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A Survey of Internet of Things (IoT) in Education: Opportunities and Challenges

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Internet of Things (IoT) is the most challenging platform that designates the correlation of physical objects in the near future. A wide spectrum of review studies has been conducted to analyze and synthesize the use of IoT and its applications in various domains. Nonetheless, research neglects providing a comprehensive review study regarding the application of IoT in education. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to highlight the recent progress of employing IoT applications in education and provide various opportunities and challenges for future trials. More specifically, this review study summarizes the prospects of adopting IoT in education, medical education and training, vocational education and training, Green IoT in education, and wearable technologies in education. It is concluded that the adoption of IoT and its applications in developing countries is still in its early stages and further research is highly encouraged.

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    Mostafa Al-Emran

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Al-Emran, M., Malik, S.I., Al-Kabi, M.N. (2020). A Survey of Internet of Things (IoT) in Education: Opportunities and Challenges. In: Hassanien, A., Bhatnagar, R., Khalifa, N., Taha, M. (eds) Toward Social Internet of Things (SIoT): Enabling Technologies, Architectures and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 846. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24513-9_12

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