An Experience Report of Executive-Level Artificial Intelligence Education in the United Arab Emirates
This addresses the challenge of AI education for business professionals in a specific region, but it is incremental as it reports on an existing teaching approach without new technical advancements.
The paper presents an experience report of teaching an AI course to business executives in the UAE, focusing on practical integration into business processes rather than just theory, with reflections on curriculum and teaching methods for adult learners.
Teaching artificial intelligence (AI) is challenging. It is a fast moving field and therefore difficult to keep people updated with the state-of-the-art. Educational offerings for students are ever increasing, beyond university degree programs where AI education traditionally lay. In this paper, we present an experience report of teaching an AI course to business executives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Rather than focusing only on theoretical and technical aspects, we developed a course that teaches AI with a view to enabling students to understand how to incorporate it into existing business processes. We present an overview of our course, curriculum and teaching methods, and we discuss our reflections on teaching adult learners, and to students in the UAE.