The Concept of Educational Process of Smart-Economists Training for Industry 4.0

摘要

The article deals with the current transition of enterprises to Industry 4.0, and new requirements which specialists should meet in a rapidly changing environment. Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, modeling are determined as instruments for providing effective activity of the enterprise. Under new conditions functional of economic and financial services will undergo changes in accordance with new requests of manufacturing and business sectors related to mass application of automation and robotization at enterprises. The paper introduces "SMART-economist" as a new term and provides the competence that he is to obtain. The authors substantiate and disclose the main elements of the concept of SMART-economist training based on project and practice-oriented approaches for his successful adaptation to digital economy. Much attention is given to role change of a higher education teacher from a knowledge transfer to tutoring. Students form, model and regulate training process in virtual environment themselves while tutor performs a coordinating, consulting and supervising role. The method of elements of the educational process is developed and partially tested on the basis of concept of SMART-economist training presented by the authors. It is reported that the method is implemented on the basis of a virtual platform as an educational virtual environment. The training process takes place in the form of project training based on the virtual enterprise in order to transform it up to level 4.0. Incoming information in it's speed and volume cause to development of new concepts of training process of SMART-economist, which are becoming of great importance during transition process to Industry 4.0.