What is Education 4.0? How you can adapt to this learning environment?

April 8, 2019 EditorEducation 4.0

The way Industrial Revolution 4.0 is transforming the world, technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT),
Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are impacting major industries, and in turn, jobs. It can be
considered similar to the replacement of manual jobs by machine-handled tasks that occurred as a
revolution in the 21st Century. This implies that Industry 4.0 will not only affect industries but
consequently will transform the way jobs and education will be seen. This will result in the evolution of
education 4.0.

Thus, it can be said that the fourth industrial revolution will affect the roles for which today’s students
will be prepared. This will require educational institutions to produce a workforce for working in this
technologically transformed era. Further, it will also require the current workforce to upgrade their skills
and knowledge to match these newly created job roles. For this, a revolution in education is essential to
enable people worldwide to harness the opportunities created by the advent of these technologies.

This transformation of the education industry will make it more personalised, peer-to-peer, and a
continuous process. So, what is Education 4.0? Let us look at some pointers that can describe the future
of education:

It will cater to the need of Industry 4.0 enabling the workforce and machines to align to explore new
possibilities.

It will deploy the potential of digital technologies, open-sourced content and personalised data of this
globally connected and tech-driven world.

It will create a blueprint for the future of learning – from school-based learning to learning at the
workplace.

A few trends in this evolution of learning can be listed down as below:

Accelerate Remote Learning

Education 4.0 will enable learning anytime, anywhere as the e-learning tools and applications will
provide opportunities for remote, self-paced learning. The role of classrooms will change wherein
theoretical knowledge will be imparted outside the classroom while practical or experiential knowledge
will be imparted face-to-face.
Personalised Learning

Education 4.0 will also enable personalised learning for students depending on their capabilities. This
means that above average students will be challenged with tasks that are difficult as compared to
students who are below average. This implies that there will be individual learning processes for each
student. It will surely have a positive impact as it will enable students to learn at their pace. This will
result in a better understanding of the concepts and an overall better result. It will also help teachers to
identify the strengths and weaknesses of each student individually and guide them accordingly.

Choice of Education Tools

A part of Education 4.0 will be the technology/devices used by students to gain an education. While
every subject has its own set of knowledge and information that the students can grasp, the road to
attaining this knowledge can vary. This means that the students will be able to choose the tools and
techniques through which they want to acquire this knowledge. Techniques like blended learning, BYOD
(Bring Your Own Device) and flipped classrooms are a few examples of this.

Project-based Learning

The freelance economy is on the rise and will continue to do so. This means that the students of today
will need to adapt to project-based learning and working styles. They will need to hone their skills and
learn how to apply and mould them as per situations. Thus, students should be acquainted with project-
based learning during high school education. This part of Education 4.0 will teach them organisational
skills, time management skills, and collaborative skills, that they can further use in their academic
careers as well as employment.

Field-specific Experience

As technology integration in specific domains facilitates more efficiency; the education curriculum will
now accommodate more skills that require human knowledge and personal interaction. This will result in
more emphasis on imparting field-specific knowledge to the students within the existing courses. This
means that schools will now provide more opportunities for students to obtain real-world skills that are
relevant to the prospecting job opportunities. Thus, the school curriculum will now include enhanced
subject knowledge that can help students with their future internships, projects, etcetera.

Data Analysis
There were times when analysts used to collect and sort data manually – this is now done through the
use of computers. Additionally, computers will also be used for all kinds of statistical analysis – describing
and analysing data and predicting future trends. Education 4.0 will train students to apply theoretical
knowledge and use human reasoning to examine the patterns and predict trends.

Changes in Exam Pattern and Assessment

The current student pattern of rote learning, wherein students blindly memorise the information given in
the curriculum and write down their exams, will not be the trend anymore. Here, it is essential to
understand that a traditional Q&A or subjective writing examination may not suffice the needs of future
talent requirements. This means that the assessments, as part of Education 4.0, will not be solely based
on the current examination patterns. It will be done by analysing their learning journey through practical
and experiential learning-based projects or field works.

The impact of technology on the education industry will not only transform the way it is imparted, but
also the way students perceive education. Education 4.0, or the future of education as many call it, will
change the teaching-learning methodologies to make the students future ready. It is time to witness this
change and inculcate it in our lives so that we can move towards a progressive, intellectual, knowledge-
driven and future-ready world.

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Why Education 4.0 is the latest trend in the education field

What is education 4.0?

Broadly speaking, education 4.0 is a school of thought that encourages non-traditional thinking when it
comes to imparting education. Education 4.0 essentially uses technology-based tools and resources to
drive education in non-traditional ways. This means that students are no longer in traditional classrooms
learning from teachers using textbooks, pens and papers only. Instead, with Education 4.0, you can have
remote students that sign into their classrooms using the internet through modes like massive online
open courses or video chat or dialling in through voice calls, to learn materials that are more dynamic in
nature with peers who might or might not be learning at the same pace as them.
Education 4.0 was developed as a response to Industry 4.0 that saw a marked increase in the use of
internet-based technology and communication tools across industries. Many other industries responded
to this change in the way of doing business, resulting in Healthcare 4.0, Technology 4.0, etc. The
educational ecosystem was no different. Education 4.0 is developed as a response to Industry 4.0, in
order to create trained, qualified professionals who are ready for a highly globalised and digital-driven
world of work.

Why do we need education 4.0?

More and more modern research shows us that education must keep pace with the world it is training
students for, for them to have safe futures that are financially viable. Education 4.0 ensures that the
teaching experience is similar to the working experience by creating a similar environment for both,
through the use of technologies and tools that are endemic to Education 4.0.

Education 4.0 is thus a more realistic and practical approach to learning, resulting in great student
learning outcomes. It is important to keep pace with the changing world, and Education 4.0 being the
approach implemented across educational institutions ensures that.

Research also shows that increased personalisation in education leads to better student learning
outcomes. Education 4.0 makes this personalised learning possible. This is because Education 4.0 uses
tools like smart school management systems, learning management software, communication tools etc.
to help with teaching and learning. Personalised learning through Education 4.0 results in faster
understanding, more learning of diverse materials that actually interests the students, more
specialisation, and better recall. It also means that students get a head start on becoming experts in
what they are interested in – overall, Education
4.0 leads to better learning outcomes for students in terms of their real academic or professional
interests.

How does Education 4.0 benefit teaching staff?

Education 4.0 is a system that benefits multiple stakeholders – especially teaching staff and educators.
Educators might feel that the Education 4.0 philosophy of personalised learning just means more work
for them, but this is not actually the case. Instead, education 4.0 really benefits teachers and educators
in educational institutions because they are able to better serve their students’ specific needs.

Teachers are finally able to teach to students instead of the curriculum thanks to Education 4.0 – the use
of tools and technology makes it easier to provide this personalised learning attention for them. This
results in better student learning outcomes which means better teaching outcomes also since the
teaching educators and teachers are doing actually results in practical results.

Education 4.0 also empowers teachers and educators by giving them tools that make their jobs easier. A
school management system like Fedena, for example, helps teachers better communicate with their
student but more efficiently and quickly. It reduces administrative burdens on them by automating many
processes, while also modernising some teaching processes and methods. Education 4.0 is built for
teachers to feel empowered and be better at their jobs, which in turn improves student learning
outcomes.

How do Education 4.0 benefit management and administrators?

Education 4.0 is not just for teachers, educators, and students. Management and non-education staff,
like administrators, can also benefit from education 4.0. This is primarily because education 4.0 is built
around the optimal use of tools and resources driven by technology. These tools, like school
management systems, are often built to make the running of educational institutions more efficient and
reduce the labour and financial burden on already overworked administrative staff.

Education 4.0 allows these workers to shed the burden of tiresome, error-prone processes and instead
focus on what they are best at. This positively affects student learning outcomes – administrative staff is
better able to focus on supporting their needs instead of being distracted by having to put out fires that
have been ignited due to inefficiencies in the system or being consumed by the day to day running of an
office.
For management, education 4.0 makes the system more efficient, which obviously has better financial
outcomes – the reduction of overheads caused by inefficiencies will result in saving money, which is
always needed for any educational institution. Secondly, management can also move towards more
productive workplaces and thus a more productive business model under Education 4.0.

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How does Education 4.0 benefit students?

This is the key goal of Education 4.0 for all educational institutions – to benefit students and improve
student learning outcomes. Students are the ultimate stakeholders in any educational ecosystem and the
key beneficiary everyone is working for in the educational ecosystem in general.

Education 4.0 centres students as the beneficiary like never before. Through the use of technology,
students have better access and relationships with their various other stakeholders in the system – from
better communication with teachers, more allied goals with parents, and management and
administration also find it easier to help the student overall. Student learning outcomes improve
proportionately to how well education 4.0 is implemented.

Education 4.0 also helps with better learning itself – most tools and technologies that education 4.0
relies on are built to help students learn much better and more effectively than previous teaching and
learning methodologies. Often times, the learning is personalised to the student’s interest in Education
4.0, which means that there is already an inherent interest that the learning material is catering to.

Education 4.0 also makes learning more accessible – from using dynamic teaching material like images
and video to keep students interested to having learning materials be accessible more easily to students
across devices and platforms to even students being able to log in any time and from anywhere to learn
at their own pace. Education 4.0 is truly revolutionary in terms of strongly improving student learning
outcomes.

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