Introduction -- Higher Education Themes in 4IR Context -- Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Twenty–first century education -- Educational Mobility and Transnationalization -- Academic Library Futures in a Diversified University System -- How Education Has Begun to Adapt: Case Study Assessment -- Innovation Education in China: Preparing attitudes, approaches, and intellectual environments for life in the automation economy -- Regenerative Development in Higher Education: Costa Rica’s Perspective -- Singapore’s Higher Education Systems in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Preparing Lifelong Learners -- Adopt Fast, Adapt Quick: Adaptive Approaches in the South African Context -- The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Higher Education.

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This 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.