Department of Lifelong Learning Lifelong Learning 2016 Embracing Lifelong Learning, Planning for a Better Future CHOOSING YOUR CAREER PATH IRELAND AND IT’S PEOPLE: A HISTORY Historical Figures in Ireland joinat our us information evening Tuesday 6th September 2016 5.30pm to 8.30pm Athlone Institute of Technology register Evening & Part-Time now Prospectus 2016-2017 www.ait.ie with compliments Information and Registration Evening Tuesday 6th September 2016 5.30pm to 8.30pm Welcome to Lifelong Learning at AIT With a focus on real-world engagement, AIT’s approach to teaching and learning gives students the knowledge and skills essential for career success. This professional orientation is embedded across all facilities, with programmes offered from higher certifcate through to PhD, across its departments of business, humanities, engineering and science. Connect & Discover www.ait.ie /athloneinstituteoftechnology @AthloneIT /AthloneIT 100% 99% of Lifelong 97% of Lifelong of Lifelong Learning students Learning students Learning said they received rated our service students would enough support to them as they recommend us from us as they registered as to their family decided what good to excellent and friends course to choose 95% of Lifelong 70% of Lifelong 90% of Lifelong Learning Learning students Learning students students said felt they enhanced rated their entire they would their knowledge educational probably or and skills that will experience as defnitely study contribute to their good to excellent at AIT again employability 100% 100% of of Lifelong Lifelong Learning Learning students students believe state that the the Induction is fees installment brilliant, structure is necessary and excellent informative 47% of Lifelong what our Learning students choose our students say courses for work, 53% do so for about us... their own personal development Background image – ‘Dichroic planes’ by Douglas Mooney, currently on display in the Nursing and Health Sciences Building, AIT Sources: ISSE survey 2015, Lifelong Learning New Entrants Survey 2015 Welcome from the President The National Report on Lifelong Learning in Ireland (LLL2010) states that welcome approximately 300,000 adults take part in both formal and informal education each year in Ireland. In AIT Lifelong Learning is an integral part of our programme offerings and the vision for Lifelong Learning in AIT is that it will be distinguished by outstanding fexible learning channels, positive student experience, community and enterprise impact and delivering a distinctive regional and national contribution. In 2014, the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs noted that businesses are becoming more specialised requiring higher levels of skills and Lifelong Learning plays a key role in equipping people with the skills to address these needs. AIT is energised by the opportunity to engage proactively and creatively approximately with the Lifelong Learning community and in doing so presents a suite 300,000 of programmes designed to best fulfll the needs of the Lifelong Learner. adults take As you embark on your lifelong learning journey our expert team in the part in both Department of Lifelong Learning is ideally placed to point you in the right direction, and to answer any questions you may have. The evidence formal and of the success of their approach is there for all to see – in the thousands informal of students and graduates who have successfully taken the precise steps education you are now considering. each year in Beir bua. Ireland Professor Ciarán Ó Catháin President 2 mission statement To provide student-centred, career-focused education, training and applied research programmes for our diverse cohort of learners within a professional and supportive environment. We are fully committed to intensive engagement with regional business, enterprise and social communities while maintain our global orientation. Lifelong Learning 3 welcome Ireland 2016: Welcome to the 2016-2017 Department of Lifelong Embracing Lifelong Learning, Learning, Evening and Part-time courses prospectus. As you work your way through the various programmes, Planning for a Better Future. I hope that you will fnd at least one course that meets Remember, Refect, Reimagine your requirements. Our mission in the Department of Lifelong Learning is to provide student-centred, career and work-focussed education, training and applied research programmes for our diverse cohort of lifelong learners within a professional and supportive environment. In doing so, we deliver our programmes in a fexible manner using a mix of innovative blended and online delivery channels. Our objective, to assist you the learner obtain a third level qualifcation in as fexible a manner as possible, while also accommodating your work, family and indeed other life commitments. This year, recognising that it is 100 years since the Easter Rising of 1916. We have decided to use this prospectus as an example of how we can all learn, enabling us all embrace the concept of lifelong learning, in a non-academic way through the innovative use of this prospectus as a channel. And, through this we hope that you will Remember, Refect and Reimagine. Connect to So, as you work your way through this prospectus, we hope that in Your Future addition to learning about the range of courses on offer this academic year that you are reminded of the history of the 1916 Rising. In 4 particular, we have chosen to refect on those that were executed. joinat our us information evening Tuesday 6th September 2016 5.30pm to 8.30pm The 1916 Rising was a seminal event in our history. It was led for the future. In doing so, I hope that you will Remember our by men and women who held aspirations for a different type of past through the 1916 achievements, Refect on the aspirations, Ireland. One which would guarantee religious and civil liberty visions and events. And, that when you do, that you begin to and would pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole Reimagine your future and take up the challenge by registering for nation, and all of its parts. So in recounting the history, we are also that programme that interests you by contacting the Department commemorating these events on this their anniversary and mourn of Lifelong Learning. the loss of all those who died. And, following this, I look forward to meeting you at the Through the use of this delivery channel ‘the prospectus’, we are Department of Lifelong Learning Induction on September 17th as also recognising that those of the 1916 Rising had aspirations and you begin to achieve your ambitions in partnership with us and the visions. And that you and I 100 years later are no different, as broader AIT community. you and I have aspirations and visions, to pursue happiness and prosperity for ourselves, our families and the whole nation. Cuimhnigh, Smaoinigh, Samhlaigh But, like those of 1916, our aspirations and visions will not happen See you in September! by chance. They will only be achieved through careful planning and continual learning. Indeed, we can now argue that it is now ‘our responsibility’, those of us living in 2016 to develop the vision and aspirations of 1916 further, past 2016, to 2066 and beyond. Dr Michael Tobin It is my contention that this future will be all the more enriched Head of Department of Lifelong Learning if we are all to embrace lifelong learning. In the Ireland of 2016: Embrace Lifelong Learning and Plan for your better future. So as you browse this prospectus I hope that you will fnd a fexible programme that will enable you achieve your aspiration and vision 5 APPLIED LEARNING 21 Become Assertive and Improve 22 your Self-Esteem and Confdence Welding for Beginners 22 Know Your Car 23 Automotive Diagnostics 23 Introduction to Digital Photography 24 Introduction to Interior Design and Decorating 24 welcome BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 25 Higher Certifcate in Business - Level 6 26 Bachelor of Business - Level 7 27 Bachelor of Business (Hons) - Level 8 28 Certifcate in Project Management - Level 6 29 Certifcate in Social Media 30 Applications and E-Business - Level 6 Certifcate in Marketing, Sales Theory and Practice 31 Level 6 Diploma in HR Practice (CIPD) 32 Diploma in HR Management (CIPD) 33 Contents LAW 35 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Law - Level 8 36 Certifcate in Constitutional and Family Law 37 What Our Students Say About Us 01 Level 6 Welcome from the President 02 ACCOUNTING 39 Welcome from the Department of Lifelong Learning 04 ACCA Certifed Accounting Technician 40 Springboard Courses 08 COMPUTING/SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 43 Department of Lifelong Learning Programmes 09 Certifcate in Software Development - Level 6 44 Awards and Qualifcations 12 Certifcate in Mobile Application Development 45 Work Placements and Vetting Procedures 13 Level 6 Certifcate in Smart Home Technology - Level 6 46 Registration and Fees 15 Higher Diploma in Computing - Level 8 47 Department of Lifelong Learning Induction 16 Microsoft Offce Specialist (MOS) Certifcation 48 Prior Learning Accreditation 18 Introduction to Android App Development 49 with MIT/Google App Inventor Learning Supports 20 Cisco Introduction to Networks CCENT 50 AIT Lecturer Profles 34,38,42,54,72 Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching 51 Factors to Consider When Returning to Education 82 Web Design and Development 52 Important Information 106 Adobe Photoshop 53 6 ENGINEERING/QUALITY MANAGEMENT 55 SCIENCE 89 Certifcate in Fundamentals of Quality Assurance 56 Certifcate in Occupational Health and Safety 90 Level 6 (National Irish Safety Organisation