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Academic Management in Higher Education 4.0 Facing the Challenges of Industry 4.0

Abstract:

Industry 4.0 promotes the digital transformation of education, innovative, flexible, personalized learning; and requires transformations both methodological, curricular, as well as management. The present study intends to establish certain characteristics of the academic director in the area of Education, projected towards the fourth industrial revolution, for which the quantitative research approach supported by a semi-structured online questionnaire was used as a structured instrument in the 4 dimensions of the framework of enabling components of Education 4.0. The population was made up of the academic directors of the Facultad de la Educación, el Arte y las Comunicaciones of the Universidad Nacional de Loja. Among the main results, it was obtained that the competencies that the academic directors consider to be a priority are teamwork, innovation and participation in collaborative networks; The teaching role stands out as a manager of access to knowledge with 53%; 53.8% of academic directors use cloud computing as an information management mechanism and 46.22% of them affirm that 50% of their career information is digitized; 76.9% of the population requires training in matters related to Culture 4.0, while 58.3% consider that digital gaps and dehumanization are the main risks in Education 4.0. It is concluded that Education 4.0 is an unfinished field that includes not only technological but also organizational aspects with challenges and risks for contemporary society.