What does the 4th and 5th industrial revolutions entail for higher education?
What kind of role will Higher Education Institutions play? Drivers of the transformations or followers?
What kind of accreditation systems will be required?
What type of organizational structures to support the change?
Who will be the key stakeholders? The whole system?
How can adaptive change be supported to engage with the transformations required?
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Higher Education, a driver or a follower of the 4th and the 5th Industrial Revolutions?
1. Higher Education,
a driver or a follower
of the 4th and the 5th Industrial
Revolutions?
Wits University
Paula Morais
2. Questions
What does the 4th and 5th
industrial revolutions
entail for higher
education?
What kind of role will
Higher Education
Institutions play? Drivers
of the transformations or
followers?
What kind of
accreditation systems will
be required?
What type of
organizational structures
to support the change?
Who will be the key
stakeholders? The whole
system?
How can adaptive change
be supported to engage
with the transformations
required?
3. January 2016: 4th Industrial Revolution
Augmented reality by Tom is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Neil Harbisson cyborgist.jpg
by Dan Wilton/The Red Bulletin is licensed under CC BY 2.0
4. January 2016: 4th Industrial Revolution
Up Town Spot by Boston Dynamics
5. January 2016: 4th Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab
Founder of the World Economic Forum
lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres become indistinct, evolve at
exponential pace, disrupting all industries in every country, leading to systemic
transformations.
6. August 2016: 5th Industrial Revolution?
Sunshine Pollution by Daniel Lerps is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0
Misquote! Oh the Irony... by Hanoian is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
2.0
7. August 2016: 5th Industrial Revolution?
Voyage by Audionautix is licensed under CC BY 4.0
8. August 2016: 5th Industrial Revolution?
The Anthropocene
Working Group
voted to consider
Anthropocene
as the new geological
age.
The 5th industrial
revolution, with
cleantech and
renewable energies,
has just started Anthropocene-GreatAccelerationSocioEconomicTrends-1750-2010 by Bryanmackinnon is licensed
under CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Industrial Revolutions
end of 1700
1st Industrial Revolution
1900
2nd Industrial Revolution begin
of 1900
1950
3rd Industrial Revolution begin
of 1950
1980
4th Industrial Revolution Midst
of 1980 (term is coined in 2016)
2016
5th Industrial Revolution
Anthropocene
12. What does the
4th and 5th
industrial
revolutions
entail for
higher
education?
Knowledge, research, attitudes,
co-create - exponential and
disruptive/ different mindsets
13. What does the
4th and 5th
industrial
revolutions
entail for
higher
education?
Knowledge, research, attitudes,
co-create - exponential and
disruptive/ different mindsets
Ethics and philosophy
artificial intelligence (AI),
biotech, robotics, cleantech
14. What does the
4th and 5th
industrial
revolutions
entail for
higher
education?
Knowledge, research, attitudes, co-
creators - exponential and disruptive/
different mindsets
Ethics and philosophy artificial
intelligence (AI), biotech, robotics,
cleantech
Engagement and interaction systems
/ key stakeholders/quadruple helix of
innovation
15. What does the
4th and 5th
industrial
revolutions
entail for
higher
education?
Knowledge, research, attitudes, co-creators -
exponential and disruptive/ different mindsets
Ethics and philosophy artificial intelligence
(AI), biotech, robotics, cleantech
Engagement and interaction systems / key
stakeholders/quadruple helix of innovation
Validation of knowledge, attitudes
accreditation systems for peer learning,
certification industry led, AI, MOOCs, assessment
16. What does the
4th and 5th
industrial
revolutions
entail for
higher
education?
Knowledge, research, attitudes, co-creators -
exponential and disruptive/ different mindsets
Ethics and philosophy artificial intelligence (AI),
biotech, robotics, cleantech
Engagement and interaction systems / key
stakeholders/quadruple helix of innovation
Validation of knowledge, attitudes accreditation
systems for peer learning, certification industry led, AI,
MOOCs, assessment
Formal and organizational structures global, regional,
glocal, local; academic, research and administrative
and what else?; systems, processes, policies, strategies
17. How can adaptive change be supported to engage
with the transformations required?
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