The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs
As the world is undergoing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), the fusing of physical, digital, and biological worlds with the new technologies, we experience a profound impact of this revolution on the labor markets and subsequent career planning of students. The new economic reality created by...
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description | As the world is undergoing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), the fusing of physical, digital, and biological worlds with the new technologies, we experience a profound impact of this revolution on the labor markets and subsequent career planning of students. The new economic reality created by 4IR calls for immediate action in the world of higher education. The purpose of this paper is to advocate for new key competencies that university students will need to thrive in the new economy. These competencies include human literacy, digital fluency, hyper-learning, and systems and design thinking. Together, they are presented as the ‘W- shaped 4IR Competency Model’. This model combines previously published opinions about the topic from various educational futurists who have tackled the issue. This paper includes a call to action for universities to address the skills gap challenge of college graduates and rethink their value propositions. As honors programs are the breeding ground for innovation, universities might consider starting to test the robot-proof, twenty-first-century curricula with the smaller honors cohorts and then consider the curricular transfer to the mainstream educational programs. We urge honors educators and administrators around the world to adopt curricula that will make their graduates ‘robot-proof’ and able to thrive in the new economy for decades to come. |
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spelling | doaj.art-405e15956b5d408fb37771a4df44b46a2022-12-22T03:08:22ZengHanze UASJournal of the European Honors Council2543-23112543-232X2020-09-014110.31378/jehc.123The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programsBeata Jones0Albert Pilot1Pierre van Eijl 2Josephine Lappia3Texas Christian University, USAUtrecht University, the NetherlandsUtrecht University, the NetherlandsBreda University of Applied Sciences, the NetherlandsAs the world is undergoing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), the fusing of physical, digital, and biological worlds with the new technologies, we experience a profound impact of this revolution on the labor markets and subsequent career planning of students. The new economic reality created by 4IR calls for immediate action in the world of higher education. The purpose of this paper is to advocate for new key competencies that university students will need to thrive in the new economy. These competencies include human literacy, digital fluency, hyper-learning, and systems and design thinking. Together, they are presented as the ‘W- shaped 4IR Competency Model’. This model combines previously published opinions about the topic from various educational futurists who have tackled the issue. This paper includes a call to action for universities to address the skills gap challenge of college graduates and rethink their value propositions. As honors programs are the breeding ground for innovation, universities might consider starting to test the robot-proof, twenty-first-century curricula with the smaller honors cohorts and then consider the curricular transfer to the mainstream educational programs. We urge honors educators and administrators around the world to adopt curricula that will make their graduates ‘robot-proof’ and able to thrive in the new economy for decades to come.https://jehc.eu/index.php/jehc/article/view/123Honors competenciesHonors skillsFourth Industrial Revolution4IRdigital skills |
spellingShingle | Beata Jones Albert Pilot Pierre van Eijl Josephine Lappia The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs Journal of the European Honors Council Honors competencies Honors skills Fourth Industrial Revolution 4IR digital skills |
title | The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs |
title_full | The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs |
title_fullStr | The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs |
title_full_unstemmed | The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs |
title_short | The W-shaped model of professional competencies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its relevance to honors programs |
title_sort | w shaped model of professional competencies for the fourth industrial revolution and its relevance to honors programs |
topic | Honors competencies Honors skills Fourth Industrial Revolution 4IR digital skills |
url | https://jehc.eu/index.php/jehc/article/view/123 |
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