The changing world: Understanding the impacts of technology

Summary of Learning:
Technologies impact people and society by transforming, restoring and sustaining the world in which we live. This course will aid participants to consider the impact of technologies including the generation of digital solutions to problems. The course will provide an understanding of how technology impacts your life and how it aids collaboration and using creativity to generate new solutions to problems to drive transformation. The course will also explore how new emergent technologies (such as wearables, AI and VR/AR) can shape new experiences and problem solving in radical new ways

The Learning Objective:
1. Develop an understanding of technology progression in society has transformed business and society and the role that emergent technologies will play in the near future.
2. Develop an understanding of how digital technologies are used to solve problems to meet personal, societal and organisational needs.
3. Develop an understanding of the needs to develop new regulatory and ethical approaches in dealing with emergent technologies such as Artificial intelligence.

Digital Badging – a new way to gain qualifications!

Digital Badges are used by educational and learning organisations as competency-based signifiers of achievement. Now you can achieve a civilian university recognised academic credential, being a Digital Badge from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) through completing any Cove+ unit and passing the test of objectives.

For a 10 hour course, organisations like QUT often charge over $600 for this type of training and the issue of a Digital Badge.

If your course is an AQF 4 or 5 level course (vocational), you can do a ten question quiz to gain a badge. But be careful, this isn’t Campus course, you need to know the content to pass! If your course is an AQF 6 or 7 level course (undergraduate), then you need to submit an 800 word essay which will be assessed by a QUT lecturer.

Digital Badges are issued within 10 working days of unit completion.

You can share your Digital Badges to your LinkedIn profile, note it on personal CVs, and even include it in email signature blocks. See the examples below of a Cove+ module Digital Badge.