This book presents how Digital Transformation is a requirement to upgrade Latin American universities to a next level in management, lecturing and learning processes and strategies. The book starts with a thorough introduction of the Latin American context addressing the three main topics in the book: Digital Transformation, Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence & Industry 4.0. They will be depicted by region, with a clear distribution between Central America & Mexico, Comunidad Andina (Perú, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia), Mercosur (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay), and other countries. The book also shows how online learning is a key part of the transformation, with a clear focus on learning management systems, innovation and learning analytics. Further, personalised services for every single profile at the university (students, lecturers, academic managers) are presented to guarantee inclusive education service aggregation for networked campuses. Following, thebook addresses strategy and overall services that concentrate on sustainability and revenue models integrated with a strategic planning.

Finally a set of chapters will show specific experiences and case studies of direct application of Artificial Intelligence and Technology 4.0, where the readers can learn from and transfer directly into their educational contexts.

Autorentext
Daniel Burgos works as a Full Professor of Technologies for Education & Communication and Vice-rector for International Research, at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). He holds a UNESCO Chair on eLearning and the ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources. He is the Director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED). He has implemented more than 60 European and Worldwide R&D projects, and published over 180 research papers and over 25 books. He is a Professor at An-Najah National University (Palestine), an Adjunct Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL, Colombia), an Extraordinary Professor at North-West University (South-Africa) and a Visiting Professor at Coventry University (United Kingdom). He works as a consultant for United Nations (UNECE), European Commission & Parliament, and the Russian Academy of Science. He holds degrees in Communication (PhD), Computer Science (Dr. Ing), Education (PhD), Anthropology (PhD), Business Administration (DBA), Theology (PhD), Management (PhD), Open Science and STEM (PhD) and Artificial Intelligence (MIT, postgraduate).

John W. Branch received the B.S. degree in Mining and Metallurgical engineer and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, in 1995, 1997, and 2007, respectively. Since 2000, he has been a full-time Professor with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has directed 50 master's theses and 15 Ph.D. theses and currently directs five Ph.D. theses and ten master's. In the last 20 years as a Professor, he has more than 200 scientific publications in national and international journals and conferences, mostly related to his research theme Artificial Intelligence,Computer Vision Digital Transformation and related areas. He has received the following prizes and distinctions, namely the Meritorious degree Work on mining and metallurgy engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in 1995, the Fourth Place Best Grade Contest VI Version from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in 1996, the Thesis of Meritorious degree, Postgraduate in computer engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in 1997, and the Meritorious Ph.D Thesis from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in 2007.

Inhalt
Part 1: The Latin American Context.- Chapter 1: Digital Transformation across the Continent.- Chapter 2: Higher Education across the Continent.- Chapter 3: Artificial Intelligence and Industry 4.0 across the Continent.- Part 2: Learning Contexts and Settings.- Chapter 4: Learning Management Systems and Online Settings.- Chapter 5: Learning Analytics Applied to Online and Blended Settings.- Chapter 6: Online Innovation in Higher Education Contexts.- Part 3: Emerging AI and Technology 4.0 Trends in Education.- Chapter 7: Aggregated Resources and Networks for a Global Campus.- Chapter 8: Personalised, Adaptive Services for Students, Professors and Academics Managers.- Chapter 9: Inclusive and Integrative Technology in Education.- Part 4: Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation.- Chapter 10: From Face-to-Face Processes to Cloud Services and Online Environments.- Chapter 11: Business and Sustainability Models for Universities.- Chapter 12: Strategic Planning and Academic Management.- Part 5: Case Studies.- Chapter 13: Digital Transformation as a Backbone of a Higher Education Institution: Case Study.