The current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing, and cognitive computing, and creating the ‘smart factory’ is known as Industry 4.0 (I4.0). It concerns the digital transformation of manufacturing/production and related industries and value creation processes. The Forth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0) comprises the digital transformation of industry and business, a world where individuals move between digital domains and offline reality using connected technology to enable and manage their lives.
This rapidly changing economic reality requires professionals to be equipped with entrepreneurial and networking skills to make them more competitive internationally and digital skills to acquire much-needed competencies and expand their professional knowledge. To fit contemporary European teaching standards based on competencies rather than job profiles, the new trends of Education 4.0 align humans to technology and offer competence-oriented learning processes and Industry 4.0-oriented skills to gain these competencies.
Education 4.0 (E4.0) is a new vision of learning, promoting learners to learn the skills and knowledge needed and identifying the source to learn these skills and knowledge. In E4.0, learning can happen anytime and anywhere in a personalized to individual student mode. Students practice more project-based and hands-on learning and data interpretation. They have a choice in determining how they want to learn. They are more independent in their learning, encouraging the tutors to assume the new role of facilitators. In E4.0, the assessment is different. Students’ opinion matters in designing and updating the curriculum.
Learn more about the major trends of Education 4.0 in the information data below.
Industry 4.0 Disruption and Its Neologisms in Major Industrial Sectors: A State of the Art
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8090521
The core components of education 4.0 in higher education: Three case studies in engineering education
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107278
Redesigning Curriculum in line with Industry 4.0
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.04.093
Education 4.0: defining the teacher, the student, and the school manager aspects of the revolution
http://dx.doi.org/10.17718/tojde.770896
Digital Revolution of Education 4.0
https://www.ijeat.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v9i2/A1293109119.pdf
Components of Education 4.0 in 21st Century Skills Frameworks: Systematic Review
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358170828
Education 4.0 Made Simple: Ideas for Teaching
http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.6n.3p.92
University 4.0: The Industry 4.0 paradigm applied to Education
https://hal-univ-pau.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02957371
Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Transition to Education 4.0*
https://www.academia.edu/63421484/Teaching_in_the_Fourth_Industrial_Revolution
New ways of learning for industry 4.0
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/itse-11-2021-0201/full/html
Defining Education 4.0: A Taxonomy for the Future of Learning
https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/defining-education-4-0-a-taxonomy-for-the-future-of-learning/