[LINK] [EFA-Privacy] AI education and Re: InnA: Santow reprises the Robodebt Failure

[Roger Clarke]

On 9/9/21 10:15 am, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Oh fudge. I don't think the image I posted made it through the list.
> It's in a newspaper so I'll have to retype:
> 
> The Bachelor of Cognitive Enterprise is a new business degree
> that equips students with the skills and knowledge to use
> disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain
> technology.
> 
> This degree, co-designed with IBM, has been created in
> response to future industry needs.
> 
> The new degrees [this was one among others in the story]
> will start in 2022.
> 
> ---
> 
> Now the email I sent may make more sense!

The email does, but the degree-name?  Agreed:  Not much.

I guess it means that 'knowledge management' and 'business intelligence'
have had their day and been put out to pasture, and new buzzphrases are
needed to make it seem as if there's something new out there.


Aside:

Does it make sense for a Federation Uni to buy something, rather than
forge an association with it?  Oh, silly me, it's just a name.

Did they buy Churchill campus as well?

I'm a (now well-justified) sceptic about university amalgamations.

But I feel less jaundiced about the likes of CSU in NSW, and Federation
in Vic, to the extent that their H.O. is regional, and they have a much
better chance of recognising that each region has and wants to have its
own flavour, and hence they may be a bit more tolerant of difference and
less imposing of 'city knows best' uniformity.

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> On 9/09/2021 9:44 am, Jan Whitaker via Privacy wrote:
>>
>> On 9/09/2021 9:27 am, Roger Clarke via Privacy wrote:
>>> Robodebt was technology ‘beta testing’ on most vulnerable citizens
>>> Joseph Brookes
>>> Innovation Aus
>>> 8 September 2021
>>> https://www.innovationaus.com/robodebt-was-technology-beta-testing-on-most-vulnerable-citizens/
>>>
>>
>> Spotted in our local paper announcing new degrees from Federation
>> University (which I think used to be University of Ballarat? but now
>> has branches around the place, having bought out the Monash Berwick
>> campus):
>>
>> Talk about a gobbledygook name!
>>
>> Jan
>>
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