Life Long Learning

Lifelong learning is about creating and maintaining a positive attitude to learning both for personal and professional development. With the vision of making life better, our Lifelong learning course are developed to help learners to gain knowledge and learn new skills throughout life. Our courses offer learners with many distinctive benefits, such as adaptability to the fast-changing market, exploration of different career paths and various job opportunities.  

 

Our program offers an innovate approach to lifelong learning, as we focus on professional development through the corporation with training centers, universities and big industries. Emerging technologies are also applied during the whole course such as VR/AR based learning environments in order to bring more interesting and effective learning experience to our learners. Course content and materials are designed by NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) to provide opportunities to: 

  • - Support youth career and impact aspirations 

  • - Support aspiring working adults acquire new skills, knowledge and qualifications from a leading University 

  • - Enable companies and industries to stay competitive  

Our course will be conducted in Singapore, up to 45 participants, including 3 days of data analytics, a key smart city capability, comprising hands on practical training and 2 days of smart city management and/ or development, comprising facilitated classroom discussions, and public and private sector learning visits 

 

          3-DAY DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALISATION FOR MANAGERS  

This course provides an exploratory tour of big data, data analytics, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. It introduces the various tools and techniques used by data science teams today. A roadmap of how to build an internal data science competency in an organization will be discussed. The course provides exposure to building static and interactive graphics using Tableau and Orange including a demonstration on the building of actual analytics models in Orange. At the end of the courses, participants should be able to: 

  • - Understand what is Big Data, Data Science/Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 

  • - Describe and manage the data analytics process and workflow 

  • - Understand the various tools used for analysis and data platforms required to support the analytics process  

  • - Identify the competencies required to build a data science team 

  • - Understand the tools for visualization and building data science models  

 

2-DAY SMART CITY MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING  

This program unpacks the multi-dimensional story behind Singapore’s smart city journey. Through experiential learning, unique insights, actionable strategies and inspiration, we will explore the role urban planning, connectivity, private-public partnerships, and sustainability play in building a smart city.  

Participants get an opportunity to do a deep-dive into transformation projects such as One North and Marina Barrage, as well as engage with practitioners from leading agencies such as the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Land Transport Authority, and Housing Development Board.  

Smart city programs we can develop include the following examples:  

  • - Smart tourism 

  • - Smart logistics 

  • - Disruption by ICT and digital services  

  • - Smart marine economy