IoT in the Education System
Nowadays, technology is everywhere, our daily use items are becoming connected devices, & smart phones are becoming a complete remote control to life, that’s why our life is get so easy. “IoT” is most contributing part in digital life. Today, Internet of things is transforming various industries and the field of education is no exception to IoT’s influence. Let’s some talk about how ‘IoT‘ take part in Education System.
Education zone has been already disrupted by the internet with advent of online distant learning. While the internet initiated and increased the traditional mortal-to-mortal learning experience, ‘Iot’ aims to present the machines and objects into the mix. ‘IoT‘ enabled connectivity continues to take place of pen-paper and chalkboards as instructional approaches and expand the learning opportunities.
IOT in Academy:
Iot in academy, that means a better connected & synergetic future for education. By Iot device instructor/teacher can measure student learning progress in real-time and student/learner access to everything from learning substance to communicate channels. IoT also provide valuable insight, democratizes that information through low-cost, low-power small devices, which still offer high performance. This kind of technology improves the quality of education, professional development, facility management.
Analysis
According to a research study, the global market size is expected to grow “from $4.8 billion to $11.3 billion by 2023” on CAGR of 18.8%.
Another research paper “The effect of the IoT on education business model” by IEEE, IoT will allow us to gather data and manage four key areas: “energy management and real time ecosystem monitoring, monitoring student’s healthcare, classroom access control and improving teaching and learning.”
How IoT can improve education?
There are some improvements of many immediate problems and gaps in the education by IoT, which problems or gaps are:
- Instructors (Teachers): More instructors hiring may increase access to education, but it will decrease in quality and not scalable as academy districts have limited access to funding and administrative personnel.
- Books: Buying new books is costly. On other side, buying used books may be cheaper, that means providing greater access to educational material. But, it also limits learning to older academic modules and old information, which may decrease educational quality.
- Personalized Learning: A big difficulty with the typical education system is the absence of flexibility in the course work. The course shouldn’t be the same for each and every student. The interaction between students in classroom space is collective and doesn’t take into account the individual pace and needs of the student.
- Standardize: There is a constant change in educational policy at the government. This policy change can rapidly change lives for the better. However, achieving greater funding and educational standardize proves time-intensive and difficult sue to a lack of nonpartisanship. The goals of this kind of initiatives are generally increase the quality of and access to education, but when policy changes are delayed at that time we need provisional solution.
Therefore, it makes sense to use the technological advancements to make learning mesmeric, effective, and fun for the students. There are some phases of how IoT solves the above problems:
- Data from other facilities: IoT provides instructor and the management with prodigious resource of student data at their fingertips.
- Personalized learning: With IoT every single student can be evaluated and monitored on an individual basis. Weak student may be granted a modified course that caters to him individually to bring him up to speed. The aggregate data can guide the instructor to modify the course on the depending on the collective class needs.
- Mortal to machine interaction: Present generation are migrating from textbook to digital devices. Digital books are new medium of learning. This makes classrooms and education sector prepared for IoT transformation. With mortal to machine interaction, students can learn at their own comfort zone. Pens, tablets and smart board can enhance the distribution of learning material from instructor to student and student to instructor.
- Textbook enhancement: Nowadays, all textbooks have QR code that can be scanned as in for getting the textbook on their devices. Most importantly in e-books you don’t need to spend too much time to find something specific, you can simply do that by searching.
- Security: There are so many students at academy and monitoring about them and their activities is so difficult task. So for that, several feet away object can be read by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips which uses radio waves to capture the data which is stored as a tag attached to an object and there is no need to object be within direct line-of-sight of the data collector. In bus system GPS can track the route and the bus movement.
IoT based Smart Environment:
There are tremendous opportunities to integrate IoT solution into education environments.
- IoT Based Smart Campus: A Smart Campus can be a collection of multiple smart things in a single system.
- IoT-based Smart Classroom: Smart classroom means a thoughtful environment equipped by advanced learning aids on based on latest technology. Smart object makes class management ease and comfort.
- Smart Classroom Attendance System: In this system, professor can implement automated attendance tracking. SCRCS (smart classroom roll caller system) use Iot architecture to collect or record student attendance after every period accurately and timely. RFID tags are attached to student’s ID; SCRCS can be installed in every classroom and read students’ ID cards collectively. One more study proposed a web based attendance system using NFC technology in android smart-phones. Student taps the metric card towards the NFC android smart-phone, and attendance will be saved on server automatically.
- Real-Time Feedback: Students’ feedback is most important thing for improving lecture quality. A study proposes a creative environment that can monitor and observe students’ reaction to lecture using sensing and monitoring technology. It helps to improve the lecture quality.
- Foreign Language Instruction: To determine whether students have made the correct statements or selections in foreign language simulation environment by connected devices, instructors are able to provide real-time feedback to student and automatically monitor student progress.
- Learning on Task-Based: Learning on task based instruction, students learn by doing and instructors assist them when needed. IoT system provides feedback, assistance, and classroom-level monitoring automatically. By signaling instructor, difficulty can be increased when he needed; so, no student falls behind nor gets ahead.
- Disability Accommodation: Students who identify as disabled, IoT may prove helpful for them. Deaf students may utilize a system of connected gloves and tablet to translate from sign languages to verbal speech, and converting sound into written language. By using IoT devices and systems can be provide educational assistance to disabled learners.
Future of the Internet of Things (IoT) in education system
The future of Internet of Things in education looks bright because of the immense potential it has. However, it will take time. The most needed factor in this is making the necessary technologies both accessible and easy to use. So now there is a necessary to be a change in the mindset of the educators, parents and students, supported by the change in educational policies.
The baby steps towards integrating IoT in education, especially academic zone, have already started and the response of all the parties involved is very positive.
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