Challenging the Paradox of Progress

Jim Devine

Beetle to Golf Mk7 – a motoring metaphor

We built them like this

while developing from roads

like this

to carriagewayslike this

Now we build them like this

to drive on roads like this

…at least sometimes!

DESIGN IMPETUS QUALITY, STANDARDS and REGULATORY PULL

FACILITATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

ALIGNMENT

Learning in the 21st Century… misalignment?

DESIGN IMPETUS QUALITY, STANDARDS and REGULATORY PULL

FACILITATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

The Digital Learning Landscape

European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’

‘Open Education’ – still a contested landscape

European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’: DIAGNOSIS

European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’: CURE

European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not

understanding it”

Upton Sinclair

Addressing the need for ICT Skills in Ireland

Available at www.hea.ie

Source: Kendall

A case of systemic double loop learning?

http://hea.ie/sites/default/files/ict_evaluation_web_final_12.03.14.pdf

ICT Skills Conversion: Evaluation of first two cycles

http://hea.ie/sites/default/files/ict_evaluation_web_final_12.03.14.pdf

Springboard Programme: Evaluation of first three cycles

Case Study 1

Higher Diploma in Science in Cloud Computing – EQF Level 6

Course Leader: Tim Horgan

“Coming from a town planning background, I had absolutely no background in IT but wanted to up-skill in a high employment industry due to the downturn in construction related activity ”

Ciara Conlon, now Project Leader in the Global Technical Support Team, VMware, Cork

Cloud Computing Programme at CIT

Case Study 2

EQF Level 6 EQF Level 5 CPD Diploma CPD Diploma

Awarding Body

http://www.digitalskillsacademy.com

“Previously I was an architectural technician…I graduated with a post-

graduate CPD Diploma in digital production, specialising in applications development. I am now working full-time as a software quality assurance

engineer in an award winning and cutting edge online software company.”

Neil Fletcher – from architectural technician to software quality engineer

“You’re among amazing, fantastic, truly

inspirational and impactful people and it

really makes you step up your game”

Eoghan McCabe, founder of Intercom - his experience of Silicon Valley, having raised $22m in investment

“You have to have advocates…an ‘advocate of you’…who believes in you and supports you”

Louise Phelan, VP for Global Operations at PayPal in Ireland

jimdevine@icloud.com

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