IA20150 Design a Digital Future

Academic Year 2023/2024

Are you excited about discovering how emerging technologies can benefit your studies and future careers? According to the latest World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report, most technologies are expected to have a positive impact on jobs and skills, nearly a quarter of all jobs (23%) globally will change in the next five years.

Regardless of your field of study, it is important to develop a digital mindset that empowers you to navigate the fast-paced and ever-changing modern workforce. A digital mindset is a way of thinking and acting that enables you to use new technological skills to open up opportunities for self-growth and success in a rapidly changing digital economy.

In this module, you will explore cutting-edge technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, NFT and metaverse. Through hands-on experiences, real-life examples, group activities, and individual reflections, you will gain a beginning level of practical experience with these emerging technologies.

This module is designed for students coming from all academic backgrounds, especially for those who are from non-tech fields but wish to develop digital fluency. To gain an actual understanding of all the buzzwords you have heard about, you will also cultivate essential skills like communication, problem-solving, adaptability and technical proficiency, preparing for the rise of new career paths driven by digitalization and automation.

This module focuses on real-world relevance, and you will evaluate the implications of emerging technologies for self-resilience and career sustainability. You will be familiarized with the new job opportunities enabled by technologies such as prompt engineer, AI ethicists/ethics experts, metaverse architect, Web3 marketer, metahuman doctor, smart contract lawyer.

By enrolling in the Design a Digital Future module, you'll develop a digital mindset that enables you to navigate an uncertain future with confidence and cultivate essential skills that will benefit you in your future studies and career.

For more details, please go to: https://www.innovationacademy.ie/courses/ucd-undergraduate-module/


Notes:

Enrollment in an Innovation Academy module means a commitment to active participation and engagement, which necessitates attendance at all scheduled classes.

We limit our class size to 20 students or less. We require a minimum of 16 participants to ensure enough people for teamwork and a dynamic classroom environment. On very rare occasions, if fewer than 16 registered students register, we will offer students the opportunity to join another class.


UCD Innovation Academy :

About Us

At the UCD Innovation Academy, we are a group of Educator Practitioners with extensive real-world experience as academics, business and social entrepreneurs, tech thinkers, creative professionals and design thinking practitioners.
We take an action-oriented approach to learning, with a combination of individual, group and class tasks and activities, including discussions, presentations and reflection. All of our teaching is grounded in academic rigour, and our focus is on learning from doing in a real-world context.

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