Makwela, Mashaole Jacob

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Mr Mashaole Jacob Makwela is an artist, animator/film maker, educator and researcher. He is currently a PhD candidate in Visual Arts and his research interests include, animation studies, liberation struggle history and film studies, new media studies, education in digital arts and entrepreneurship in the context of African centred perspective.

Mashaole Jacob Makwela

Preparing the future workforce in African universities of technology: A case of new media art as a mutating discipline in the 4IR

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Makwela, Mashaole JacobVaal University of Technology
Olalere, Folasayo EnochDurban University of Technology

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Design Education Strategy
Preparing the future workforce in African universities of technology: A case of new media art as a mutating discipline in the 4I

The industrial revolution, a steady process of change that started in the eighteenth century, has been characterised as presenting different phases. The fourth phase (4IR), which signals an unprecedented convergence of physical, digital and biological spheres into technological forces, is transforming jobs faster than employees can adapt, and setting the base for a different kind of skill. Hence, everyone, including arts and design educators, are asking similar questions about its potential challenges and opportunities in their fields, particularly in the African universities of technology that place emphasis on career-directed courses.

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