Why Re-focus on IoT in education? Evidence of the PARADIGM Project (original) (raw)

Considerations for an Internet of Things Curriculum

2018

Educating the next generation of engineers to be able to design and develop the rapidly increasing need for Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical System (CPS) devices is imperative. The goal of this study is to determine the state of this educational need. This paper presents a: (1) mapping study to learn about existing research and proposed courses educating students to build IoT and CPS systems; and a (2) Programs Review for CPS/IoT-related courses currently being offered at the top 50 universities ranked by Collegechoice.net. The resulting courses from the mapping study and programs review are extensively analyzed and mapped to the NIST Network of Things primitives and the ACM/IEEE Computer Science Knowledge Areas. In addition to highlighting specific projects, the goal of this paper is to assist in the effort to build or adapt programs that academic institutions currently offer to meet the current and future IoT/CPS training and employment needs.

Co-Designing the Kits of IoT Devices for Inquiry-Based Learning in STEM

2019

The rapidly developing technological landscape challenges require educational institutions to constantly renew the school's digital infrastructure in order to keep students engaged in learning difficult subjects such as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of such new technology platforms that could help the schools enhance learning processes with innovative resources, and to increase students' motivation to learn. This paper summarizes the first stage of a design-based research focusing on introducing IoT technologies to secondary education. Five kits of IoT devices were co-designed by researchers, teachers, and students, to optimize their match with the curricular objectives, cost, learning curve, and re-usability in various educational contexts. The study included three steps: (1) mapping out the IoT devices on the basis of the desk research, (2) literature review on STEM education practices, and (3) two focus group...

Training teachers on the Internet of Things (Evaluation)

2021

Melissa Dagley is the Executive Director of Initiatives in STEM (iSTEM) at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Dagley serves as Director of the previously NSF-funded STEP 1a program ”EXCEL:UCFSTEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence” and PI for the NSF-funded STEP 1b program ”Convincing Outstanding-Math-Potential Admits to Succeed in STEM (COMPASS)”. She is currently a Co-PI for the Girls EXCELling in Math and Science (GEMS) and WISE@UCF industry funded women’s mentoring initiatives. Through iSTEM Dr. Dagley works to promote and enhance collaborative efforts on STEM education and research by bringing together colleges, centers, and institutes on campus, as well as other stakeholders with similar interest in STEM initiatives. Her research interests lie in the areas of student access to education, sense of community, retention, first-year experience, living-learning communities, and persistence to graduation for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

Teaching IoT: Use Case from a School of Engineers

International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 2024

The main benefit of teaching IoT in today's classroom is that students are learning crucial skills they'll need in the futurewhether that's at work or at home. Schools can also benefit from the Internet of Things in several ways. This article presents some techniques of teaching on connected objects. Our work is focused on active pedagogy wich is widely integrated in order to involve students in the theoretical part and to create a prototype of an object having an application purpose. The integration of this teaching into a school of engineers illustrates its implementation.

Internet of Things Education

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019

Educating the next generation of engineers to be able to design and develop the rapidly increasing need for Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical System (CPS) devices is imperative. The goal of this study is to determine the state of this educational need. This paper presents a: (1) mapping study to learn about existing research and proposed courses educating students to build IoT and CPS systems; and a (2) Programs Review for CPS/IoT-related courses currently being offered at the top 50 universities ranked by Collegechoice.net. The resulting courses from the mapping study and programs review are extensively analyzed and mapped to the NIST Network of Things primitives and the ACM/IEEE Computer Science Knowledge Areas. In addition to highlighting specific projects, the goal of this paper is to assist in the effort to build or adapt programs that academic institutions currently offer to meet the current and future IoT/CPS training and employment needs.

Integrating IoT Technologies into the CS Curriculum at PVAMU: A Case Study

Education Sciences

With sensors becoming increasingly ubiquitous, there is tremendous potential for innovative Internet of Things (IoT) applications across a wide variety of domains, including healthcare, agriculture, entertainment, environmental monitoring, and transportation. The rapid growth of IoT applications has increased the demand for experienced professionals with strong IoT hands-on skills. However, undergraduate students in STEM education still lack experience in how to use IoT technologies to develop such innovative applications. This is in part because the current computing curricula do not adequately cover the fundamental concepts of IoT. This paper presents a case study from integrating innovative IoT technologies into the Computer Science (CS) curriculum at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). This paper presents a set of IoT learning modules that can be easily integrated into existing courses of CS curriculum to engage students in smart-IoT. The modules developed have been used to int...

IoT Trainer Kit Training For Vocational School Teachers As Preparation Towards The 4.0 Industry Era

REKA ELKOMIKA: Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat

In welcoming industry 4.0, teachers in vocational education are required to be able to make students be ready to enter the industry. However, the ability of vocational teachers to replace industry 4.0 is not optimal yet. One of the reason is unavailability of learning media to support IoT-based learning. We use an IoT training kit to make teachers easier to understand the Internet of Things. This trainer kit is equipped with an Arduino, some input devices and communication devices. These features are expected to improve teacher understanding of IoT, making it easier to implement it in the teaching-learning process with their students. The methodology used in this journal is quantitative research, with experimental research designs. The type of experiment used is the type of pre-experimental design, in the form of one group pre-test-post-test. The results of this training can improve the learning outcomes from the cognitive realm is 31.45%.

Develop This -Education in the Age of the Internet of Things

Proceedings of the EADiM Academic Network Conference 2012. The Social University: Towards a Higher Education with Students as Producers. 22-24 November 2012, University of Graz, Graz, Austria., 2012

Introduction Developments in the area of Media Technology proceed very fast, and perhaps, revolutionary; where the day before yesterday the internet ruled, yesterday the web arrived, this morning it was the web 2.0 and after lunch, we enter the Internet of Things. The main implication for ICT curricula, such as Media Technology, is that factual knowledge, book knowledge and the know-how to use particular programming languages and tools are gradually becoming less important whereas the ability to keep track of developments in the research area (and not just 'on the market'), the ability to do research, how to develop conceptual solutions and how to translate concepts into software are becoming more and more important.

Improving the Quality of "The Internet of Things" Instruction in Technology Management, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE), 2020

Many universities require end of course evaluations for all courses taught as tool for academic accreditation purposes. The reality is that often many academic departments either do not do anything or have no idea what to do when evaluations continue to be poor. As a result, students have fought back against this process to create their own on-line rating program, Rate My Professor.com, which allows students to give other students insights into who is a quality professor and who is not. This paper explores this use of mock teaching simulations, which are also called Micro-teaching approaches, as a quality management tool to improve the way students are taught in Technology Management, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science degree and certificate programs.