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However, due to COVID-19 pandemic, all universities shut down and continued its role of providing educational services and keeping work going on using digital learning and technological work systems. Using a survey implemented in different universities for various colleges directed to faculty staff and students, the study tries to explain how the fourth industrial revolution is influencing higher education and how universities are prepared to face their challenges resulted from COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia. The study tries to explain how the fourth industrial revolution can play the role of catalyst for improving productivity, learning outcome, and wellbeing-work environment in these uncertain circumstances. Results display that digital learning is distinct compared to traditional learning, it improves the students learning outcome, enhance the faculty member’s capabilities and implementation of technical systems, develops staff productivity and work environment.  \nKeywords: Higher Education, Digital Learning, Technological Change, COVID-19, Saudi Arabia.  \nIntroduction  \nToday we are living a global, important, and complex technological progress involving change in the public sector, private sector, academic sphere, and civil society. A new chapter in the human development derived from the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) showing that it is not just a “technologydriven change, but it is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policy-makers and people from all income groups and nations, to harness converging technologies in order to create an inclusive, human-centred future” (Pombo et al. 2018) . The fourth industrial revolution, known as the digital revolution, characterized by a fusion of technologies in economic, social, and human environments.“Schwab, from the World Economic Forum, is the first person to introduce the world to the concept of the 4IR, and he does it through his book “Shaping the future of the fourth industrial revolution”.  \nThe idea born since the early of 2000s with Germany manufacturing industry and seems to be fundamentally different. It characterized the speed and original technologies, which are merging the physical, digital and biological worlds, affecting all domains, economies, industries, and humans. The most important key tools that are mainly driving this merger: Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Advanced Robotics, Quantum Computing and Energy Storage (Brown-Martin, 2018) . Keeping all these introduced digital systems, the COVID-19 Pandemic, originated from Asia since December 2019 and continues to spread globally as there have been 6,194,533 confirmed cases in more than 200 countries around the World, including 376,320 deaths, reported to Word Health Organization by 2 June 2020. The global outbreak brought a lot of economic and socio-economic uncertainties and change healthy lifestyle practices. Governments around the world are forced to respond and reduce its tremendous effects on all live aspects, higher education is one of the sectors, which is strongly affected by the consequences of this pandemic.  \nUniversities in Saudi Arabia have shut down its doors, ceased all its traditional services of learning, and turned to use digital learning and technological distance work systems. They make use of the digital systems provided by the 4IR and applied the most appropriate learning systems, and its work is running fluently throughout the different academic and administrative levels following the technological communication","cbCaiuA2RwPWTLEo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuA2RwPWTLEo","pdf",360520,16,"English","# Introduction\n## Fourth industrial revolution and digital transformation\n## COVID-19 impacts on higher education\n## Saudi higher education shift to digital systems\n## Saudi Vision 2030 and implications\n## Workforce upskilling and training needs","[{\"question\":\"What technologies and approaches are evaluated in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study focuses on fourth industrial revolution technologies and emphasizes digital learning and technological work systems as substitutes for traditional learning and work arrangements.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the research conducted?\",\"answer\":\"The study used a survey implemented across different universities and colleges, collecting input from faculty staff and students.\"},{\"question\":\"What results does the paper report for digital learning and work systems?\",\"answer\":\"Results indicate that digital learning improves students’ learning outcomes, enhances faculty capabilities, and supports better staff productivity and work environment.\"}]","COVID-19 and the Digital Transformation of Saudi Higher Education | PDF",1792076199]