Applied AI NL
educational vision

You learn by making

Our educational vision in one sentence: you learn Applied AI by doing real work with it — inside your own organisation, with AI as a learning tool, and with a portfolio that shows what you can do.

how we look at learning

Four principles

You study alongside your job. That is not a constraint to work around but the starting point: every day you have a practice in which you can put what you have learned straight to use. This programme is built on that.

Learning in practice

Your assignments come from your own work. What you learn on Monday, you use on Tuesday.

Learning with AI

From the very first lesson you use AI to learn: explanation at your level, practice without waiting.

Feedback before judgement

You hear what could be better while you can still act on it. You learn from every version, not just from the grade.

Evidence over grades

No single test defines you. Your portfolio shows, across the board, what you are capable of.

vision

A vision on learning, making and assessment

Learning

AI as the goal and as the means

You are trained to design, build and manage AI solutions. But you do not wait four years to use AI: you learn with it from the first lesson. Bots explain the material at your level, practise with you, ask critical questions and give feedback the moment you need it.

Learning with AI is learning twice over: you train the skill and you learn the tool you will later build yourself.

Making

Your portfolio is your evidence

You conclude each theme with a professional deliverable or a technical solution addressing a real situation within your own work, which you discuss in an assessment with your lecturer. Not a fictional case, but something that matters in your organisation.

That way your portfolio grows with real work — and your employer benefits directly. In the end you have more than a degree: a body of AI implementations you built yourself.

Assessment

Programmatic assessment

We assess programmatically: many small moments instead of one decisive exam. Every conversation, every deliverable and every round of feedback is a data point about your development.

So the whole picture counts, not one bad afternoon. Assessment here is above all meant to move you forward — the judgement follows from the picture you build across the entire programme.

what this means for you

What do you notice as a student?

Curious how this works in class?

Come and meet us

Email or call the programme team — or first read how you learn at Applied AI.

onepager for students (pdf) · onepager for employers (pdf)