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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1487634

FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN KINGDOM OF SAUDI RABIA

Provisionally accepted
Yousef Mubrik Almutairi Yousef Mubrik Almutairi *Atheer Farouk Al-Saad Atheer Farouk Al-Saad Reda Ibrahim Elmelegy Reda Ibrahim Elmelegy Amany Abdel Hafez Bakr Amany Abdel Hafez Bakr Magdy Abdul Rahman Abdallah Magdy Abdul Rahman Abdallah Khaled Almotairi Khaled Almotairi
  • University of Hail, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia

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    This research aimed to clarify the effect of industrial revolution on higher education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia universities. This is accomplished through examining examine Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), and acknowledging the relationship between content learning, learning opportunities, and instructional activities and the adoption of industrial revolution. The research depended on using a crosssectional/ descriptive and analytical method to analyze and investigate the effect of adopting the industrial revolution on university education institutions. In addition, it adopted a quantitative technique in analyzing the gathered data. A total of four hundred members of academic staff were sampled from the University of Hail (UoH) in Saudi Arabia. The results of the research revealed that there is a positive relationship between content learning, learning opportunities, and content and instructional activities and adoption of industrial revolution. Also, there is a positive relationship between social impact and fourth industrial revolution. The results confirmed that the ability of the University of Hail to respond effectively to the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution and to prepare students for the future jobs, the academic leaders must strive to improve the quality of teaching, learning and research and make learning more relevant to the need of the dynamic society.

    Keywords: fourth industrial revolution, Technology Adoption, Universities, Academic leaders, policy makers

    Received: 28 Aug 2024; Accepted: 15 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Almutairi, Al-Saad, Elmelegy, Bakr, Abdallah and Almotairi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yousef Mubrik Almutairi, University of Hail, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia

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