Curriculum development of vocational electrical engineering to accommodate industry revolution 4.0

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S.A. Ishak, S. Sukardi

2020 IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 830 Issue 4 Conference paper Cited by 3 SDG 4 Quartile

Abstract

The curriculum is an important component of education which has a role to prepare students to face opportunities and challenges in the future. Nowadays, the industry revolution 4.0 era has a major influence on the educational changes. In developing the curriculum as a whole, adjusting to the latest conditions and demands of the working world in the form of upskilling and reskilling projections, as well as the students' needs. The purpose of this study was to describe the direction of developing a vocational curriculum in order to accommodate the demands of industry revolution 4.0 as an innovative content curriculum in vocational electrical engineering education. Method this study was qualitative approach with literature review. The results obtained showed that the curriculum development of vocational electrical engineering education must pay attention to the latest trends of the working world which can lead students to work independently and be able to develop the 4C soft skills (critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication) skills as a complement to the hard skills which basically leads to the presence of the complex and collaborative measure to prepare students to compete in the working world and accommodate the demands of industry revolution 4.0. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Vocational Technology Education Program, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Karang Malang, Caturtunggal, Kabupaten Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia

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