International Conference on Applied Education, Technology and Innovation

Whereas Education 4.0 refers to the shifts in the education sector in response to Industry 4.0 where digital transformation has impacted the ways in which the world of work and our everyday lives are becoming increasingly automated. Education 5.0 looks to the evolution of an educational paradigm that more overtly seeks to engage with the realm of ethics and humanism towards a quest for a more sustainable, equitable and caring future. In the applied degree sector, change and transformation is .. continue reading occurring as leaders, educators, start-ups and industry partners collaborate in more integrated and mutually beneficial ways to co-create opportunities for skilling and reskilling in green technologies and sustainability for the benefit of the circular economy. The use of advanced technologies and Ai is enabling students and academics working in close collaboration with industries and tech start-ups to engage in collaborative applied research to posit project-based learning with a focus on problem-solving for value-creation. While digitalization and workforce re/skilling has been a recent catch-cry, an emergent focus on the interrelationship between humans and technology in the workplace and learning experiences that foster the enduring capabilities of human-workers such as creativity, imagination, empathy, resilience, adaptive thinking and social intelligence are coming to the fore.