ABSTRACT
The 4.0 industrial revolution digital technology based make some workplace are lost and appear automatically. Higher education must prepare students to be ready to win in the global competitiveness in this era. New orientation is needed by educators and learning processes in higher education to develop students’ higher order thinking skills to solve problems in their lives. Chemistry education focuses on preparing students to comprehend modeling skills to develop their cognitive capacity, higher order thinking skills and higher order mental skills. The results of this research show that using modeling skills in the chemistry learning process enable students to comprehend the concepts, connect the concepts in daily life and advance technology, and also predict the future application of materials based on their structures. It gives the insight that integrating modeling skills in higher chemistry learning as an innovation learning to prepare students’ global competitiveness in order to be survivors.
