Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Support (Education & Training)

What is Information Technology Support (Education & Training)

The course embraces a wide range of information technology areas combined with modules in education and work-based training and provides the graduate with a solid grounding in the skills and competencies necessary to work as IT trainers in both the commercial/industrial training sector and the adult and further education sector.

Graduates of this industry-oriented programme will be equipped with the skills necessary to work as information technology professionals in a broad range of business and industrial training sector environments and they should emerge with the flexibility required for future career development in the rapidly changing IT environment.

A new integrated framework of programmes has been developed with maximum transfer and progression opportunities for students. This programme shares a common first semester with all students on the BSc in Computing programmes.

Why study Information Technology Support (Education & Training) at IT, Tralee?

• Theoretical and practical content
• State of the art facilities including MAC pros that will enable you to develop highly sought after skills and abilities
• Broad range of subject areas

What are my career opportunities

Roles graduates can undertake include:

• Training specialists in the fields of: Networking, databases, web design, multimedia
• Adult and Further Education (IT) Specialist
• Instructional Design, content authoring, courseware developer
• Technical Writing
• Applications development
• Web design, web development, internet development
• Multimedia design and development
• Network administration and management
• Database administration and management
• Technical support (Networks, Database Admin, Helpdesk, etc)

What facilities are available?

Students have access to state-of-the-art computer laboratories including specialist labs for mobile communications, multimedia, games development, network administration, computer architecture and software development. The Institute has a purpose built digital editing suite which allow students to edit video and sound files they have created in their project work. All computing students have access to e-learning systems (WebCT). The computing department at the institute leads the higher education sector in Ireland in the use of e-learning in its courses.