SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 4 TOWARDS GOLDEN INDONESIA: CROSS-BORDER EDUCATION
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https://doi.org/10.15282/ijhtc.v10i1.12753Keywords:
Cross-border education, SDG4, Soft skills, Hard skills, Educational technologyAbstract
This study explores the importance of balancing hard skills, soft skills, and trends in educational technology innovation in cross-border education to support the ability to adapt to new environments. This study, using document and conceptual analysis. Indonesia implements the concept of cross-border education for Sustainable Development Goal of four through two programs: student exchange and student exchange between ASEAN countries. This program implementation emphasizes the importance of educational institutions in developing soft skills, improving hard skills, and broadening insights into technological trends in education. The higher education curriculum in Indonesia is expected to meet the needs of the labor market with the need for soft skills of 80%, hard skills of twenty per cent and technological trends and innovation for career success. This study identifies various challenges in the implementation of cross-border education in Indonesia, such as the still minimal weight of soft skills in the university curriculum and there are still many obstacles in technological trends and educational innovations, such as the gap in access to technology, digital skills of teachers and education personnel and the availability of quality learning materials. Educational facilities related to technology and educational innovation in Indonesia still need to be perfectly distributed.
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