Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • Nancy W. Gleason

   Pages 1-11Open Access

3. Higher Education Themes in the 4IR Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Twenty-First-Century Education

      • Pericles Lewis

      Pages 15-38Open Access

   3. Educational Mobility and Transnationalization

      • Peidong Yang, Yi’En Cheng

      Pages 39-63Open Access

   4. Academic Library Futures in a Diversified University System

      • Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas

      Pages 65-89Open Access

4. How Education Has Begun to Adapt: Case Study Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Innovation Education in China: Preparing Attitudes, Approaches, and Intellectual Environments for Life in the Automation Economy

      • Rosaline May Lee, Yanyue (Selena) Yuan

      Pages 93-119Open Access

   3. Regenerative Development in Higher Education: Costa Rica’s Perspective

      • Eduard Müller

      Pages 121-144Open Access

   4. Singapore’s Higher Education Systems in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Preparing Lifelong Learners

      • Nancy W. Gleason

      Pages 145-169Open Access

   5. Adopt Fast, Adapt Quick: Adaptive Approaches in the South African Context

      • Bo Xing, Lufuno Marwala, Tshilidzi Marwala

      Pages 171-206Open Access

   6. The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Higher Education

      • Bryan Edward Penprase

      Pages 207-229Open Access

This open access 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.

• Open Access and Education
• Higher Education and the Digital Revolution
• Fourth Industrial Revolution and Education
• Automation Economy and Employment
• Educational Credentialing
• Singapore’s Future Economy
• Online Learning
• Credentialing and Up Skilling
• Global Education Networks
• Higher Education Innovation
• China’s Higher Education System

• Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore

  Nancy W. Gleason

Nancy W. Gleason is Director of the Centre for Teaching & Learning at Yale-NUS, Singapore, where she overseas faculty development in teaching and student support in learning through the distinctive pedagogy of the liberal arts. She is a Senior Lecturer of Global Affairs in the Social Sciences Division, teaching and researching on pathways of globalisation, higher education, liberal arts education in Asia, and the fourth industrial revolution.