Thank you again to all attendees, it was a thought provoking and sometimes surprising session. It was heartening to hear that the skills of design, problem structuring, interpretation and communication are thought by everyone to be very important. Most important of all - critical thinking and assessment!

  Greetings educators We are proud to announce an exciting seminar coming up on 14th December between 5 and 6pm: ‘Embracing the fourth industrial revolution: Industry perspectives on the impact of AI’ with four industry leaders in the field: Marilena Karanika Marilena is Head of Data Innovation at Experian, she has over 10 years’ experience in credit risk modelling and analytics and has won the WiCA 2021 Award for Innovator of the Year. She is passionate about the power of financial education and collaborates with universities and professional bodies to deliver talks promoting a wider understanding of analytics as we move toward a more ethical and inclusive future of work. Balagopal Madhusoodhanan Bala is Principal Architect, Supply Chain & Intelligent Automation at TJX inc., a top AI voice on LinkedIn, and is involved with Meal Corp Inc. (Chief Data Ninja!) who are on a mission to foster education for impactful low code digital transformation. He has a particular interest in ...

Latest podcast produced by Allen Higgens our resident podcaster and media wizzard:  Annunziata Esposito Amideo is an Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems at University College Dublin and a member of the OR Society. Nunzia chats with Allen about her work as a researcher and educator in business analytics: The challenges surrounding the academic/industry interface. Knowing when to talk with clients in relatable concepts. Knowing when and how to communicate through words, visuals, and in numbers. We need to think of it as practical and applied mathematics, while being happy to express ourselves in pure mathematics if necessary. Also, a view on essential skills, competency and abilities to be able to perform data analytics professionally.

Greetings Fellow Educators, One of the great things about this forum is the chance to network with clever and invested people who really care about analytics education. At the end of September we had our first online session with a talk from Xue Zhou from Queen Mary University of London She described a scheme to embed Peer Led Teaching & Learning (PLTL) which has had remarkable results in improving not only grades but engagement as well. We could not record but I have summarised the event in this post. Many of us have tried Peer Led Learning (PLL) where students help others, perhaps in lower years or different programmes, to engage effectively with learning in the classroom. Maybe you have tried mentoring programmes where students mentor others in modules previously undertaken? These are often undertaken with some level of recognition given to the peers and some learning activities to help guide their mentoring.  With PLTL the peer guide students are given lessons in education ...

The BAEF is very pleased to announce the launch of our webinar series to sign up please follow this link and fill in the form to be sent an invitation to the event.