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Persuasive Technology Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Computer Science via distance learning
Persuasive Technology via distance learning
This program of persuasive technology explores a dynamic, interdisciplinary field of research that focuses on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies that use persuasion and social influence techniques to influence people’s behavior. It is used in any area of human-human or human-computer interaction and it is applicable to sales, diplomacy, politics, religion, military training, public health, and management. The design of persuasive technologies can be seen as a particular case of design with intent. The ultimate goal is to encourage the adoption of healthy habits.
Academic Supervisor : Ahmad Khodaverdi Darian
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Persuasive Technology Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Persuasive Technology.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Aeronautical Technology - Automotive Technology - Biotechnology - Building Technology & Design - Domotics - Educational Technology - Information Technology - Process Instrumentation Technology - Robotics & Automation - Technological Management - Technological Science .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Persuasive Technology Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Persuasive Technology via distance learning = Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Persuasive Technology Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Persuasive Technology via distance learning = Academic credits + 60 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Computer Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Internet Studies.
Master's Degree - Persuasive Technology Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Persuasive Technology via distance learning = Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Computer Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Internet Studies. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Persuasive Technology Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Persuasive Technology via distance learning = Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Computer Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Internet Studies. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Persuasive Technology Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Internet Technology
This course provides a study of the architecture, utilities, services, and protocols of the Internet and World Wide Web. Topics cover markup languages (e.g. HTML), data location resources (e.g. search engines and agents), web page management, scripting languages, TCP/IP, IP routing and servers, reliability, security, electronic commerce, and virtual worlds.
Academic Supervisor: Javier Fernandez Salgado
Information Technology
This course provides updates on the development in the field of information technology and prepares students to properly and effectively use these technologies in any project. Students will learn hardware and software functions to solve problems commonly found in information technology systems, database systems, networks, peripherals, and telecommunication systems.
Academic Supervisor: Javier Fernandez Salgado
Media Influence
This course describes and evaluates various strategies that attempt to explain individuals' and groups' reaction to media. It explores the theories of media influence and public attitude change. It explains what it means (politically, economically, culturally, and morally) to live in a culture in which a major portion of information comes to the citizen through multiple channels of mass communication.
Academic Supervisor: Eduardo Cano Camarero
Consumer Behavior
This course focuses on the major theories needed to understand consumer behavior, such as evoked set, brand loyalty, brand learning and memory, motivation, attitudes and attitude change, perception of innovations, product meaning, lifestyle and personality differences, culture and social class, and family buying influences.
Academic Supervisor: Isabel del Rio Villar
Personality & Social Development
This course explores the processes of social and personality development. It focuses on four key areas of research: cognition, attachment theory, language development, and moral development. It also addresses the issues and debates about the role of genes, gender, socialization, and neurological development as interacting forces that affect how infants and children acquire self/other awareness, identity, and social competence.
Academic Supervisor: Djaber Nacer Eddine
Cyberspace Law
This course focuses on the legal issues confronting the participants in Cyberspace. Whether considered as a Virtual Space, the Internet, or simply the Web, Cyberspace embodies a challenging interaction of law, public policy, technology, and market. In the context of cyber culture and technology, this course examines the key contemporary procedural and issues including jurisdiction, governmental regulation of pornography and indecency, privacy, intellectual property, and evolving Internet commerce. It also focuses on the investigation and prosecution of computer crimes.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison
Data Science
This course of data science uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from data. It analyzes the process of collecting, transforming, cleaning, and modeling data with the goal of discovering the required information. Data science is related to data mining, machine learning and big data.
Academic Supervisor: Alex Vuginshteyn
Fake News
This course of fake news examines the untrue information presented as news. Fake news are those stories that are fabricated, with no (sometimes partial or decontextualized) verifiable facts, sources or quotes. Fake news nurture a larger ecosystem of disinformation. They may have the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, create propaganda to mislead the reader, or may be designed as “clickbait” written for economic incentives. The prevalence of fake news has proliferated via social media, because they are so easily and quickly shared online.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda
Digital Privacy
This course of digital privacy examines the rights of individuals to determine how their digital information is collected and used, to exist freely on the internet, and to choose what types of information they are exposed to. In this context, communication privacy states the right to communicate information digitally with the expectation that those communications are secure and only accessible to the sender's original intended recipient. Digital Privacy encompasses information privacy, communication privacy, and individual privacy.
Academic Supervisor: Alex Vuginshteyn
Social Psychology
This course discusses the theoretical aspects as well as the current research in social psychology in order to improve people’s understanding of themselves, others, and their surrounding society. It includes topics such as social influence, attitude change, and persuasion, stereotyping and prejudice, social recognition, social interaction and group processes, liking, loving, interpersonal attraction, altruism and aggression, and daily human judgment.
Academic Supervisor: Djaber Nacer Eddine
Big Data
This course of big data explores the use of predictive analytics, user behavior analytics, or certain other advanced data analytics methods that extract informative value from large or complex data sets. Big data is characterized the large volume of data in many environments, the wide variety of data types stored, and/or the velocity at which the data is generated, collected and processed.
Academic Supervisor: Alex Vuginshteyn
Growth Hacking
This course of growth hacking takes every aspect of the sales funnel to find the best strategies to grow. It looks for (or creates) new ways to acquire new customers and retain them at low-cost expenses. While finding ways to reach new audiences sounds like marketing, growth hackers take the extra steps to exceed expectations.
Academic Supervisor: Thiyagu Nagaraj
Technology Ethics
This course of technology ethics explores the application of ethical thinking to the practical concerns of the use of technology. New technologies give us more power to act, which means that we have to make choices we didn't have to make before. Some ethical dilemmas derived from technology are: digital addiction (many people are addicted to technology), breakdown of truth (it’s becoming harder to tell what’s real and what isn’t); ideological polarization; manipulation through persuasive technology, and many other mental and emotional issues derived from the excessive impact and dependency of the use of technology.
Academic Supervisor: Ahmad Khodaverdi Darian
Social Engineering
This course of social engineering explores how to manipulate individuals and defined groups, which in occasions is used for unlawful purposes. Techniques rely heavily on psychological deception, technology and obtaining accurate information about the target’s behavior and preferences.
Academic Supervisor: Djaber Nacer Eddine
Persuasive Technology
This course of persuasive technology studies how to intentionally change human attitudes, behavior, or both through technology. It is based on persuasion and social influence, but not on coercion. Persuasive technology research focuses on interactive, computational technologies, including desktop computers, Internet services, video games, and mobile devices.
Academic Supervisor: Ahmad Khodaverdi Darian
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Persuasive Technology Online via distance learning
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Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
AFSCET - Association Française de Science des Systèmes Cybernétiques Cognitifs et Techniques
AISB - Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
FEDMA - Federation of European Direct and Interactive Marketing
IACIS - International Association for Computer Information Systems
IACSIT - International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology
IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals
IEICE - Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
IKMS - Information and Knowledge Management Society
IMI - Identity Management Institute
INFORMS - Information Systems Society
ISACA - Information Systems Audit and Control Association
ISC2 - International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium
ISSA - Information Systems Security Association
IT-ISAC - The IT Information Sharing and Analysis Center
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Admission requirements - Persuasive Technology
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
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Duration - Persuasive Technology Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
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Faculty of Computer Science via distance learning
Persuasive Technology Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
