Given the speed of developments in Artificial Intelligence, there is an urgent need to integrate the field into university curricula, so as to prepare students for the decisive role the technology is set to play in shaping the global economy.
With this in mind, the Bodossaki Foundation, the Eugenides Foundation, TITAN and Accenture Greece are supporting a collaboration between the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and MIT which seeks to formulate a new higher education model centred on Artificial Intelligence.
This new partnership gives thousands of NTUA students full access to MIT’s OpenCourseWare and MITx platforms, as well as to the MIT Universal Artificial Intelligence (UAI) programme. The latter includes structured modules covering both the fundamental principles of Artificial Intelligence and its applications in fields including medicine, clinical trial design, climate and ethics.
The collaboration also introduces an innovative hybrid learning model in which active learning tools are combined with automated exercises, exams and, certification, plus support from AI tutors. In parallel, NTUA faculty will play an active role in developing high-quality educational materials; having been made available to students, this material may at a later stage be integrated into the MIT UAI international platform, thereby bolstering NTUA’s role as a knowledge production and dissemination hub.
Through this initiative, the Bodossaki Foundation is helping to promote innovative educational approaches that meet the needs of today’s society and economy, while highlighting the importance of collaboration between non-profit foundations, the private sector and the academic community in forging links between Greek higher education and cutting-edge technologies.