The disruption caused by the integration of technologies, Industry 4.0 (Mian, Salah, Ameen, Molduddin, & Alkhalefah, 2020, p. 1), is far and wide. Cyber-physical systems occupy nearly every sector from agriculture (Liakos, Busato, Moshou, Pearson, & Bochtis, 2018) to healthcare (Matheny, Whicher, & Israni, 2019). One of the major reasons for this is because the fourth industrial revolution “(4IR) capabilities createContinue reading “Industry 4.0’s Disruption of Curriculum”
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Industry 4.0’s Disruption of Pedagogy
Along with Industry 4.0’s disruption into HEIs’ curriculum, it is impacting education’s pedagogy – simply put, Industry 4.0 is requiring HEIs to evolve in both what it teaches and how. Klippel, Zhao, Jackson, La Femina, Stubbs, Wetzel, Blair, Wallgrün, Oprean (2019) went as far as to say “immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality [elements of IndustryContinue reading “Industry 4.0’s Disruption of Pedagogy”
Five Pressures Forcing HEI to Change
National Enrollment Volatility Enrollment has a direct impact on HEIs’ operations, and national trends are far from simple. Between 2001 and 2019, national U.S. postsecondary enrollment saw highs and lows spanning a delta of 6M students (National Center for Education Statistics, n.d.). Compounding that figure was the number of HEIs that lived in that space. At the peak inContinue reading “Five Pressures Forcing HEI to Change”
The Digital Revolution of Education 