About the Authors

With over 28 years’ experience as an educator, Eithne Hogan has accomplished a wide diversity of roles. She is currently the coordinator of the Datacenter Academy Program supported by Microsoft, in the college she teaches in. With Microsoft’s partnership and expertise, there is a fully functional 3 rack mini scale datacenter lab in the college, which was built in November 2019, to support the teaching and learning of datacenter technologies and server administration to aspiring technicians. Eithne is the coordinator and instructor of this program and coordinates the traineeship. She is also is a part-time lecturer in other higher education universities, and delivers the content of several CompTIA certifications there. Additionally, she currently manages the college’s local Cisco Network Academy, personally holding certificates of recognition in Instructor Excellence and 9 years of active service and participation. Furthermore, the CompTIA Academy partnership is now operational 23 years in the college. Eithne oversees this affiliation. Regarding IT, Eithne has written and developed curriculum that is nationally recognised and delivered. This curriculum includes network infrastructure, network topologies, network administration, and switching, routing and wireless technologies. Eithne is the Digital Lead for the community college and alongside other colleagues, she collaborates and drives the transformation to the digital landscape in teaching and learning practices.