Internet of Things Network Infrastructure for The Educational Purpose

Tokarz, Krzysztof; Czekalski, Piotr; Drabik, Gabriel; Paduch, Jarosław; Distefano, Salvatore; Pietro, Riccardo Di; Merlino, Giovanni; Scaffidi, Carlo; Sell, Raivo; Kuaban, Godlove Suila

doi:10.1109/fie44824.2020.9274040

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“…The educational section of our questionnaire including a set of 7 questions (Q11-Q17) was entirely focused on the teachers' perception of the sudden shift to exclusively online, virtual teaching forced by the pandemic. Despite the breakthroughs in IoT (Internet of Things) that marked the year 2020, including currently in European universities and in the USA [47], the implementation of most systems based on virtual reality technologies still faces technological, learning, familiarization, funding and other challenges. The technological challenges to which we refer in Q11, encountered by some of the university teachers in our study do not, therefore, reveal an unexpected finding.…”

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Perceptions and Expectations of Academic Staff in Bucharest towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Dental Education

Iosif

Țâncu

Didilescu

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Dental education was severely challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. The evaluation of the viewpoint of the dental teachers of the Faculty of Dentistry at “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, on these exceptional circumstances’ consequences was the objective of this paper. A cross-sectional study was conducted in April 2022, on the academic staff who reported their perceptions of the emotional and educational impact of the pandemic by completing a Google Forms questionnaire. Although a significant emotional impact of the pandemic was reported by over a third of the participants (31.2%), most of them being teachers of fifth-year dental students (p = 0.019), the perceived stress had an impact on the teaching performance in few of them (14%), the quality of sleep remaining unaffected in most of them (53.7%), whereas the level of anxiety was low (57%). An educational impact regarding the techno difficulties during the online transition was mentioned by few respondents (16.1%), with male teaching staff facing the fewest problems (p = 0.024), as well as low levels of difficulties in transmitting academic information (11.9), with men also being the most unaffected (p = 0.006). More than half of the participants (59.1%) rather see digital and/or virtual education during the pandemic as having adverse effects on the educational system, the most sceptical being teachers of the fifth (p = 0.001) and sixth years (p = 0.001). The COVID-19 pandemic affected the academic staff of the Faculty of Dentistry at “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, not only at a personal level but also at a professional, pedagogical one, due to the introduction of the online teaching system followed by the hybrid one. Age group, gender, and teaching year differentiated the degree of emotional and educational impairment.

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Perceptions and Expectations of Academic Staff in Bucharest towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Dental Education

Iosif

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Didilescu

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“…In [6] and [7] remote labs are presented using role access control and MySQL for the persistence layer. In [7] and [8], the use of Arduinos is made for the control and monitoring of remote laboratories and a web server with HTML and JavaScript supported by asynchronous communication through AJAX; while in [9] the created platform uses MQTT for communication between the components and allows remote reservation of a device by schedule, all managed from the cloud, using Arduinos together with Raspberry PI for remote control.…”

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Cloud-based IoT solution to control and monitor a psychrometric laboratory in a Peruvian University

Lucho,

Garcia,

Velarde

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 21th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology (LACCEI 2023): “Leaders

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During the years of the COVID-19 pandemic, university education had to adapt to a virtual context and the laboratories, which made use of specialized equipment, had to stop and move to a simulated context, providing an experience for the student close to reality, but not complete. As the years progressed and the restrictions began to diminish, various alternatives were proposed to facilitate remote access by students to the laboratories through cameras, IoT solutions for the remote control and monitoring of specialized equipment through web environments. The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú has a psychrometric equipment for laboratories of undergraduate courses, which could only be used in person. In this article, an IoT solution deployed in the cloud is proposed, with AWS services, to remotely control and monitor all the data generated by the psychometric equipment. These data are obtained through sensors or cameras to be sent to the IoT platform in the cloud through MQTT, which will then allow users to see the result in real time using HTTPs and WebSocket. The deployed solution also allows managing user access by role, by date, assigning sensors to users in real time, saving a history of everything sensed, and exporting all the data generated during the laboratory session. The solution has also been used throughout a period of 12 months in which students have been able to interact with the platform, both in person and remotely.

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“…Mono-color LEDs (single or 7-segment models) have been used to prototype user interfaces that display the state of 3-way traffic signals, the energy consumption in a 3-phase electrical system, and realtime sensor data [33], [48], [79], [90]. • Web Dashboard Interfaces: Web-based dashboards are also commonly used in IoT curricula for real-time sensor data visualizations and associated analytics [31], [34], [46], [52], [91], [92]. A reason for their widespread use is the availability of open-source JavaScript and Python-based visualization libraries [93]- [95].…”

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Internet-of-Things Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment for STEM Education: A Review of Literature

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The exponentially growing Internet of Things (IoT) market presents compelling opportunities for innovators to develop and create meaningful applications affecting everyday life. This shifting IoT paradigm is placing new demands on educational institutions to train students with IoT-relevant skills. Numerous education researchers continue to document the implementation of IoT-based curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment techniques for STEM education. In this paper, we systematically reviewed this literature and identified 60 journal articles and conference papers that have reported implementing IoT curriculum and associated instructional approaches, educational technologies, and assessment strategies for K-12 and university students. The curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment strategies presented in these studies were analyzed in the context of the sensing, networking, services, and interface layers of the IoT technology paradigm. The review identifies best educational practices and synthesizes actionable strategies for educators to implement effective IoT learning experiences for students. These strategies leverage low-cost IoT hardware, open-source IoT software, active learning-based instructional approaches, and direct/indirect assessment methods. As IoT education becomes increasingly pervasive, the review and strategies provided in this paper may serve as a guide for future educational efforts.

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Internet of Things Network Infrastructure for The Educational Purpose

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Perceptions and Expectations of Academic Staff in Bucharest towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Dental Education

Perceptions and Expectations of Academic Staff in Bucharest towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Dental Education

Cloud-based IoT solution to control and monitor a psychrometric laboratory in a Peruvian University

Internet-of-Things Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment for STEM Education: A Review of Literature

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