Education 4.0 Approach for New Careers at Mexico City-IPN

Abstract

Mexico City Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) has carried out Academic Programs development that respond to public and private productive sector’s needs, performing an evaluation process that allows curricular strengths and weaknesses identification. This process is an essential exercise that allows to systematically collect quantitative and qualitative data to support new careers creation with solid arguments for their realization. Every Academic Programs design consists of a deep analysis of similar careers in other national and international educational institutions, external references as every career basis, labor market analysis of each proposed topics to determine industry needs and verify their relevance. Subsequently, objectives, educational profile, mission, vision, and graduation profile are defined to rise the program curricular structure, defining learning units and their characteristics (number of theoretical and practical hours, credits), knowledge transfer, teaching strategies and other curricular elements. The design of the trajectories or curricular maps of the Upper Middle High Level programs, comprise learning units cataloged in three training areas: (1) Institutional training, (2) Basic scientific, humanistic, and technological training and (3) Vocational training, meanwhile Higher Education programs comprise learning units cataloged in four training areas: (1) Institutional training, (2) Basic scientific training, (3) Professional training and (4) Terminal and integration training. This paper shows a brief description of the new careers created in the 20182019 period, considering the most important characteristics, curricular trajectories with an Education 4.0 approach.