Creating Futures – working at the convergence of arts, technology and enterprise at IADT

Marion PalmerMarion.palmer@iadt.ie

HEAnet's National Networking Conference 200813 November

IADT’s Vision

• To be at the forefront of teaching, research and innovation at the convergence of the arts, technology and enterprise and to contribute to Ireland’s development as a creative knowledge economy. (IADT, 2008, p. 13).

IADT

• Specialist position in HE

• Graduates work in creative, cultural and digital media industries

• Focus on enterprise development and applied research

• Creative knowledge economy– Convergence between arts, technology and

enterprise

Learning, teaching and assessment

• ‘The digital shift’

• Educating the creative workforce

• Students

• Universal higher education

IADT Learning Teaching and Assessment Strategy

• Aim 1. Developing knowledge, skills and competencies• Aim 2. Supporting student learning • Aim 3. Preparing students for life after IADT

• Student-centred• Relevant to the curriculum • Relevant to the discipline/practice• Developing attitudes towards convergence and working

across disciplines

Educating the creative workforce McWilliam and Haukka, 2008

• Creativity – outcome of adaptation

• Creative capital • Economic significance

– Importance of digital content industries – 2.6% of EU GDP (Runge, 2008)

• Role of ICT– Development of personal learning networks

• Changing role of teacher

Digital media

• Creation of media content

• Delivery of media

• Enabling technologies http://www.mediacube.ie/digital-media/

Convergence of the arts, technology and enterprise

• Curriculum design– Year 2 Enterprise students eBay business– Multimedia tools in fine art programmes

• Teaching and learning strategies– Visual communications students developing programme

brochure– Use of Blackboard

• Assessment – Psychology students designing courses in Blackboard– Graduate projects website

Visual arts students arts practice supported by a website

Paul CurranFilm and Television Production

Zorlax and the Time Travellers

Zorlax and the Time Travellers is a game show for 10-14 year olds. Zorlax is the Master of Time. ALL HAIL ZORLAX! He sends the time travellers back in time to retrieve precious time crystals. Zorlax demands silence! We made a pilot episode in IADT and our aim now is to gain a commission.

Donal Mangan Animation

Louise Glynn Multimedia Systems

Sandra Kelly Model Making

Model of an Aston Martin car in 3D Max

Institute initiatives

• National Film School http://www.nationalfilmschool.ie/• Library Social Networking Initiative • Student Care website• FÍS http://www.fis.ie/ • FÍS Book Club http://www.fisbookclub.com/

• IADT Innovation projects– 6 week summer projects run since 2004– Film and entrepreneurship students creating DVD of

entrepreneurs as a learning resource– Visual communications and multimedia students developing

Institute websites

Student Care website http://www.iadt.ie/studentcare/stucare.html

Research

• Entrepreneurship/public culture studies• Psychology/human computer interface

– Centre for Creative Technologies and Applications http://ccta.iadt.ie/ccta/aboutccta.php

• Creative arts and media• GradCAM www.gradcam.ie/ • NDRC www.ndrc.ie

• Technology-intensive nature of research • Forthcoming project

– CAVE www.iadt.ie/en/InformationAbout/NewsEvents/Title,1374,en.html

GradCAM

Innovation

• Create Programme – http://www.createireland.ie/

• Digital Media Cube – Business Incubation Centre http://www.mediacube.ie/

• Creating Futures conference 29 October 2008 2009 European year of Creativity and Innovation

• Electronic Arts Dublin 2009 http://www.isea2009.org/

Convergence of the arts, technology and enterprise – enablers

• Storage media

• Broadband access

• Tools of production (Harris, 2008)– Affordances for designing, editing and content creation

(McWilliam and Haukka, 2008, p. 662)

Three trends

• Level of expectation of service of network users

• Alternative pathways for students and staff

• Informal developments that complement and support the formal provision

Expectations and demands

• Technology demands of learning in digital world

• Expectations

• Issues

Alternative pathways

• Independent websites

• IM

• Web 2.0 tools

• Outside the box

Informal developments

• Material uploaded to YouTube

• Social networking groups

• Student and graduate blogs

YouTube and IADT

• IADT FIS Community/Access Summer Project Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPiD_6ij1Q

• Film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvidBSEVkWk • Animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=jhnWfQLKyoU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDBDSG29q0

• Model making http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ1MfPTyQEY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clNhDXENc3w

Shift happens

• Preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t exist . . . in order to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

Conclusion

• Getting the technology to keep up with the demand and expectations – running to keep up

• ICT departments – are you– Sage on the stage/Guardian of ICT– Guide on the side / Facilitator of tech use– Meddler in the middle / Where do you want to go and how

can we help you get there?

References

• Harris, R. (2008) Google and Innovation, Paper presented at Creating Futures Building Ireland’s Cultural and Creative Economy, 29 October 2008 IADT.

• IADT. (2008). Creating Futures IADT Strategic Plan 2008-2012. Dun Laoghaire: IADT.

• McWilliam, E. And Haukka, S. (2008). Educating the creative workforce: new direction for twenty-first century schooling. British Educational Research Journal, 34(50), pp. 651-666.

• Runge, J. (2008) The Economy of Culture and Creativity in Europe, Paper presented at Creating Futures Building Ireland’s Cultural and Creative Economy, 29 October 2008 IADT.