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Industry 4.0 and digital transformation are hot topics in Latin America related to higher education. Some authors explore such topics from different points of view. However, we need to understand the context surrounding higher education in Latin America to weigh the challenges and opportunities these hot topics face in our region. Accordingly, in this chapter, we propose a knowledge representation of the context of higher education in Latin America based on the so-called pre-conceptual schemas. We aim to provide a framework for understanding how to implement the solutions proposed in the remainder of this book, related to the different fields of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. We start by performing a state-of-the-art review of the context of higher education in Latin America. Then, we identify the main concepts and relationships addressed in the resulting papers to unify terminology about this context. Finally, we develop the pre-conceptual schema, and we discuss findings based on such knowledge representation. Moreover, the pre-conceptual schema presented in this chapter can be used to identify interconnections and relationships among the diversity of solutions and cases proposed in this book.
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Spina, E., Zapata-Jaramillo, C.M., Simonette, M. (2021). Higher Education (HE) Across the Continent. How HE Is Addressed by Region. In: Burgos, D., Branch, J.W. (eds) Radical Solutions for Digital Transformation in Latin American Universities. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3941-8_1
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