What modules are covered?

Core Units:

Business context: understanding the business environment including dealing with end user, customer and business needs, the value of digital in business and technical change management

Culture: ethical and moral issues raised by the increasing reliance on technology including impact on culture, autonomous operations and addiction

Data: concepts and fundamental of data including how organisations use data, key features and functions of information systems, data format, analysis and maintenance, data modelling and data across different platforms

Digital analysis: understanding algorithms, action and pattern recognition

Digital environments: systems fundamentals including physical, virtual and cloud

Learning: awareness of emerging technology trends and innovation

Legislation: legal and regulatory requirements and importance of industry standards, where to find them and staying up to date

Planning: principles of planning including cost benefit, dependencies, prioritisation quality and time

Security: understanding privacy and confidentiality of information, processes and protocols plus threats, vulnerabilities and risk management

Testing: importance of testing of components, interfaces, usability etc.

Tools: understanding digital tools and their use in business

The Digital Production, Design and Development Specialist Unit will allow students to:

• Analyse a problem to define requirements and acceptance criteria aligned to user needs

• Design, implement and test software
• Change, maintain and support software
• Create solutions in a social and collaborative environment
• Discover, evaluate and apply reliable sources of knowledge
• Apply ethical principles and manage risks in line with legal and regulatory requirements when developing software

What Next?

On completion of this course you could study a related subject at university-level or as an apprenticeship. Specialising in an area that interests you will provide plenty of future training opportunities

What previous qualifications and experience will I need?

From School:

Five GCSEs at grades 9-4
To include English and maths GCSEs at 9-4

From College:

Relevant level 2 qualification at merit grade or higher
English and/or maths at level 2 or higher