Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½X launches new online course: Digital Transformation and the IT team
- Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University’s has released a new online course aimed specifically at IT and business professionals.
Digital technologies are no longer the exclusive domain of the IT department, and IT can no longer be viewed simply as a support function within organisations.
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University’s (on the edX platform), has released a new course aimed specifically at professionals in the information technology field.
The course will help IT professionals understand what digital transformation truly means, how it impacts organisations, how it changes the role of the IT team, and reorient their thinking to a digital business approach.
This course explores the movement from an IT paradigm to a digital business technology (BT) paradigm. It also provides a deep view of the environment of simultaneous chaos and order in organisations that are rapidly digitising. Finally, learners will learn about the impact that digital transformation has on the role of IT and CIO teams. This information is critically needed by both IT and business professionals who are reorienting themselves towards a digital business approach.
- The lead academic is Dr Lucienne Abrahams, Director of the Learning Information Networking Knowledge (LINK) Centre, at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University.
- The course runs from 7 November to 5 December 2018.
- Additional information and to enroll:
ABOUT WITSX ON EDX
In 2014 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University became the first African University to partner with edX, the online learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) to a global learning audience.
The first three MOOCs on the was launched in 2016 and to date close to 48 000 students have enrolled for eight courses on the platform. Three more will be added to Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½X and will start running in the first half of 2019.