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Executive Education Sends One Student Home With More Than a Certificate
· New York time
Prabha Jha used her experience in MIT Open Learning's program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write a book, according to MIT News. She also collaborated with MIT peers on the book of AI insights. The account offers an example of executive education extending beyond the classroom. A program about AI can give leaders a structured setting to consider how the technology applies to their organizations, while collaboration with other participants can turn individual lessons into a shared project. Most professional courses promise that participants will take something back to work. Jha's version of homework included both workplace solutions and a manuscript. The certificate on the wall may have to make room for a bookshelf, while the ordinary course notebook wonders why its ambitions were limited to a few underlined phrases.
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