How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OCN London has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and OCN London awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OCN London.

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01What it is

The OCNLR Level 5 Diploma in Software Engineering with Artificial Intelligence combines advanced software development skills with specialist knowledge in AI. Learners develop expertise in object-oriented design, machine learning algorithms, web development and software project management, alongside a strong understanding of artificial intelligence concepts and applications. This qualification is ideal for those seeking to progress into software engineering roles with an AI specialism or to continue to higher-level study.

These are the units OCN London registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OCN London. It does the teaching and the mapping. OCN London sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

Free first step

Try a free Future Fluency lesson first

The free part is a Future Fluency lesson on using AI at work. It is not part of this qualification. Next, a free account. We build your plan for this qualification as you set up. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Real unit · OCN London
This unit provides learners with an understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, principles, and techniques. You'll compare classical AI approaches, explore applications and limitations, and consider ethical issues related to AI development and use.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand key concepts, principles and techniques in artificial intelligence, demonstrating a comprehensive grasp of the field.
  • Understand and compare the classical artificial intelligence techniques, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Understand typical applications and potential limitations of approaches in AI, recognising their practical implications.
  • Understand the importance and effects of ethics in artificial intelligence models, considering the societal impact of AI.
Machine Learning Algorithms Real unit · OCN London
This unit provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of machine learning concepts, principles, and algorithms. You'll explore evaluation methods for AI tasks and understand relevant programming libraries and techniques.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand machine learning concepts, principles, and techniques.
  • Understand appropriate solutions for evaluating artificial intelligent tasks using various tools, methods and techniques.
  • Understand a range of machine learning algorithms and the relevant theories, concepts, and principles.
  • Understand programming libraries used for machine learning.
Object-Oriented Design and Implementation Real unit · OCN London
You'll gain knowledge of fundamental object-oriented design principles and concepts, including encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. This unit covers developing object-oriented software applications to support reuse and maintenance using a suitable programming language.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand fundamental object-oriented design (OO) principles (such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism) and concepts (such as classes, objects and message passing) and describe their importance in software reuse, and maintenance, explaining the benefits of OO programming.
  • Use a suitable programming language to develop an efficient and reusable OO software application, applying practical skills in OO development.
  • Implement appropriate underlying data structures to store and manipulate data in an OO program, selecting and utilising suitable data structures.
  • Understand the benefits of software reuse and the limitations of using object-oriented software applications, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of OO programming.
Project Real unit · OCN London
You'll learn to analyse a problem brief, create a project specification and plan, and apply professional, social, legal, and ethical codes of conduct. This unit also covers data confidentiality, integrity, availability, and appropriate project management practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse an outline of a problem brief and determine a specification, plan, processes, resources, and tools to undertake a programme of work for the project.
  • Apply professional, social, legal, and ethical codes of conduct, practices and responsibilities and safety/security related issues related to your project work.
  • Understand the key concepts of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
  • Deploy appropriate theory, practices, and tools to analyse, specify, test, implement and evaluate systems, using appropriate development approaches to scope, time-manage and organise a project.
Software Project Management Real unit · OCN London
It teaches you to analyse factors influencing the success or failure of software projects at project and organisational levels. You'll identify measures to minimise failure and understand the software life cycle and project management principles.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse and evaluate the factors contributing to IT ventures' success (or failure) at both the project and organisational level, identifying key determinants of project outcomes.
  • Identify and reflect on the actions or measures that may be taken to minimise the failure of a software project, proposing strategies for risk mitigation.
  • Understand the software life cycle, its processes, and application, demonstrating knowledge of software development methodologies.
Web Development Real unit · OCN London
You'll understand the components, processes, and technologies involved in web application development. This unit covers developing interactive, responsive web applications using modern tools and techniques while assessing interface quality and security considerations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the components, processes and technologies behind an interactive web application, demonstrating knowledge of web development architecture.
  • Develop an interactive web application using modern tools and techniques, applying practical skills in web development.
  • Understand responsive applications and assess the quality of the interface of a web based interactive application, evaluating user experience and design principles.
  • Understand the importance of security and demonstrate how security techniques can be applied to an interactive web-based application, implementing measures to protect against vulnerabilities.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Assist in developing and validating machine learning solutions

    Standard
  • Develop and implement machine learning algorithms

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 171 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Machine Learning Engineer

This work can lead to a lead or staff scientist role, a machine learning manager or principal scientist position, or a director of machine learning or AI role.

See the whole journey
05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OCN London rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Introduction to Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning AlgorithmsObject-Oriented Design and ImplementationProjectSoftware Project ManagementWeb Development

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Object-Oriented Design and Implementation” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Object-Oriented Design and Implementation” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Software Project Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, one of this qualification's own units.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit provides learners with an understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, principles, and techniques. Learners will compare classical AI approaches, explore applications and limitations, and consider ethical issues related to AI development and use.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for OCNLR Level 5 Diploma in Software Engineering with Artificial Intelligence

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OCN London.

  1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  2. Machine Learning Algorithms
  3. Object-Oriented Design and Implementation
  4. Project
  5. Software Project Management
  6. Web Development
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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