The book focuses on the issue of adapting the higher education system to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Lifelong learning is suggested as a prospective path for this adaptation. The book includes a discussion of empirical experience and the forms of lifelong learning in Central Asia. The book also explains the essence, discusses practical experience, and offers practical recommendations for improving the management of the development of Educational Technology (EdTech) and higher education 4.0 in the conditions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Central Asia. The book explains the impact of the innovative economy and smart regulation of education on lifelong learning in Central Asia. It offers a competency-based approach and applied educational technologies for lifelong learning in the Central Asian countries.

The book's novelty lies in its comprehensive exploration and detailed discussion of the unique experience of developing lifelong learning in Central Asia. The scientific and practical value of the book also lies in its proposal of a new paradigm for developing higher education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this new paradigm, the higher education system emerged as the driving force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution through establishing Universities 4.0 and the intensified development of EdTech. The primary target audience of this book consists of scholars studying higher education issues. For them, the book reevaluates the concept of lifelong learning in the contemporary context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Includes case studies of the experience of Russia and Central Asia to illustrate concept of lifelong learning Dwells on the digital perspectives of the development of lifelong learning in Russia and Central Asia Considers lifelong learning from the position of the higher educational services market and the labour market

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Prof. Dr.  Elena G. Popkova, Doctor of Economics, is the Founder and President of the Institute of Scientific Communications (Volgograd, Russia), a leading researcher of the Center for applied research of the chair "Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership" of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Moscow, Russia. She is the author of more than 150 publications in Scopus (h-index: 31). She is also editor of more than 50 books and a large number of special issues of international peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies and the International Journal for Quality Research. She is the Recipient of Highly Commended Paper Award for the journal On the Horizon for 2020 (Emerald). She is Honoured worker of science and high technologies of the Russian Federation and Honoured professor of Osh State University (Osh, Kyrgyzstan). She is among Scopus top 2% of most-cited scholars of the world in 2019-2021.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Mentorship Laboratories in Education for Filling Competency Gaps and Lifelong Learning for Healthcare Professionals.- Chapter 2. The Economic Essence of Lifelong Learning from the Point of View of the Beneficiaries of Educational Transformation.- Chapter 3. Opportunities of Lifelong Learning Technologies for the Development of Education Amid the Global Digital Transformation and Financialization of the World Economy.- Chapter 4. Role of Cooperation in Youth Development with the Help of Higher Education.- Chapter 5. Financing Educational Institutions: Challenges and Prospects in Today's Environment.- Chapter 6. Improving the Sustainable Development of the Personnel Management System in Service Organizations Using the Competency-based Approach in Education and HRM.- Chapter 7. Development of Higher Education in Central Asia in the Context of the Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 8. The National Strategy for the Development of Education in Kyrgyzstan: Problems and Prospects in the Era of University 4.0.- Chapter 9. EdTech and Universities 4.0: a Contribution to the Reduction of the Divide between the University Education Market and the Job Market.- Chapter 10. The Scientific and Educational Component in the Universities of the New Model (Using the Kyrgyz Republic as an Example).- Chapter 11. Transformation of Professional Competencies Under the Influence of Industrial Revolutions as a Challenge for the Education System.- Chapter 12. Digital Innovations in Education for Training Human Resources in Society.- Chapter 13. Advanced Technologies of Digital Innovation of Educational Activities in the Training of Future Specialists.- Chapter 14. Deformations of the Innovative Development Model in the Conditions of the Unleashing of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Problem of the Development of Labor and Education Markets.- Chapter 15. Smart Regulation as a Policy Tool in Science and Education.- Chapter 16. Problems of Legal Regulation of Teaching Activity in University Education in the Context of Smart Regulation Theory.- Chapter 17. Problems and Prospects of Training in Higher Education for the Digital Economy in Peru.- Chapter 18. Transformation of the Higher Education System Through the Implementation of Contemporary Approaches to the Development of Tax Education.- Chapter 19. Some Methods of Teaching Mathematics in Educational Institutions by Integrating with the Subjects of Natural Sciences.- Chapter 20. Formation of Stress Resistance as a Professionally Significant Quality of Future Social Workers in the Process of Higher Education.- Chapter 21. Formation of Stress Resistance as a Professionally Significant Quality of Future Social Workers in the Process of Higher Education.- Chapter 22. Socio-humanitarian Aspects of the Problem of Development of Spiritual and Moral Consciousness of Contemporary Society: Means of Education.