1. Towards tomorrow’s successful digital citizens
Denise Oram:

2. Why do I need to know about this stuff?
What answers do we give to students who ask this question; are they the right answers?
What does the curricula cover and is it effective?
Motivation, attitude and engagement with students?

3. Measures achieved: ?
“undergraduate programs should prepare graduates to understand the field of computing, both as an academic discipline and as a profession within the context of a larger society” ACM 1991
“IT professionals must make value judgments on a daily basis and therefore students must be provided the skills to accept their roles as future practitioners and begin to grasp the responsibility that they will be asked to be as professionals and take consequences of their actions”
What has happened over the last 20 years?

4. Radical changes to our Society
New era, new problems; prevention rather than cure!
A new responsibility to develop new values into agreed standards to support change
A need to address means of education for future technology developers who can integrate an ethical dimension into their work
Predictable evolution/inability to predict future needs?
Building in quality processes – not additions as an afterthought
Education has to be the driver for change!