You can complete one short course as a standalone credential or stack multiple to build towards a full postgraduate degree at Deakin. Want to know more?
Course overview
This short course explores artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in modern IT systems and the digital economy. Designed for professionals with an IT background, it focuses on practical approaches to building and integrating AI solutions within technical environments. Learn core principles, development methods and how AI impacts enterprise architecture and workflows.
After completion of the course, you will be able to apply these skills immediately in your workplace:
- Design and implement AI-driven applications tailored to industry requirements
- Integrate machine learning models and AI techniques into existing systems and platforms
- Solve complex technical challenges using data-driven AI strategies
- Communicate AI architectures, models and outcomes effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Entry requirements
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
Industry organisation and expert
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with industry experts. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Dr Nayyar Zaidi is a senior lecturer in computer science at Deakin University’s School of Information Technology, and researcher in data management, data science, computer vision, multimedia computation, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Earn a digital credential
We’ve teamed up with Credly to award you a digital credential when you complete this industry-recognised stackable short course, plus you can bank the credit towards a Deakin postgraduate degree. You can also share your digital credential on social and professional platforms.
Course structure
How you'll learn
Learn directly with industry experts in small groups to build your own expertise and incorporate relevant industry knowledge and knowledge in your context. Your learning is supported in a dedicated course site for online discussion and activities with an educator and fellow learners.
What you'll learn
During the short course you’ll:
- identify, assess and utilise AI innovations to address real-world problems in the context of modern organisation and society
- engage with societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues in the identification, design, development and management of AI solutions.
How you’re assessed
Your assessment requires you to work through a series of tasks tailored to your learning goals, allowing you to build a comprehensive portfolio of evidence. You will be required to respond to feedback or questions posed by the teaching team, which may include audio or video recordings or participating in online meeting to demonstrate your understanding of task and their associated concepts. This approach allows you to take your learning further and apply it in real-world scenarios.
Reshaping university education
An innovative learning structure delivered by a leading university. With more than 40 years’ experience in distance and online education, we’re proud to be adding this unique study format to our courses, providing you with more choice to further your career and fulfil your lifelong learning needs.
Ready to enrol?
We're offering a limited number of subsidised places – study four emerging technology short courses for only $800, a saving of $3,600.
Did you know you can apply credit to a postgraduate degree?
Unsure what degree you want to study? Study two short courses that interest you and apply both as credit towards a wide range of postgraduate degrees at Deakin – from business administration to nursing, sustainability to communication and more.*
*Subject to successful completion of the short courses and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Limits on elective space in a destination degree are outlined in specific degrees’ course rules within the Deakin University Handbook. Typically, a maximum of four stackable short courses can be used as credit (2 credit points) towards a masters; and two stackable short courses can be used as credit (1 credit point) towards graduate certificates and diplomas.
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