Adobe Creative Cloud Helps Students Gain Creative Digital Literacy
Fu, now a medical student at the University of Colorado, is far from alone in his assessment of a skill set that some describe as “creative digital literacy.” Today, employers in almost every field expect the college graduates they hire to have experience in digital media creation. Many demand proficiency in the tools of the trade, including those offered in the Creative Cloud suite.
“It used to be that these kinds of skills were only for students in the graphic arts — a very small sliver of the population,” says Todd Taylor, the Norman and Dorothy Eliason Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “But now we see digital media transforming every industry, and that’s led a lot of universities to take another look at their…