Designing the Educational Content for the Industry 4.0 Competency Model

In this paper, authors reflect on the methodology used in the Work4Ce-project (Cross-domain competencies for healthy and safe work in the 21st century) to build a competency model for Industry 4.0 in an Education 4.0 environment. The competency model is a tool that clarifies the skills, knowledge, and attitudes a person needs to perform a job in a particular environment and describes what is necessary for a student for a learning module. The methodology of building this model can generally be used to define competency models and build courses in a setup with distributed stakeholders. In a co-creation setup with OpenCops and a Joint Educational system, the different international partners create open educational resources on the different topics for Industry 4.0. The educational resources should serve different target groups: (engineering) students and professionals needing to update and extend their knowledge on the topic.