Micro-credential
Adaptability for Artificial Intelligence
Enhance your soft-skills and capacity to adapt so you can confidently navigate the changing world of work.
Start date
To be announced
Duration
6 weeks / 42 hours
Study mode
Online
Fees
$1190.00 AUD (inc GST)
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What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Constant changes in the labour market make adaptability an important soft-skill needed to meet workplace demands, particularly within our era of rapid and significant technological development.
This micro-credential is ideal for professionals of any sector who want to future-proof their careers and increase their adaptability within the complex world of work that is changing at an accelerated pace.
Explore individual and career adaptability
Learn about theories of individual and career adaptability, including the concept of Adaptability Quotient (AQ). Use these theories to reflect upon your own capacity to adapt and consider how they apply to your career cycle.
Analyse the gendered nature of workplace disruptions
Research finds that in today’s ever-evolving workplace, the key to women’s success is being able to keep up with constant changes. Consider the impacts of societal and workplace disruptions such as an ageing population and a looming care-giving crisis and analyse them through a gendered lens.
Adopt an agile learning mindset
Explore the benefits of an Agile Learning Mindset. Learn how to adopt and maintain this kind of thinking and behaviour by utilising non-technical skills such as communication, organisation, collaboration and flexibility.
Develop your own capacity to adapt to the future workplace
Develop your understanding about how adaptability as a soft-skill can be applied to key disruptions and challenges brought on by tech advancements. Learn to strengthen your own capacity at an individual and career level to cope with current and anticipated change in the workforce.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Professor Leah Ruppanner
Professor of Sociology, and director of The Future of Work Lab
Leah is a quantitative methodologist whose research focuses on the impact of gender equality and family policy on individuals’ lives through analysis of large cross-national data. Her research has been published in top-tier sociology journals and featured in Slate, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Conversation, and The Age. She is also a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course.
Lía Acosta Rueda
Research coordinator, The Future of Work Lab
Lía is an economist with expertise in public policy, gender, and monitoring and evaluation. Prior to joining the Future of Work Lab, Lía provided technical assistance for the design of impact evaluations of social policies in Mexico.
Sophie Squires
Research coordinator, The Future of Work Lab
Sophie is an anthropologist with an interest in gender, politics and the media. She works across various social and gender equality projects, including currently working on evaluating equal opportunity policies of local government and researching barriers to women’s representation.
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The Future of Women at Work series
The Future of Women at Work series examines the policy, digital skills and interpersonal approaches necessary to establish gender equity in our future workplaces.
The series also provides a pathway into the Master of Social Policy. See course details for more information.
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Fees
For individuals
To take Adaptability for Artificial Intelligence as a stand-alone micro-credential, you'll pay the normal course price.
$1190.00 AUD (inc GST)
Please contact Student Support to discuss discounts and payment options for University of Melbourne staff or alumni, or to pay by invoice.
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