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In this TEFFIC element, we will look at the full picture; how is the world-of-work affected by the industry 4.0 paradigm, and how can we meet this challenges in an educational context.

Industry 4.0 give new challenges to the world-of-work. Collaboration in teams and networks of professionals will be the standard for problem solving. Thus, the skilled workers and professionals must be able to communicate across professions, technical domains, languages and cultures. Engineers and technicians must understand business models, economy and logistics - as well as their chosen domain. A holistic approach to the different industrial processes is required.

This means that the professionals must have an inter-disciplinary competence. But it is not enough to know a little about a lot, you also need to have in-depth knowledge and skills in several domains.

To facilitate learning processes that can build such competences, TEFFIC recommends a student-centred approach, were the learning task's attributes is important. The tasks must be as authentic as possible, preferably provided from the industry itself. To solve the tasks, the students are organized in teams composed according to their skills and personalities.

TEFFIC also account for a technological approach to synchronous and asynchronous learning to reach the was group of employees in the world-of-work in need of reskilling and upskilling to meet the digitalisation of their work processes. The pedagogical framework presents online learning, blended learning, flipped classroom and simulator learning as means for effective, efficient and engaging Industry 4.0 learning processes. At the same time TEFFIC stress the importance of student - educator contact, feedback and reflection for quality learning outcome.

We hope that you have enjoyed the TEFFIC Industry 4.0 pedagogical framework and have found useful elements for your own practice. TEFFIC is a project funded by EU through the ERASMUS+ programme. Participants in the international group are Aalborg University, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Thomas More in Belgium, TALTECH of Estonia and Fagskolen Tinius Olsen in Norway. The lead applicant and coordinator of the project is the University College of Northern Denmark.