IADT Connect Module 2025
The aim of this module is to:
- support the transition to level 8 study
- give students an overview of their chosen discipline
- enable students to collaborate with and gain knowledge of the other disciplines in the Faculty and their place within it
- enhance students’ Critical and Creative Thinking and their communication skills
- focus on the First Year Experience and help students to get to know each other and the Institute
The module content was updated to include the N-TUTORR themes. It was delivered online, meeting the N-TUTORR theme of Digital Transformation.
| Sessions were run on: | |
| Equality, Diversity + Inclusion | Active* Consent |
| Academic Integrity | Minding your Mental Health |
| Universal Design for Learning | Intro to the Library |
| Employability | Disability Awareness + Assistive Technology |
| Sustainability | Anti-Bias |
Students formed interdisciplinary groups to create a Digital Artefact representing their view of the faculty or N-TUTORR themes.
| Students who took part in this shared module are studying the following undergraduate programmes: | |
| Animation | Game Design |
| Applied Psychology | Graphic Design |
| Art | Immersive Media Production |
| Creative Computing | Photography + Visual Media |
| Creative Music Production | Television |
| Design for Film | 3D Animation |
| Film | |
Here are exemplars of some of the students' work for the FFACT Connect module 2025:
Digital Transformation
Sustainability
Faculty of Film, Art + Creative Technologies
Equality, Diversity + Inclusion
EDI Sessions were curated by Emma Balfe and run on:
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- Active* Consent
- Active Bystander Training
- Onscreen Diversity + Workforce Inclusion – Adaku Akafor
- Gender Identity + Expression Training
- Traveller Cultural Awareness in the Arts – Mary McDonagh, Producer
- Social Class in Ireland
N-TUTORR
An N-TUTORR funding application was awarded to the module lead, Louise Glynn. This was used to employ ten students to help redesign the FFACT Connect module and create associated digital media content. This project ran in May/June ’23. The module lead showcased the module redesign at the N-TUTORR Showcase 2024 through a Lightning Talk, a Digital Poster, and an Interactive Display of students’ Digital Artefact assignment submissions.
SAGE
A Best Practice case study on the EDI elements of the FFACT Connect module has been published by SAGE in 2023, which is the equivalent of Athena Swan in Australia. The EDI elements were coordinated by the IADT EDI Manager, Claire Mc Ging and sessions were delivered by Claire, Rachel Skelly (IADT Consent Officer), Adaku Okafor (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant) and Mary McDonagh (Traveller Cultural Awareness Consultant)
https://sciencegenderequity.org.au/resources/initiatives/embedding-edi-into-a-mandatory-module-for-first-year-students/