Preparing Education for Industry 4.0

Chris Goldspink and Robert Kay

By Chris Goldspink and Robert Kay
Community contribution / June 24, 2019

The following is an excerpt from “Towards Education 3.0: The Changing Goalposts for Education” by Chris Goldspink & Robert Kay.

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By Chris Goldspink and Robert Kay

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Chris Goldspink is an experienced educator, manager and researcher. He is also a research associate with the Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney. He has a long-standing interest in education and educational improvement. He was the lead researcher on the 10-year Learning to Learn and Teaching for Effective Learning project, undertaken by the Department for Education and Child Development in South Australia, and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers on this and other related projects. Robert Kay, Honorary Professor at Macquarie University, has consistently bridged the gap between academia and industry. He was formerly the Head of Strategic Innovation at Westpac Banking Corporation; a Senior Lecturer in Information System and Organisational Development at the University of Technology Sydney and a research analyst at Bovis Lend Lease. He holds a first-class Honours degree in experiential curriculum design and a PhD on biological systems approaches to organizational learning and resilience.

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