which groups will present their solution to the case.

Assessment

Group assignment: case to be addressed using a process innovation methodology in combination with a palette of digital productivity tools.

Registration

Please send an email to the international office of the Faculty of Business & Economics at AUAS: . Tell them the name of the course you would like to register for. Afterwards, they will send you the registration instructions.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Identify emerging technologies and their stages in the trend
  • Explain the application of technology in the automation of business activities
  • Interpret the impact of emerging technologies on stakeholders
  • Construct technical, practical, feasible solutions to real-life business cases
  • Examine technologies for their business values in the industry 4.0
  • Present findings in an academic manner

Enrollment

Send an email to the Amsterdam UAS international office: . Please, use your email address of your home university and add the name of the course you would like to register for. After that, you will receive the registration instructions.

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Dear Sir/Madam, my name is X and I study/work at the U!REKA partner X. I would like to register myself for the following course: X . Could you please send me the registration instructions so I can officially register for the course?

Many thanks in advance and looking forward hearing from you.

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Course information

Category

Digital skills

Format

Online

Target groups

U!REKA students

Academic year

Starting month

Language

English

Duration​

The course is designed for 8 weeks of content, with 7 lectures, 7 workshops, and 1 presentation sessions during which groups will present their solution to the case.

Organising institution​

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Places reserved for U!REKA participants​

To be announced

Assesment

Group assignment

Credit/degree/certificate

4 ECTS credits

Course fee

None

Prerequisites

None