CHAPTER 9

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and

Higher Education

Bryan Edward Penprase

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is a concept widely discussed at

venues such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos and within
business leadership. Recent white papers describe how the 4IR will “shape
the future of education, gender and work”1 and how the 4IR will require
“accelerating workforce reskilling.”2 A full exposition of the schema and
framework of the 4IR has been presented in book form with an inventory
of some of the key emerging technologies that are thought to drive the 4IR
and some societal implications from the 4IR.3 The 4IR as a phrase has its

1
 World Economic Forum, “Realizing Human Potential in the Fourth Industrial
Revolution – An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work”
(paper, World Economic Forum, Geneva, 2017).
2
 World Economic Forum, “Accelerating Workforce Reskilling for the Fourth Industrial
Revolution An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work”
(paper, World Economic Forum, Geneva, 2017).
3
 Klaus Schwab, “The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond,”
January 14, 2016, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-
revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/.

B. E. Penprase (*)
Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, CA, USA
e-mail: [email protected]

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roots in early analysis of the evolution of technology where the First

Industrial Revolution arose from harnessing water and steam power toward
more systematic and efficient forms of manufacturing. Typical descriptions
of the First Industrial Revolution mention steam engines  applied to the
mining in Cornwall  and the role of steam power in enabling massive
increases in the scale of manufacturing. Steam power has been eloquently
described as “the hub through which the spokes of coal, iron and cotton
were linked.”4 The origin of the term industrial revolution itself traces to an
1884 work by Arnold Toynbee entitled Lectures on the Industrial
Revolution.5 Within Toynbee’s description of the industrial revolution, the
expansion of power and mechanical production became a revolution only
from its coupling with a “political culture which was receptive to change,”6
which included shifts in financial arrangements as well as other social prog-
ress. As one author put it, “the Industrial Revolution is not merely an accel-
eration of economic growth, but an acceleration of growth because of, and
through, economic and social transformation.”7 Social and educational
transformations from the first three industrial revolutions can provide a
starting point in our consideration of the potential transformations in
higher education arising from the 4IR.

Educational Responses to the First Two Industrial

Revolutions
After the First Industrial Revolution, a vision for a new kind of curriculum
began to form with more diverse degree options and new general educa-
tion programs designed to produce breadth of study through the selection
from a variety of elective courses. This type of education was described by
the Harvard President Charles W.  Eliot as “The New Education”8 and
offered a dramatic shift away from the dominant classical education
­eloquently outlined in the Yale Report of 1828.9 University graduate

4
 William Rosen, The Most Powerful Idea in the World  – A Story of Steam, Industry and
Invention (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
5
 Toynbee, Lectures on the Industrial Revolution (London: Rivingtons, 1884).
6
 Gavin Weightman, The Industrial Revolutionaries (New York: Grove Press, 2007), 3.
7
 Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire  – The Birth of the Industrial Revolution (New
York: The New Press, 1968).
8
 Charles L. Eliot, “The New Education,” The Atlantic Monthly XXIII, (1869).
9
 Yale University, Reports on the Course of Instruction in Yale College: by a Committee of the
Corporation and the Academical Faculty (New Haven: Hezekiah Howe, 1828).
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education within the United States and across the world was transformed
by a widespread adoption of the German university model for postgradu-
ate research, which enabled the rise of dozens research universities within
the United States.
The Second Industrial Revolution is generally based in the period from
1860 to 1900, and is associated with new manufacturing technologies
based on electricity,10 which triggered additional changes launching what
some have described as a “new economy.”11 An expansion of access to
higher education and the proliferation of multiple types of higher educa-
tion institutions in the United States and Europe produced  a surge in
discovery and helped consolidate and accelerate the growth brought about
by the powerful new technologies. In the United States, the period of the
first two industrial revolutions brought a large crop of innovative new
educational institutions—founded through both public and private fund-
ing. The Morrill Act of 1862, passed in the middle of the Civil War and at
the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution, was intended to open
educational opportunity “for the industrial classes”12 and to enable higher
education that is “accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil.”13
These institutions, which took several decades to fully establish in each of
the states, were intended to create a steady stream of newly trained techni-
cians and engineers trained in the “practical avocations of life”14 such as
agriculture and the mechanic arts. Private philanthropy, fueled by the
immense profits from new industries such as railroads, oil and steel,
enabled the founding of institutions such as Stanford University (1885)
and the University of Chicago (1890). Numerous small colleges were also
founded such as Pomona College (1887), University of Southern
California (1880) and a small technical institute known as the Throop

10
 Bruce C. Netschert and Sam H. Schurr, Energy in the American Economy, 1850–1975:
An Economic Study of its History and Prospects (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1960).
11
 Andrew Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe, “Modeling the Transition to a New Economy:
Lessons from Two Technological Revolutions,” American Economic Review 97, no. 1
(2007): 64–88.
12
 Quoted in “The Morrill Act of 1862,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln, accessed January
10, 2018, https://sdn.unl.edu/morrill-act.
13
 Quoted in Peter McPherson, “Celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Morrill Act of
1890,” Association of Public Land-Grant Universities, July 15, 2015, http://www.aplu.
org/news-and-media/blog/celebrating-the-125th-anniversary-of-the-morrill-act-of-1890.
14
 Roger L.  Geiger, The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher
Education (New York: Routledge, 2017), x.
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College (1893), later to become Caltech. These institutions were founded

a few decades after the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution and
were both enabled by and responded to the societal and economic changes
rapidly building in the end of the nineteenth century. Most of these new
institutions of higher education during the period of the Second Industrial
Revolution were co-educational and helped foster an increased role for
women in industrial and academic settings.
It is important to note that changes in society and education from both
industrial revolutions are also difficult to separate from other causes, such
as economic cycles and other titanic geopolitical shifts of the period that
included the westward expansion and development of the United States,
the rise of industrial Japanese and German states, and large global wars
that dislocated economic activity and accelerated the development of sci-
ence and technology. Some economists have also observed that the cyclic
nature of economic activity arises from regular cycles of economic growth
and recession, sometimes called Kondratieff waves.15 Spectral analysis of
world GDP growth has identified peaks in annual average GDP growth in
the period of 1850–1875 and 1895–1913,16 which coincides approxi-
mately with the conclusion of the first and the beginning of the Second
Industrial Revolution. It has been noted by economists that whenever new
technologies are introduced into an economy, there is a significant lag
time for the technology to be fully adapted to a level where they provide
measurable impacts on productivity. This lag between technological inno-
vation and growth of productivity has been called a productivity paradox
and has been attributed to the time it takes for training and experimenta-
tion with new technology to widely disseminate throughout society.17 The
results suggest that historically, changes within society and the impacts of
technology on education require time to be fully realized. The profound
changes in society and education that arose from the first two industrial
revolutions spanned several decades, lagging well behind the initial intro-
duction of the catalyzing technologies of steam and electricity.

15
 Nikolai. D. Kondratieff and W. F. Stolper, “The Long Waves in Economic Life,” Journal
of Economic Statistics 17, no. 6 (1935): 105–115.
16
 Andrey V. Korotayev and Sergey V. Tsirel, “A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics:
Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic
Development, and the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis,” Structure and Dynamics 4, no. 1
(2010): 1–55.
17
 Atkeson and Kehoe, “Modeling the Transition to a New Economy.”
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The proliferation of new educational institutions and new curricula

after the first two industrial revolutions enabled the technical and mana-
gerial capacity to implement the massive expansion of the economy and
manufacturing that arose in the twentieth century. Seismic shifts in US
higher education after World War II further advanced the societal
changes made possible through the first two industrial revolutions. These
changes included both a commitment to broader representation within
higher education of veterans through the GI bill and the creation of
community colleges in 1947, along with a massive expansion of the
research mission of universities through federal funding. This expansion
of research followed the publication of the report commissioned by
President Truman entitled “Science: The Endless Frontier,”18 and the
creation of the National Science Foundation in 1950, which drastically
increased the resources available for university scientists and shifted the
incentive structures and curriculum within US higher education for
decades to come. Within six years, federal funding for STEM subjects
increased from $6 billion per year to over $35 billion between 1960 and
1966. In the development of its 3600 universities and colleges, the
United States created a massive system which today enrolls more than 19
million students annually and grants nearly 3 million degrees with an
employment of more than 3.6 million people, including 2.6 million fac-
ulty.19 The higher education system in some ways can be considered as an
industry in itself—accounting for more than $380 billion of economic
activity—and this education industry itself is perhaps in need of an
“Industrial Revolution.”

Educational Responses to the Third Industrial

Revolution
If history is to be our guide, the Third Industrial Revolution, which is
generally attributed to computerization and web-based interconnectivity
developed in the 1980s and 1990s, is only now having its rippling effects
upon society, politics, economics and education. Within the Third
Industrial Revolution, the expansion of access to higher education rose to

18
 Vannevar Bush, “Science The Endless Frontier,” July 1, 1945, https://www.nsf.gov/
od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm.
19
 Vartan Gregorian, “American Higher Education: An Obligation to the Future,”
Carnegie Reporter, 2014. https://higheredreporter.carnegie.org/introduction/.
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even greater prominence with greatly increased diversity on campuses and

globalization of academic research accelerated by online technologies. An
intensified commitment to large-scale higher education across the world
has resulted in increasing rates of participation in higher education in
India, China as well as the United States. For example, in the United
States the fraction of the population with some access to higher education
has risen from 4% in 1900 to nearly 70% in 2000. The increasing diversity
within student populations is also remarkable, with a 30% rise in enroll-
ments in underrepresented groups, resulting in 38% of US college
enrollments.
One of the largest ripples from the Third Industrial Revolution was the
move toward online education, which culminated in the “Year of the
MOOC” during 2012 as massive online open courses were expected to
completely displace traditional in-person higher education and expand
access to university education to millions of previously unserved students
across the world. The revolution of higher education brought about by
online courses is still ongoing, but is more likely to result in an integration
of high quality, synchronous, in-person learning environments with online
technologies to enable students to more rapidly build skills and knowledge
asynchronously. One author has suggested a useful framework of disag-
gregating higher education activities between those that are intrinsically
synchronous and personal, such as personal exploration, coaching and
mentorship, from those activities that can be easily scaled and shifted
online such as content transfer, and authoring and production.20 Within
the environment of increasing online content delivery and access to infor-
mation, these more personal and “high-touch” components of the educa-
tional experience will become of increasing value and will not be easily
replaced by technology.
Online and tech-enhanced teaching within universities is enabling
both research universities and liberal arts colleges to more efficiently
teach students with diverse backgrounds, and to open up their cam-
puses to a more global community of both faculty and students. Small
liberal arts colleges are working together to realize economies of scale
with new types of technologies that improve on-campus experience for
students through online math courses for incoming students, language

20
 Michael Staton, “Disaggregating the Components of a College Degree,” August 2,
2012, http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/-disaggregating-the-compo-
nents-of-a-college-degree_184521175818.pdf.
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courses taught via videoconferencing, and new ways of merging social

media with small-class seminars. One example of an initiative of this
sort is the Liberal Arts Consortium for Online Learning (LACOL),
which has brought together some of the leading US liberal arts colleges
to explore these technologies.21 Online education companies such as
Coursera and EdX are partnering with larger universities to create
newer and more interactive formats for their online courses and are
developing dozens of new “stackable micro-credentials”22 that link
multiple online courses with in-person consultations with faculty and
opportunities for students to conduct significant original capstone
projects.
The Third Industrial Revolution has brought educators to an environ-
ment where access to information is immediate and free, shifting the focus
toward active learning pedagogies that place a premium on collaboration
within diverse teams in a project-based and peer learning environment.23
Many of the most thoughtful responses to reform in STEM education in
recent years have resulted in a greater emphasis on liberal arts and inter-
personal skills imbedded within a more interdisciplinary curriculum.
Examples include the Project Kaleidoscope Science initiative,24 Liberal
Studies in Engineering,25 the American Physical Society SPIN-UP proj-
ect26 and the HHMI Scientific Foundations for Future Physician report.27
All emphasize more interdisciplinary approaches in STEM that develop
student capacity for collaboration and social interaction within STEM
courses and curriculum.

21
 LACOL, “Liberal Arts Consortium for Online Learning,” July 1, 2017, http://lacol.
net/.
22
 Jeffery R. Young, “The New Frontier in Online Education,” Slate, October 10, 2017,
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/10/microcedentials_are_
the_new_frontier_in_online_education.html.
23
 Eris Mazur, “Farewell, Lecture?,” Science 323, no. 5910 (2009): 50–51.
24
 Susan Elrod and Arianna J.  Kezar, Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to
Systemic Institutional Change (Washington, D.C.: AAC&U, 2016).
25
 Louis Bucciarelli and David Drew, “Liberal Studies in engineering  – a design plan,”
Engineering Studies 7, no. 2–3 (2015): 103–122.
26
 Robert C. Hilborn, Ruth H. Howes, and Kenneth S. Krane, eds., Strategic Programs for
Innovations in Undergraduate Physics (College Park: The American Association of Physics
Teachers, 2003).
27
 AAMC, Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians (Washington, D.C.: Association of
American Medical Colleges, 2009).
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Larger-scale responses in recent years to changing realities in the

world have also resulted in entirely new institutions created with more
global and more interdisciplinary curricula and a greater emphasis on
strong collaborations between students within a residential community.
One example is Yale-NUS College in Singapore, developed by Yale
University and the National University of Singapore to provide a resi-
dential liberal arts college within Asia. Yale-NUS College offers an inter-
disciplinary curriculum which features literature and philosophy from
both Eastern and Western cultures, a range of interdisciplinary science
courses and quantitative reasoning, and courses in Modern Social
Thought and Comparative Social Inquiry that enable students to col-
laborate and discuss some of the deepest issues of identity, family and
social responsibility within the emerging globalized world of the twenty-
first century.28 A remarkable curriculum at Soka University of America in
California develops students to become “global citizens” through inten-
sive language study and required study abroad in a foreign language, as
well as with wide-ranging core courses that explore “Enduring Questions”
of humanity and how these questions are answered in a social context,
drawing from classic works of Chinese, Indian and Greek philosophers,
European social theorists and modern interpretations of twenty-first-
century society in both the US and Asian contexts. Courses in both
American Experience and the Pacific Basin and Modes of Inquiry further
develop student capacity for discussion, dialogue and reflection within an
international context.29 A third curriculum being developed by Duke
University for its new Duke-Kunshan University in China explores the
concept of “rooted globalism,” and blends an appreciation for a local
culture with an exploration of international approaches to identity and
society, and develops a framework for liberal arts in China in the twenty-
first century.30

28
 Bryan Penprase and Terry Nardin, “Common Curriculum at Yale-NUS,” July 1, 2017,
https://indd.adobe.com/view/b8748bf2-c7a6-4cef-a1e6-9a30c36bfe80.
29
 Soka University of America, “General Education Curriculum,” Accessed December 3,
2017, http://www.soka.edu/academics/general-education-curriculum/default.aspx.
30
 Kara A. Godwin and Noah Pickus, “Liberal Arts & Sciences Innovation in China: Six
Recommendations to Shape the Future,” CIHE Perspectives, November 1, 2017. https://
www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cihe/pubs/CIHE%20Perspective/
CIHE%20Perspectives%208_ENGLISH_13NOV2017.pdf.
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Emerging Realities from the 4IR

The 4IR often is described as the result of an integration and com-
pounding effects of multiple “exponential technologies,” such as artifi-
cial intelligence (AI), biotechnologies and nanomaterials. One example
of the emerging reality within the 4IR is the development of synthetic
organisms (life from DNA created within computers and bioprinted)
manufactured using robotic assembly lines, where nanomaterials provide
immense improvements in the efficiency of production. The 4IR extends
the paradigm of industrial revolution into a future when many of the ele-
ments of what we might consider industry—fixed and centralized facto-
ries, massive labor forces within large corporations—will no longer exist.
The most  familiar exponential technology is the exponential increase in
computer power and decreasing cost in storage, which obeys a geometric
relation commonly known as Moore’s Law. The doubling of CPU power
every 18–24 months has enabled new supercomputers to reach computa-
tion speeds of 300 quadrillion FLOPS (floating operations per second) in
the latest supercomputer known as Milky Way 2,31 an increase in speed of
more than a factor of 300,000 in just two decades. When these digital expo-
nential technologies are combined with other similarly rapidly expanding
technologies—biotechnology, nanotechnology and AI—the combination
of multiple exponentially developing technologies compounds and mul-
tiplies the pace of change. Some have described the convergence of these
exponential technologies as providing a “singularity”—which will provide
untold benefits to humanity as humans transcend biology, according to
some authors.32
The WEF has defined a set of tipping points at which the technologies
of the 4IR will become widespread enough to create massive societal
change. These tipping points include the proliferation of 4IR technologies
to levels where they make significant impacts on our lives and require shifts
in employment and education. A survey of 800 high-tech experts and
executives determined a series of dates by which tipping points would be
reached. Examples include implantable cell phones by 2025, 80% of peo-
ple with a digital presence by 2023, 10% of reading glasses connected to
the internet by 2023, 10% of people wearing internet-connected clothes
31
 Michael A. Peters, “Technological Unemployment: Educating for the Fourth Industrial
Revolution,” Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics 5, no. 1 (2017):
25–33.
32
 Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near (New York: Penguin, 2005).
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by 2022, 90% of the world population with access to the internet by 2024,
90% of the population using smartphones by 2023, 1 trillion sensors con-
nected to the internet by 2022, over 50% of internet traffic directed to
homes and appliances by 2024, and driverless cars comprising 10% of all
cars in the United States by 2026. Many other predictions suggest exten-
sive integration of AI in the 4IR workforce, such as AI members of corpo-
rate boards of directors, AI auditors and robotic pharmacists, proliferation
of bitcoin in the economy, 3D printed cars by 2022, and transplants of 3D
printed organs such as livers by 2024.33
One author has described the 4IR as a shift from non-renewable energy
resources toward renewable energy enabled by biotechnology break-
throughs. This approach preserves the paradigm of the industrial revolu-
tion arising from new  energy sources, and makes concrete predictions
about the emerging bioeconomy that will fuel the future.34 Increasing
population and losses of arable land due to global climate change  will
require  an increase in food production efficiency of over 50% by 2050,
which places an imperative on 4IR technologies developing revolutionary
new sources of food production. The emergence of biorefineries to use
genetically modified microbes to provide a wide variety of useful chemicals
as well as food components could be an essential part of the 4IR land-
scape. These biorefineries could make use of flexible food stocks that
might include cellulose, biomass and simple sugars, to enable mass pro-
duction of a diverse range of fuels, pharmaceuticals and food products in
extremely large quantities and enable a reduction in the use of fossil fuels
in the coming decades. Such organisms could also be used for environ-
mental mitigation by removing various compounds from the environment
such as toxic metals within landfills. Start-up companies are designing new
organisms using standardized synthetic biology wetware allowing for the
development of biological circuits and computers, and even for building
materials to be grown using living materials known as “bio-bricks.”35
The 4IR may also enable technological solutions to the environmental
threats arising from the buildup of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from
the massive factories arising from our first two industrial revolutions.
Some authors have predicted that global warming could render the earth

33
 World Economic Forum, Deep Shift  – Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impacts
(Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2015).
34
 James Philp, “The bioeconomy, the challenge of the century for policy makers,” New
Biotechnology 40, part. A (2018): 11–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2017.04.004.
35
 D. E. Cameron, Caleb Bashor, and James Collins, “A brief history of synthetic biology,”
Nature Reviews Microbiology 12, (2014): 381–390.
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uninhabitable through an increase of more than 10 °C, which would result

in widespread crop failures and large fractions of the world’s populations
subject to heat exhaustion and potential death. The predicted increases in
temperature will significantly reduce agricultural productivity by as much
as 15% for every degree of warming.36 New technologies could mitigate
global warming by absorbing excess CO2 using both bioengineered organ-
isms and new materials within buildings.
In the new manufacturing regime enabled by 4IR technologies, some-
times called the Internet of Things (IoT), nearly anything can be designed
on a computer and then printed on 3D printers that create objects in
countless materials or even biological tissues. This capability will allow
humans to turn data into things and things into data. 3D printing materi-
als could range from the familiar thermoplastics found in traditional 3D
printers to large-scale construction materials for buildings, to clumps of
atoms 10 nm across.37 This expansive IoT capability will enable printers to
construct entire buildings, build microstructures with incredibly precise
tolerances, or create biological structures for implants or even transplants
of entire organs.

Higher Education’s Response to the 4IR

The exact impacts of such 4IR technologies on society and the planet are
still unknown—but the fact that they will bring profound and rapid change
seems all but certain. The need for higher education to respond is urgent
as the power of 4IR technologies for either positive social impacts or dev-
astating environmental damage is upon us, as is the potential for irrevers-
ible loss of control over networks of powerful AI agents with increasing
autonomy within financial sectors and within urban infrastructure.
Substantial changes to the science and technology curriculum will be
required to allow for students to develop capacity in the rapidly emerging
areas of genomics, data science, AI, robotics and nanomaterials. Such a
4IR STEM curriculum would reconsider the curriculum within the
traditional “primary” sciences—biology, chemistry and physics—and
­

36
 David Wallace-Wells, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” New Yorker, July 9, 2017, http://
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.
html.
37
 Neil Gershenfeld, “How to Make Almost Anything,” Foreign Affairs 91, no. 6 (2012):
43–57.
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place a higher premium for training in computer science subjects as a

form of 4IR literacy. Within biology, new approaches might include
training within introductory courses to discuss emerging areas such as
synthetic biology and molecular design. Some examples of reshaped life
science curriculum can be found at Stanford University, where a new
Problem Solving in Biology course has students design experiments to
develop  cures to real-­world pathogens such as Lyme disease and HIV,
using authentic data from scientific literature,38 or a new course in engi-
neering biology that allows students to design their own life forms on
computers and bioprint them to solve practical problems  in medicine,
public health and environmental management. These courses are a
response to the emerging bioeconomy, which already exceeds $400 bil-
lion in the United States alone.39 Within the Stanford curriculum is a new
major known as bioengineering, which trains students at the “interface of
life sciences and engineering”40 and merges expertise and resources in the
departments of medicine, biology and engineering. Similar innovations
within chemistry include a worldwide proliferation of courses and degree
programs in Green Chemistry, which blends chemistry, biology and envi-
ronmental science to allow students to engage on real environmental
problems such as synthetic fuels, bioplastics and toxicology, and to train
students in techniques to reduce pollution.41 New physics curriculum
emphasizing  4IR collaborative skills is also  being developed, based on
projects where students design and build original musical instruments,
cryptographic gadgets and other inventions collaboratively.42 Additional
educational responses to 4IR might require a restructuring of institutions
to provide new science programs and departments in emerging interdis-
ciplinary fields to more e­ fficiently provide trained workers to help advance

38
 Martha Cyert, “Developing a New Introductory Biology Curriculum,” Accessed
November 2, 2017, https://vptl.stanford.edu/spotlight/developing-new-introductory-
biology-curriculum.
39
 Drew Endy, “Yale-NUS College STEM Innovation Conference,” April 27, 2016,
http://steminnovation.sg/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Endy_Yale_NUS_STEM_
v1.pdf.
40
 Tom Abate, “New Bioengineering Major culminated department’s evolution,” October
22, 2015, https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/new-bioengineering-major-culminated-
department-s-evolution.
41
 Liliana Mammino and Vânia G. Zunin, Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education
(Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015).
42
 Caroline Perry, “In Ap 50, Students Own their Education,” September 23, 2013,
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/09/in-ap-50-students-own-their-education.
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and accelerate the development of ever-more sophisticated biotechnol-

ogy, nanotechnology materials and AI.
Any educational plan for the 4IR must be built upon the results of the
Third Industrial Revolution described earlier, with its emerging develop-
ment of hybrid online and in-person instruction, and efficient and seam-
less integration of global videoconferencing and a wide array of
asynchronous educational resources. Blended instruction and optimiza-
tion of flipped and online courses will make more efficient learning envi-
ronments that can adapt for diversity in preparation of students. The
Future of Education Report at MIT strongly emphasizes the need for
leveraging online courses to strengthen the residential education for
undergraduates and to also give more flexibility and modularity of
courses.43 Examples of effective blended environments include the
supremely popular CS 50 course at Harvard,44 the MIT introductory
Electrical Engineering course, where course material is delivered entirely
online with the in-person component focusing on laboratory and maker
space time for students to build and test robots, and the MIT Circuits
and Electronics course, which has been offered as an online course for
residential students, who found the course to be less stressful and who
appreciated the ease of scheduling and additional speed for receiving
feedback in their assignments.45
Any effective 4IR education strategy must also include in equal mea-
sure a deep consideration of the human condition, the ways in which
new technologies and shifting economic power impact people of all socio-
economic levels, and the threats that exist within a world that is increas-
ingly interconnected, in a way that fosters deep intercultural understanding
and an abiding respect for freedom and human rights. Such approaches
favor an interdisciplinary and global curriculum in a residential context,
such as is found in many liberal arts institutions. These approaches maxi-
mize the development of intercultural and interpersonal skills, which will
be a hallmark of the future 4IR workplace.

43
 MIT, “Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education,” July 1, 2013,
https://future.mit.edu/.
44
 Cordelia F. Mendez, “This is CS50,” Fifteen Minutes Magazine, September 18, 2014,
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/9/18/this-is-cs50/.
45
 Nick Roll, “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds,” June 15, 2017, https://www.
insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/15/credit-mooc-proves-popular-among-mit-
students.
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4IR Liberal Arts: An Ethical Imperative for Our

New Human Condition
More than anything, the 4IR puts a premium on adaptability and in self-­
directed learning and thinking. Some authors have noted that the shelf life
of any skill in the present-day environment has become increasingly short,
requiring future workers to continuously update their skills and teach
themselves about new technologies and new industries that may not have
existed while they were being trained for their initial degrees. A further
design requirement for education within 4IR would be to include a strong
overlay of ethical thinking, intercultural awareness and critical thinking to
enable for thoughtful and informed application of the exponentially devel-
oping technologies. A well-developed plan for a 4IR form of higher edu-
cation will ensure that our students will graduate into a world that they
can help shape with wisdom and skill, while building a future society we
would want ourselves and our grandchildren to live in. Graduates of any
4IR higher education should be capable of advancing the material culture
of our future world, while creating a culture which advances technologies
sustainably and ethically.
Within Career and Technical Education (CTE), new frameworks need
to be developed to respond to the increasing rate of change and the
increasing complexity and volatility of employment. Such educational pro-
grams will need to shift emphasis away from routine tasks and, like the
more academic curriculum, develop habits of mind and capacity for cre-
ativity within workers at all levels. One such framework for CTE suggests
that an emphasis on soft skills such as career navigation, work ethic, and
innovation will better prepare students for the emerging 4IR workplace.46
Integration of 4IR technologies such as the IoT in both CTE and more
academic settings requires a simultaneous treatment of rapidly changing
technical details and building capacity for teamwork and collabora-
tion within students.
The changing nature of work—which favors more flexible and shorter-­
term assignments—has been cited as a key factor to address within
4IR education. Future jobs within the 4IR technology sectors, AI,
machine learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printing, genetics and
­biotechnology, are expected to dominate in the coming decades. Within
46
 Jay W. Rojewski and Roger B. Hill, “A Framework for 21st-Century Career-Technical
and Workforce Education Curricula,” Peabody Journal of Education 92, no. 2 (2017):
180–191.
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those sectors, employers and industries are projecting that social skills that
include persuasion, emotional intelligence and capacity for teaching oth-
ers will be at a premium.47 Already employers have recognized the power
of liberal arts for catalyzing entrepreneurship and for developing “people
skills” which many large tech companies are actively seeking to help them
develop new products and new marketing.48

Fourth Industrial Revolution Liberal Arts: New

Elements to the Curriculum
The 4IR and its associated technologies such as biotechnology and AI
challenge some of our fundamental assumptions of what it means to be
human and the conditions of our relationship with the natural world.
How should liberal arts respond to this new human condition? There are
several key pieces that seem to be integral to a 4IR Liberal Arts Program.
The social dislocations from the 4IR have to be accounted for within a
new 4IR liberal arts  curriculum. Already we have seen the correlation
between corporate earnings, productivity gains and wage increases break
down. As smart AI-powered machines and other advanced technologies
become more common within corporations, this trend is only expected to
accelerate. The 4IR curriculum needs to respond to the political and social
tensions that will accompany the accelerating pace of technological change,
and to respond to the paradox of technologies that simultaneously increase
democratization and centralize wealth and political influence. As described
in one of the WEF reports, the political effects of the expansion and con-
vergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds will be profound.
This development will “enable citizens to engage with governments, voice
their opinions, coordinate their efforts, and even circumvent the supervi-
sion of public authorities. Simultaneously, governments will gain new
technological powers to increase their control over populations.”49
With the evolution of online instruction and expanding uses of AI,
new guidelines are needed to provide a theoretical basis for digital peda-
gogy. Some have called the old models of teaching “anthropocentric

47
 World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy
for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2016). http://
www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs.pdf.
48
 George Anders, You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts
Education (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017).
49
 Schwab, “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
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humanism” and the new types of digital education “critical posthuman-

ism.” These approaches stress that digital education is more than a purely
technical concern, as online environments  change the dynamics of
space  and time to create new learning cultures that challenge our ear-
lier  notions of social interactions and enable  new perspectives on
our  shared humanity, independent of geographic boundaries.50 Such a
curriculum can also help students grapple with the complex issues of rela-
tionships within online spaces and the philosophical dimensions of AIs
that may approach or even surpass human intelligence. One author has
created a “Cyborg Manifesto” to help explain the social reality for a
cybernetic organism, which would be a “creature in a post-gender
world”51 where divisions between nature and culture, public and private
and human and non-human break down. These humanistic concerns are
inseparable from technical advancement, and a new 4IR curriculum will
need to reduce the divisions between humanities and STEM to create a
more integrated system of education which can explore the newly emerg-
ing conceptions of self and identity within the 4IR, including discussions
of autonomy, free will, and genetic vs. social determinism. The changing
nature of social relations and interactions—social media, obligations to
identity groups, society, nation and world needs to be central in the 4IR
curriculum as all of these identities and loyalties are shifting rapidly due to
increased globalization.
More than ever, higher education in the 4IR age must develop  the
capacity not just for analyzing and breaking a technical or scientific prob-
lem into its constituent parts, but also must emphasize the interconnec-
tions between each scientific problem across global scales and interrelations
between physical, chemical, biological and economic dimensions of a
problem. As one author has put it, “there is a single planetary technical
system” in which globally scaled markets enable “hundreds of thousands
of transactions and information exchanges take place at the speed of light
within the space of a microsecond.”52 This speed can cause volatility and
chaos in financial systems, and similar analogs of interconnected complex
systems exist in the realms of marine ecology, forest conservation, global
50
 Petar Jandric, “From Anthropocentric Humanism to Critical Posthumanism in Digital
Education,” in Learning in the Age of Digital Reason (Rotterdam, Sense Publishers, 2017),
195–210.
51
 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Specialist-Feminism
in the Late Twentieth Century,” in The Cybercultures Reader, eds. David Bell and Barbara
M. Kennedy, (London: Routledge, 2000), 291–324.
52
 Peters, “Technological Unemployment,” 36–37.
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climate and the impacts of extinctions on the biosphere, to name a few

examples. In all of these systems the rapidity of responses to the system
and the larger network of interconnections can easily result in exponential
responses to small perturbations, and the 4IR curriculum needs to train
students to recognize and help manage the proliferating numbers of expo-
nentially responding and interconnected systems.

New Sequencing of Education to Renew Skills

In addition to the more reflective residential education settings described
above, the rapid pace of change within the 4IR will require rapid expan-
sion of existing initiatives for updating skills after graduation and recon-
necting within older workers in campus environments. Within scientific
and technical education, we will need to educate and reeducate students
to help develop and shape the use of today’s most rapidly emerging tech-
nologies. Pathways for students to reengage with their institutions after
graduation will become imperative and will provide both updated skills to
workers and a new channel for younger students (and faculty) to engage
with the rapidly changing realities within the industrial and corporate sec-
tors. One innovative initiative exploring new sequencing of higher educa-
tion is the Stanford2025 project, which envisions several mechanisms
whereby students can extend their education over longer timeframes. One
model is the “open loop university” where students can experience six
years of higher education over their entire adult careers that can allow
them to blend their learning with life experience and provide value to the
campus by returning as expert practitioners over several intervals—
enabling students to refresh their skills while interacting with the campus
community. Another model known as the axis flip prioritizes skill develop-
ment and competency training over content and disciplinary topics,
requiring new methods of assessment and a degree known as a skill-print
that students would constantly renew and extend through their careers.53
The hallmark of the 4IR is exponential growth and rapid change, which
gives the curriculum an imperative to update content on an unprecedented
frequency to match the rapid tempo of scientific and technological advances.
A more responsive curriculum of this sort places an extremely high premium
on faculty development and curriculum renewal, as well as the mandate to
develop students who can think and reinvent themselves within the changing

53
 Stanford2025, “Learning and Living at Stanford  – An Exploration of Undergraduate
Experiences in the Future,” June 1, 2013, http://www.stanford2025.com/.
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world they will graduate into. Within future universities and colleges, both
students and faculty will never be done with their educations, but instead
must engage constantly with their colleagues and outside experts to fre-
quently renew and update their skills. To enable faculty to maintain exper-
tise based on the latest discoveries and technologies,  more proactive and
creative forms of faculty development will also be required.The 4IR campus
must become a constantly renewing collaborative hub of activity to maintain
itself within the fast-paced environment of the future.

Conclusion
The first three industrial revolutions provided evidence for the profound
shifts in society, the economy and education which resulted in a prolifera-
tion of curricular innovation and the establishment of new educational
institutions. As in the previous three industrial revolutions, the most pro-
found effects of the 4IR on our society will not be realized for many
decades. Unlike previous industrial revolutions, however, the 4IR features
the impacts of several compounding exponential technologies which all
share the capacity for rapid increases in scale and reductions of cost. This
rapidity of advance in technologies demands a more proactive response
from the educational sector than the more gradual societal evolution and
subsequent response from educational institutions in earlier industrial
revolutions.
The impacts of the emerging 4IR technology in economic and environ-
mental terms alone will require a drastic reconsideration of the curriculum
within higher education to enable students both to comprehend the indi-
vidual technologies in detail and to be able to thoughtfully analyze and
predict the evolution of networked systems of technology, the environ-
ment and sociopolitical systems. The dynamic responses with networked
systems and exponential feedback effects will amplify the pace of change,
as has already been seen in the context of global climate change and in
many other physical and biological contexts. The 4IR STEM curriculum
will need to focus on emerging technologies—robotics, AI, IoT, nanoma-
terials, genomics and biotech—to provide a workforce not only capable of
developing new applications and products, but also capable of interpreting
the effects of these technologies on society and using their training to
provide sustainable and ethical uses of science and technology. More than
any particular content area, curriculum needs to help students develop the
capacity for ethical reasoning, for awareness of societal and human impacts,
   THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND HIGHER EDUCATION    225

and to be able to comprehend the impacts of 4IR technologies on people,

so they are trained to not only increase our material prosperity but also to
improve our social and cultural fabric. From strictly economic terms, stu-
dents who are capable of creative insights, collaborating in diverse teams,
and navigating through global cultural differences will be at an advantage
in a workplace where the meaning of skills will become more of interpret-
ing rapidly changing information and being able to work with experts and
stakeholders toward common understanding of the benefits of sustainable
development. While earlier industrial revolutions have prioritized some of
the raw materials needed to fuel their factories or cities—placing a pre-
mium on capital based in physical resources such as land, water power,
coal, oil and wood—the 4IR will place a premium on intellectual capital
and in capacity for collective thought. Students who are able to learn in
residential environments with diverse colleagues and develop solutions
together in teams will be well trained for the types of tasks that will be
asked of them in the 4IR. Our colleges and universities owe it to these
students and our future to develop more interactive forms of pedagogy at
all levels and to embrace a curriculum that stresses perspectives from mul-
tiple disciplinary and cultural perspectives over static swathes of disciplin-
ary “content.” Many of the emerging liberal arts institutions in the United
States and Asia and new types of CTE curricula are providing useful exam-
ples of how to implement this new model of 4IR higher education. Higher
education needs to recognize the necessity of adapting and scaling up
these new 4IR forms of education rapidly to assure the sustainability of
our environment and economy, as well as to sustain the relevance of higher
education as a responsive and vital component of society. Taken together,
these new forms of 4IR education will prepare both students and faculty
for leadership roles in a world of rapidly accelerating change, with a cur-
riculum that develops both technical mastery and a deep awareness of
ethical responsibility toward the human condition.

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