Innovative Digital Educational Ecosystem as a Basis for Transition to Industry 4.0

Abstract

The article considers an innovative digital educational ecosystem as a basis for creating conditions that increase the competitiveness of universities, organizations and territories. The society will have to go through a radical transformation of the educational paradigm, as a result of which universities will take on a decisive role in introducing innovations and commercializing scientific and technical developments. The role of transformational processes in Industry 4.0 is shown, requiring the reform of educational ecosystems in universities. The ecosystem approach to education must become more efficient and effective than traditional hierarchical models. The elements of an innovative digital educational ecosystem and the mechanisms of interaction between its participants are determined. The author proposes a conceptual model of the digital education ecosystem based on educational and production clusters as a universal model for the interaction of complex nonlinear systems. The basis of the ecosystem is an innovative platform that regulates many horizontal communications in the form of research centers, innovation laboratories, startup schools. The methods used are a systematic approach, a competence-based approach and the theory of innovative development, the concept of innovative implementation, a cluster concept, the concept of using search engines, the detection of the Triple and Quadruple Helix. As a result of the study, the relative use of the innovative digital educational ecosystem as a universal model for the development of universal education is shown.