Investigating Initiatives to Promote the Advancement of Education 4.0: A Systematic Mapping Study

The digitization of the industry, known as Industry 4.0, is changing the modes of production and service. These changes arouse the need to prepare employees to work on the production lines. In this perspective arise the concept of Education 4.0 to preparing young with the competencies and skills required in the 21st-Century, such as creativity, problem-solving, and mastery of technologies. This paper presents a Systematic Mapping Study that had the aim to identify initiatives in Education 4.0 and Industry 4.0 developed to promote the advancement of education. Following a formal protocol, automatic and manual searches were carried out. Of the 1732 studies returned by automatic and manual searches, 78 were extracted, because it meets the inclusion criteria defined. The results showed that (a) there is a growing interest in this topic in recent years and tends to increase the number of searches due to its value for industry; and (b) there is greater interaction between the university and the industry, which allows the student to gain not only knowledge but also gain valuable experience in the industry. Based on the results, we found that learning in the context of Education 4.0 allows students to have an education more aligned to the contemporary world.