Higher Education 4.0: The Digital Transformation of Classroom Lectures to Blended Learning

¿Kevin Anthony Jones is Professor of computer science and currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Inclusive Digital Enterprise (CeIDE); he is also a Senior Fellow in Advance Higher Education, and based in Singapore. In this COVID-19 year, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Dubai. Prior to that, he served for over 17 years of experience as an academic at Nanyang Technological University. His discipline expertise is software system engineering and deployment, which he extends to his life-long passion of innovational learning and teaching in tertiary education. His most recent major experiments via the design-based research methodology enabled by new educational technology are core course: A) active (no lecturing) blended learning during 2007-2011, and B) flipped classroom during 2014-2018. In parallel since 2009, Kevin has been conducting ongoing research in serious games, MOOCs, and active-video-learning prototypes, with a view to incorporating them into full-time courses. In his spare time, he is completing an eBook on software system analysis and design, grounded in active-learning preceptsRavishankar Sharma is currently Chair of the Information Systems Group at the University of Canterbury Business School (New Zealand) and Founding Director of the Centre for Inclusive Digital Enterprise - CeIDE. Prior to this, he was Visiting Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC Business School (Asia Pacific). He received the B.Sc. (Com. Sci., Math. & Econ.) from Brandon, M.Sc. (Com. Sci.) from Regina, and Ph.D. (Management Sciences) from Waterloo. He has held academic appointments for over two decades at NTU, St FX, and visiting appointments at the Institute of Technology Bandung, USC Marshall School, IIT Bombay, IMD, and the SP Jain School of Global Management. He has spent 10 years in industry as Asean Communications Industry Principal at IBM Global Services and Director of the Multimedia Competency Centre of Deutsche Telekom Asia. His teaching, consulting, and research interests are in knowledge and digital economic strategies; focused on digital transformations using data analytics and design thinking. He has also been involved in Singapore's Initiative for Asean Integration by training senior officials in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar in Advanced IT Planning. He has successfully secured over $1m in grants as Principal Investigator of the NCB-funded S-ONE field trials, an NRF-funded project that calls itself the Special Interest Group on Interactive Digital Enterprises (SIGIDE) and an MoE tier 2 grant on digital literacies, knowledge societies, and sustainable development.