Higher education in the era of the fourth industrial revolution / Nancy W. Gleason, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleason, Nancy W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--21st century.

Education, Higher.

Education and globalization.

Physical Description:

xix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ways in which different higher education institutions and education stakeholders are implementing adaptations, it looks at new programs and technological advances that are changing how and why we teach and learn. The book addresses trends in liberal arts integration of STEM innovations, the changing role of libraries in the digital age, global trends in youth mobility, and the development of lifelong learning programs. This is coupled with case study assessments of the various ways China, Singapore, South Africa and Costa Rica are preparing their populations for significant shifts in labour market demands - shifts that are already underway. Offering examples of new frameworks in which collaboration between government, industry, and higher education institutions can prevent lagging behind in this fast changing environment, this book is a key read for anyone wanting to understand how the world should respond to the radical technological shifts underway on the frontline of higher education.

Contents:

Introduction / Nancy W. Gleason

Higher education themes in the 4IR context. Globalizing the liberal arts : twenty-first-century education / Pericles Lewis ; Educational mobility and transnationalization / Peidong Yang and Yi'En Cheng ; Academic library futures in a diversified university system / Lorcan Dempsey and Constance Malpas

How education has begun to adapt : case study assessment. Innovation education in China : preparing attitudes, approaches, and intellectual environments for life in the automation economy / Rosaline May Lee and Yanyue (Selena) Yuan ; Regenerative development in higher education : Costa Rica's perspective / Eduard Müller ; Singapore's higher education systems in the era of the fourth industrial revolution : preparing lifelong learners / Nancy W. Gleason ; Adopt fast, adapt quick : adaptive approaches in the South African context / Bo Xing, Lufuno Marwala, and Tshilidzi Marwala ; The fourth industrial revolution and higher education / Bryan Edward Penprase.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

981130193X

9789811301933

OCLC:

1046683477