IBM SkillsBuild Initiative at AUS
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The IBM SkillsBuild Initiative is an innovative program that empowers students to graduate with hands-on experience on the latest technologies and tools that will help them build skills that are in demand for today’s workforce.
As an accredited institution with the IBM SkillsBuild Initiative, AUS has a first hand view into the latest technologies and business trends across several industries. AUS students and faculty members have access to certification training programs, tutorials, and real business use cases based on open standards and IBM technologies in key strategic areas such as AI, data science, automatization, cloud computing, and security.
As an accredited institution with the IBM SkillsBuild Initiative, AUS has a first hand view into the latest technologies and business trends across several industries. AUS students and faculty members have access to certification training programs, tutorials, and real business use cases based on open standards and IBM technologies in key strategic areas such as AI, data science, automatization, cloud computing, and security.
The IBM SkillsBuild Initiative program allows AUS students to receive IBM credentials as digital ‘badges’ marking their learning achievements using Credly. The students can easily share and promote their achievements on social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, as well as their own personal web pages and blogs.
IBM BADGES
Artificial intelligence
Cloud
Data science
Security
Duration: 5 hours
Getting Started with Enterprise-grade AI
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods, and tools related to the artificial intelligence domain. The individual has demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the foundations of Artificial Intelligence for business, including the following topics: AI Evolution, AI Industry Adoption Trends, Natural Language Processing and Virtual Agents.
Duration: 10+ hours
Building Trustworthy AI Enterprise Solutions
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods, and tools related to exploring the ethical adoption of AI technologies in the enterprise. The individual has demonstrated skills and understanding of the use of AI technologies for business, including: AI industry adoption trends, AI ethical considerations, Natural Language Processing, and Virtual Agents.
Duration: 20+ hours
Ethical AI Applications of Deep Learning and Computer Vision
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods, and tools related to the advanced concepts for AI adoption in the enterprise. The individual has demonstrated the application of advanced skills in the field of AI, including: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Visual Recognition, AI Ethics, and their application in real-world use cases.
Duration: 20+ hours
Building AI Solutions Using Advanced Algorithms and Open Source Frameworks
This badge earner demonstrates knowledge and understanding in technical and scientific concepts related to building AI solutions with open-source frameworks (such as TensorFlow and Keras) to make model predictions using regression, classification, and clustering algorithms such as Naive Bayes, Logistic regression, K-nearest neighbors, Polynomial Linear Regression, SVM (Kernel), Decision tree, and Ensemble learning, K means and DBSCAN for anomaly detection and computer vision.
Duration: 5 hours
Journey to Cloud: Envisioning Your Solution
This credential earner demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the digital transformation drivers made possible by cloud technologies and services. This includes: how cloud works, its capabilities, types, and delivery models (IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS); digital transformation strategies such as Agile practices, the IBM Garage Method, and Enterprise Design Thinking to help organizations get started on their transformation journey; and deploying a test pilot cloud application using IBM Code Engine.
Duration: 10+ hours
Journey to Cloud: Transforming Your Culture
This credential earner demonstrates knowledge and understanding in cloud adoption concepts such as cloud culture, modern cloud practices, and the corresponding roles, with a focus on cloud development practices such as DevOps & Agile. The credential earner explores technical concepts such as cloud-native architecture, microservices, containerization, and APIs and understands what organizational changes may be required when an organization decides to migrate its workloads to the cloud.
Duration: 20+ hours
Journey to Cloud: Orchestrating Your Culture
This credential earner demonstrates knowledge and understanding in the intricate relationship between the enterprises embracing the journey to Cloud adoption and the cloud service providers. The credential earner acquired advanced skills on cloud computing adoption concepts such as compliance, data management, data protection, cloud security, service management and operations, ITIL, incident, problem and change management, site reliability engineering, AIOps, and governance.
Duration: 10+ hours
DevOps for Enterprise Business Agility
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods, and tools related to the business application of cloud computing technologies for the enterprise. The individual has demonstrated skills and understanding of the new joint practice for DevOps business agility combining development and operations topics including: DevOps, Agile Culture, and the use of Toolchains for Continuous Delivery.
Duration: 10+ hours
Building Cloud-based Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise
This badge earner has completed all learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on labs, concepts, methods, and tools related to exploring the range of underlying cloud technologies used for application development. They demonstrate skills and understanding of the technologies behind the adoption of cloud for the enterprise including: Data services, AI cloud services, security practices for cloud-based apps, and multi-channel approaches for customer engagement.
Duration: 5 hours
Getting Started with Enterprise Data Science
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods, and tools related to Data Science roles and their use of technology applied to enterprise projects. The individual has demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the foundations of Data Science including: Data science team roles, Data analysis tools, and real-world use cases for the application of the Data science method.
Duration: 10+ hours
Enterprise Data Science in Practice
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience including hands-on labs, concepts, methods, and tools related to the data science methodology. They demonstrate skills and understanding of the Data Science methodology by engaging in real-wold scenarios and role-playing the process/tools used by a data science team to address real-world enterprise challenges in the insurance industry leveraging cutting-edge fraud analytics approaches and technologies.
Duration: 20+ hours
Machine Learning for Data Science Projects
This earner completed all learning activities included in this online learning experience related to advanced topics core to the data science profession including: Data Modeling techniques; Machine Learning; Deep Learning algorithms; Data Science Automation; demonstration of advanced skills application in the field of Data Science by role-playing critical roles in a data science team using latest AI tools for analytics/automation to address real problems.
Duration: 5 hours
Getting Started with Threat Intelligence and Hunting
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods and tools related to the threat intelligence and hunting domain. The individual has demonstrated domain knowledge and understanding in adopting practices, methods and tools that relates to the activities performed in cyber threat hunting.
Duration: 10+ hours
Enterprise Security in Practice
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods and tools related to the enterprise security domain. The individual has demonstrated skills and understanding in the approaches to elevate an organization’s overall security posture, by adopting practices, methods and tools that increase enterprise cyber resilience.
Duration: 20+ hours
Security Operations Center in Practice
This badge earner has completed all the learning activities included in this online learning experience, including hands-on experience, concepts, methods and tools related to the Security Operations Center’s domain. The individual has developed skills around techniques, technologies, roles and scenarios needed to establish the foundations of a Security Operations Center (SOC) within an organization.
With IBM digital badges, the learning achievement can be expressed as a shareable digital record. The digital record can provide all of the information needed by employers to decide on how much value to assign to the activity. The digital badge serves as a proxy transcript for the activity. 92% of survey respondents said IBM digital badges improve their employability.
This new collaboration between AUS and IBM illustrates our institution’s commitment to partnering with employers to provide new opportunities for our students to continuously advance their skills and achieve their professional goals.
This new collaboration between AUS and IBM illustrates our institution’s commitment to partnering with employers to provide new opportunities for our students to continuously advance their skills and achieve their professional goals.
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Studying a Bachelor Degree at the AUS students will acquire a broad base of knowledge in fundamental business practices, develop essential skills, and have the option to increase their knowledge in specific specializations from Accounting and Marketing.
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