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Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Addresses key changes within higher education in response to the digital age

  • Considers the impact of the 4th industrial revolution and the automation economy on education worldwide

  • Offers key cases of how countries are preparing their populations for significant shifts in labour market demands

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction

    • Nancy W. Gleason
    Pages 1-11Open Access
  3. Higher Education Themes in the 4IR Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    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
    2. Adopt Fast, Adapt Quick: Adaptive Approaches in the South African Context

      • Bo Xing, Lufuno Marwala, Tshilidzi Marwala
      Pages 171-206Open Access
    3. The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Higher Education

      • Bryan Edward Penprase
      Pages 207-229Open Access

About this book

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.

Keywords

  • 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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore

    Nancy W. Gleason

About the editor

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

  • Editors: Nancy W. Gleason

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0194-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0193-3Published: 10 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4356-8Published: 29 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0194-0Published: 21 June 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 229

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Technology and Digital Education, Digital Humanities, Educational Technology

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