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Rethinking IoT Education: Is the Concept Truly Grasped?

Authors Tomáš Kormaník , Jaroslav Porubän

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  • Applied computing → Interactive learning environments
  • Human-centered computing → Ubiquitous computing
  • General and reference → Surveys and overviews
  • Computer systems organization → Sensor networks
Keywords
  • Internet of Things
  • Informatics Education
  • Higher Education
  • Computer Science Education

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the topic of the Internet of Things (abbr. IoT) in the context of higher education and academic understanding of it. When briefly looking at the IoT course curriculum at our department, we suspected that the curriculum contents are not adhering to the definition of IoT. The goal of our work was to pinpoint the correct definition of IoT, which can be used to bring contents of the IoT courses as close to the truth as possible. Secondarily, we reviewed available articles and reviews of formerly and currently taught IoT or related courses and evaluated whether their approach and contents were correct when considering the definition of IoT. We summarise the issues present in existing works and identify which specific parts are problematic, according to our assessment. Improving IoT courses is crucial since it shapes a student’s understanding of the IoT paradigm and allows them to use it or even develop it in the future. Provisioning our students with a needed set of skills will make them more suitable for research, development, and industry-related futures.

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Tomáš Kormaník and Jaroslav Porubän. Rethinking IoT Education: Is the Concept Truly Grasped?. In 6th International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 133, pp. 11:1-11:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2025.11

Author Details

Tomáš Kormaník
  • Department of Computers and Informatics, FEI TU of Košice, Slovakia
Jaroslav Porubän
  • Department of Computers and Informatics, FEI TU of Košice, Slovakia

Funding

This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the Contract no. APVV-23-0408.

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