Higher Education Developments and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student in educational management, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract

The fourth industrial revolution has made change and transformation inevitable in all systems of knowledge, wealth, power and dignity of human life, and accordingly, it has called higher education to rethink its structures and systems in order to respond to local-global needs. Therefore, the present study was compiled with the aim of presenting a new model and approach of education in the university system in accordance with the intellectual foundations of the fourth industrial revolution and Web 04. This research has been done in the framework of a qualitative approach (synthesis research / systematic review of texts) and Analytical-combined method. For this purpose, articles indexed in prestigious journals on the subject of "Education 04", "Industrial Revolution 04", "Web 04" were selected as the statistical population. With the selected search strategy, 50 articles were retrieved and then according to the criteria of peer-reviewed articles, 42 articles were selected and analyzed using the methods of comparative analysis and theme analysis. findings showed a comparative analysis of the four eras of the industrial revolution, web technologies and generations of education as well as content analysis; It has 1 comprehensive theme, 9 organizing themes and 44 basic themes. The results indicate the need for a change in the approaches and models of university education and higher education towards university education 04 with an approach based on the theoretical foundations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and coexistence web technologies (04). At the end, innovative solutions for higher education in Iran in the atmosphere of the fourth industrial revolution were presented.

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