Abstract
Portugal’s education system offers a variety of non-degree programs essential for career advancement where Executive Education encompasses a critical role. Within this context, advancements have been made in recent years, both in the Executive Education field, as in the Interactive Digital Design education field. Nonetheless, ongoing challenges are still widely identified, from competition, technology advancements, institutional and societal changes, and efficient cooperation between Creative Industry and Academia. Based on an ongoing research aiming to establish a dynamic skill set framework in the Interactive Digital Design field for Executive Education postgraduate courses, this study applies a Delphi method to gather expert contributions on the evolution of Interactive Digital Design field, the professional profile and the essential skills needed for this area. With this method is intended to seek consensus over a set of 68 questions summarized from a first round stage, where valuable insights from main stakeholders were gathered –both from academia, the creative industry and students – revealing past and present trends on Interactive Digital Design, the evolution of required and expected skills, challenges, and opportunities in the field. The findings revealed a strong consensus over the presented topics among the participants with a high level of agreement, given way to the definition of a skill set to meet current and future professional needs and thereby guiding executive education’s management in this field. The establishment of a skill set that may support postgraduate courses curricula design on an ever-shifting societal and technological landscape, aiming to better prepare professionals for the Interactive Digital Design sector, may represent an asset of great relevance in curricula governance and design. The attained knowledge is expected to support as a valuable resource for higher education institutions seeking to refine their educational offerings in response to evolving industry demands, societal changes, and technological advancements, thereby advising the strategic outlining, and guiding the design of future curricula.
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Bruno Nobre, IADE - Universidade Europeia, Portugal
Emília Duarte, UNIDCOM/IADE - Universidade Europeia, Portugal
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Conference: ECE2024
Stream: Curriculum Design & Development
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Nobre B., & Duarte E. (2024) Interactive Digital Design Skill Set: Crafting Executive Education Curriculum for the 21st Century ISSN: 2188-1162 The European Conference on Education 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 973-990) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2024.75
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2024.75
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