Education 4.0: Adapting to the fourth industrial revolution

From the dawn of industry 250 years ago, formal education has remained essentially static, largely fossilised. In lecture halls around the globe, students still gaze not-so-fondly at the instructor delivering content that they're expected to memorise--and cramming is tested and rewarded. The future of work conversation is inherently a future of education conversation. If the hallmark of 20th-century learning was access to a college education, the third decade of the 21st century requires frameworks that digitally support lifelong learning--and then re-learning. Many of the jobs in the future workforce have not quite been imagined yet.