Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Contents 1 Introduction 1 Nancy W. Gleason Part I Higher Education Themes in the 4IR Context 13 2 Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Twenty-First-Century Education 15 Pericles Lewis 3 Educational Mobility and Transnationalization 39 Peidong Yang and Yi’En Cheng 4 Academic Library Futures in a Diversified University System 65 Lorcan Dempsey and Constance Malpas Part II How Education Has Begun to Adapt: Case Study Assessment 91 5 Innovation Education in China: Preparing Attitudes, Approaches, and Intellectual Environments for Life in the Automation Economy 93 Rosaline May Lee and Yanyue (Selena) Yuan c ontentsxii CONTENTS 6 Regenerative Development in Higher Education: Costa Rica’s Perspective 121 Eduard Müller 7 Singapore’s Higher Education Systems in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Preparing Lifelong Learners 145 Nancy W. Gleason 8 Adopt Fast, Adapt Quick: Adaptive Approaches in the South African Context 171 Bo Xing, Lufuno Marwala, and Tshilidzi Marwala 9 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Higher Education 207