Reasons to choose this course
- 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 is the Bachelor of Sciencein Information Technology (Education and Training) about?
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.
How is the course delivered?
The course consists of a combination of lectures, practicals, tutorials, projects, seminars, presentations and speakers from industry.
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.
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)