The fastest growing, most diverse and dynamic segments of the Australian economy exist in creative industries with the dominant segment being software development and interactive content (Crean, 2009).
Creative practitioners with commercial talent are mainstream and embedded across the entire Australian economy (CCI, 2013) and while computer coding and computational thinking is an all important new literacy, we need to place just as much emphasis on time to teach fundamental skills in design methodology, experimentation, business skills (enterprise), user experience (UX) and interaction design.
Jobs of the future need a training strategy now