Portugal’s education system offers a variety of non-degree programs essential for career advancement where executive education has a critical role. Despite advancements in executive education courses, with its focus on a more customized and tailored learning experiences, Interactive Digital Design education field faces ongoing challenges due to competition, technology evolution, institutional and societal changes.
With its focus on postgraduate Interactive Digital Design courses, is proposed 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.
This research applies a Delphi method with experts’ contributions on the essential components of a postgraduate program in interactive digital design based in ongoing research on the subject with IADE as a case-study, where valuable insights from main stakeholders were gathered – from both academia and the creative industry – revealing past and present trends on Interactive Digital Design, the evolution of required and expected skills, challenges, and opportunities in the field.
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.

Authors:
Bruno Nobre, IADE, European University of Lisbon, Portugal
Emília Duarte, UNIDCOM & IADE, European University of Lisbon, Portugal

About the Presenter(s)
Bruno Nobre is currently a professor at IADE and collaborates with UNIDCOM/IADE researching digital media and curriculum design for Executive Education in Interactive Digital Design courses.

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