Jim Devine is the Former President of IADT, now Principal at Devine: Policy | Projects | Innovation in Ireland. This presentation was delivered as part of his keynote speech at the 2014 EDEN Annual Conference in Zagreb. http://www.eden-online.org

1. Challenging the Paradox of Progress
Jim Devine

2. Beetle to Golf Mk7 – a motoring metaphor

3. We built them like this
while developing
from roads
like this
to carriageways
like this

4. Now we build them like this
to drive on roads like this

5. …at least sometimes!

6. DESIGN IMPETUS QUALITY, STANDARDS
and REGULATORY PULL
FACILITATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE
ALIGNMENT

7. Learning in the 21st Century… misalignment?
DESIGN IMPETUS QUALITY, STANDARDS
and REGULATORY PULL
FACILITATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

8. The Digital Learning Landscape

9. European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’

10. ‘Open Education’ – still a contested landscape

12. European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’: DIAGNOSIS

13. European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’: CURE

14. European Commission: ‘Opening Up Education’

19. “It is difficult to get a man to
understand something, when
his salary depends on his not
understanding it”
Upton Sinclair

20. Addressing the need for ICT Skills in Ireland
Available at www.hea.ie

23. Source: Kendall
A case of systemic double loop learning?

24. http://hea.ie/sites/default/files/ict_evaluation_web_final_12.03.14.pdf
ICT Skills Conversion: Evaluation of first two cycles

25. http://hea.ie/sites/default/files/ict_evaluation_web_final_12.03.14.pdf
Springboard Programme: Evaluation of first three cycles

26. Case Study 1
Higher Diploma in Science in Cloud Computing – EQF Level 6
Course Leader: Tim Horgan

27. “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

29. Case Study 2
EQF Level 6 EQF Level 5 CPD Diploma CPD Diploma
Awarding Body
http://www.digitalskillsacademy.com

30. “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

33. “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

34. “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

36. jimdevine@icloud.com
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