Application Deadline:  10th August 2026

Duration:  28th September 2026 - 7th May 2027

This Part-Time Higher Diploma in Business (Level 8 - 60 credits)in Digital Content Creation will equip graduates with the capability and skills set to develop content for building digital assets.

What is Digital Content Creation?

Students will acquire the skills to create content to grow a digital sales pipeline and understand how to attract customers in a digital landscape.

They will utilise SEO and analyse the data emerging from these tools and they will be introduced to platforms used by businesses to manage online sales.

This is a practical, hands on programme and assessments are all project based. This will enable students to become proficient in the area of content development. The programme incorporates a work-based project, which will involve working on projects relating to their employment or their own business ideas. Students who are currently seeking employment will be offered the opportunity to go on a work placement, or research and develop an e-portfolio of digital content of their choice.

On completion of the programme students will be able to:

• Understand the role of digital marketing in delivering strategic marketing objectives
• Conduct a critical evaluation of a range of social media platforms as marketing tools
• Design and create a business website
• Create, assemble and edit images, video and audio using appropriate software tools
• Produce auditory and visual promotional material
• Demonstrate technical proficiency across a range of content creation tools and platforms through the creation of an e-portfolio
• Research a real world business scenario and create a suite of digital artefacts to support it
• Curate and synthesise learning and material from the other three modules in the programme
• Think critically about digital business and marketing
• Improve proficiency in writing and documentation for future proposal documentation to customers

Springboard+ is co-funded by the Government of Ireland, via the National Training Fund, and the European Union.

Springboard+ is a Government initiative offering free and heavily subsidised courses at certificate, degree, and masters level leading to qualifications in areas where there are employment opportunities in the economy.

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