Leveraging on the Fourth-Industrial-Revolution on Digital Skills Acquisition among undergraduate students in Tai-Solarin University of Education, Ogun State, Nigeria

The study leveraging on the fourth- industrial-revolution on digital skills acquisition among undergraduate students in Tai-Solarin University of Education, Ogun State.Two research questions guided the study. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of this study comprised undergraduates of Educational Technology in Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED). 95 undergraduates of the Department of Educational Technology were selected as sample size of the study using stratified sampling technique. A self-researcher-designed instrument tagged Fourth Industrial Revolution (41R) and Undergraduates Digital Skills Acquisition Questionnaire (4FIRUDSAQ) was used for data collection with reliability coefficient 0.88. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used for answering research question 1. Research question 2 was answered using PPMC. The findings of the study revealed that coding, data analytics, data literacy, digital marketing, online safety, problem solving, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and collaboration digital skills were among digital skills needed by undergraduates to functions effectively in the labour market for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (41R) (3.10 > 2.50). There was a positive relationship between Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and digital skills acquisition among undergraduate students in Tai Solarin University of Education (r = 0.468, p < .05). The study recommended that undergraduates should be encouraged to be lifelong and life-wide learners to develop the capabilities needed in ever changing world.