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IoT Teaching with Pocket Labs

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Teaching and Learning in a Digital World (ICL 2017)

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The IoT and Pocket Labs are popular buzzwords today with the IoT being much better known in wider circles, while the Pocket Labs is a relatively new concept offering new teaching opportunities which are to be further explored and analyzed. Although the IoT & Pocket Labs are not necessarily interconnected or mutually conditioned, this paper discusses such a real case of teaching practice, where the Pocket Labs are a natural solution for teaching of IoT. The paper deals with one semester teaching experience of IoT as a university course. Obtained results and experience may be quite general except for university students profile defined with their previous education and knowledge. Besides the main goal of the course which is an introduction to IoT, some other aims were exploring the social impact of IoT and emphasizing the importance of new original ideas and views being as important as mastering the IoT technologies.

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Acknowledgements

Work on this paper was partly funded by the SCOPES project IZ74Z0_160454/1 “Enabling Web-based Remote Laboratory Community and Infrastructure” of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Devoted to my dear IT bachelor students of the 4th year during 2016/2017 IoT course.

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    Vladimir Miodrag Cvjetkovic

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Cvjetkovic, V.M. (2018). IoT Teaching with Pocket Labs. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Simonics, I. (eds) Teaching and Learning in a Digital World. ICL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 716. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73204-6_66

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