Promoting the Growth of Fourth Industrial Revolution Information Communication Technology Students

Abstract

<jats:p>The purpose of this chapter is providing readers with an overview of the content promoting the growth of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the implications for information and communication technology (ICT) open distance e-learning (ODeL) students. Preparing students for the 4IR presents important and complicated opportunities towards changing higher education. Education should be about content design and delivery for teaching, learning, and assessment, with the profile of ODeL ICT students at the core. This chapter reports on issues, controversies, and problems arising from the 4IR. The mixed-method research approach adopted involved collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data obtained from first-year courses at a Southern Africa institution. The emerging picture cautions concerning students' real biographic information and digital literacy in a developing world context. The conclusion summarizes the content and informs instructors to examine their perceptions of student profiles regarding teaching, learning, and assessment in preparation for the 4IR. </jats:p>

The use of facial expressions in measuring students’ interaction with distance learning environments during the COVID-19 crisis

“…The spread of new technologies contributes to and facilitates the development of educational processes, as educators seek to use these technologies to meet the needs of their students. New technologies and the fourth industrial revolution are facilitating the spread of flexible learning which includes distance education, and face-to-face learning in a fixed space, as this technology facilitates teaching and learning ( Van Heerden and Goose, 2020 ). Distance learning is the ability to learn at a remote location.…”

Smart Learning Environment (SLE) in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0)

“…The emergence of industrial revolution (IR) 4.0 was introduced by the German's engineering society as an attempt to transform the interconnectivity for the widespread of adaptive integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the purpose of manufacturing process (Van Heerden & Goosen, 2020). By taking into account for the extensive link to have a sufficient adaptation, the systematic integration conventionally adopted to bring about the way to work in an appropriate manner could be deployed in addressing the latest technology development connected with the previously existing work system.…”

“…In advancing the smart technology pathway of expanding the learning performance, it is worthwhile to take a sufficient procedure of building the learning in the basis of anywhere and anytime context. In this perspective, considering the technological and pedagogical experts needs to arrange the integrated tool of massive data construction in supplying the learning sources in an online platform, so that the accessibility in pointing out the academic skills could be transmitted in influencing the sufficient support for learning effectiveness (Van Heerden & Goosen, 2020). In this view, the significant way to cooperate with collaborating the strategic partnership between teaching style and learning design is attempted to advance the mutual alignment in enhancing the implementation improvement in enabling the easiness to access the learning sources with smart technology pathway in IR 4.0.…”

The Contribution of Information and Communication Technology to Social Inclusion and Exclusion during the Appropriation of Open Educational Resources

“…Department of Higher Education and Training, 2019). The researchers chose ODeL as their main research context, as the universities concerned rely on ICT and OER to support their tuition and research in the e-learning environment (Van Heerden & Goosen, 2020). Once students are registered with the ODeL universities, they receive their study material online and or by post.…”