A Case Study of the Implementation of the 21st Century Classroom at a Foreign Branch Campus University in Malaysia in Preparing Graduates for the 21st Century Workforce

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This is a case study on implementing the 21st-century classroom at a foreign branch campus university in Malaysia in preparing graduates for the 21st-century workforce. This study was conducted as the first step to a more comprehensive research study whereby to understand what a 21st-century classroom and 21st-century workforce is, identify the technological tools being implemented in the 21st-century classroom, and understand how the 21st-century classroom can prepare graduates for the 21st-century workforce. The qualitative data was obtained through face-to-face interviews with four academicians from a private higher learning institution in Sarawak, Malaysia. Carspecken's Critical Ethnography framework guided the semi-structured interviews. The findings were analysed using thematic analysis and found to be consistent with past studies. Hence, this study concluded that implementing the 21st-century classroom is, indeed, directly, and indirectly preparing graduates for the 21st-century workforce, and some recommendations for future research were stated at the end of the study.