Results of pilot programme Learning Communities around AI

Myrna van de Water, the Applied AI Learning communities programme manager on behalf of lecturer platform PRIO: "With a kickstart project from the Dutch AI Coalition, six universities of applied sciences together with early adaptors from SMEs and public organisations, including governments, researched how to take up a challenge. For example, the energy transition in the built environment." The pilot with learning communities provided an opportunity to learn a lot from practical experience about how learning communities work and the importance of regional embedding.

 

An overarching, coordinating programme shared and secured the knowledge and experiences from the six trajectories. This programme was implemented by the umbrella lectors' platform for Practice-Oriented ICT Research, PRIO, with Windesheim as the lead and coordinator.
Erik Fledderus, lecturer Digital Business & Society at Windesheim and chairman of PRIO: "In the programme, the six cooperating colleges of higher education examined what common denominators they see in the application of AI. Such as certain actors, preconditions and tools, but also how AI can be used responsibly. With the aim of discovering together how to set up such a learning community. What are success factors and how useful are various models previously developed for learning communities in practice?"