From e-Learning to Industry 4.0

Keywords like Flexible Learning revolution, e-Learning, Life-Long Learning, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Blended Learning, Flipped Classrooms, Learning Analytics, or Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent just few of the headlines dominating the last two decades of the education development. All of them are strongly influenced and conditioned by the Internet phenomenon. Of course, this list is still far from being complete. One could continue with numerous more recent keywords as Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, or Industry 4.0 that are again strongly related to the Internet. All these words appeared as slogans of numerous campaigns in the society development typically having a hype-cycle features. The presentation commemorates several moments of previous development, the good, the bad and the ugly. In such a context it introduces the latest initiative presented as Industry 4.0 and its importance for the automotive industry in Slovakia. Then it raises several questions concerning sustainability of the future development. Based on previous experience it concludes by the statement that the slogan Industry 4.0 is not complete. If it will not simultaneously include also massive extension to Industry. 4.University and Industry.4.Teachers activities, a sustainable development will be seriously jeopardized, at least in the Central Europe.