Paper Info
Title
An Approach to Advance STEM Education Practices Based on IoT Technologies and the CoPs Paradigm.
Abstract
Internet of Things and other state-of-the-art technologies like mobile and ubiquitous computing present ample opportunities for developing novel solutions almost in every domain of modern life. The research work presented here aims to leverage on the potential of such technologies in the direction of enhancing learning practices in secondary level education and promoting positive attitudes towards the corresponding scientific and engineering disciplines. The originality of the proposed approach lies on the provision of an educational platform, framed by contemporary pedagogical principles, and with an aim to stimulate collaboration between the relevant stakeholders in the form of operational communities of practice. Such communities are brought together on the basis of participating in on line activities, problem solving, exchanging reflections and experiences in the context of educational scenarios that incorporate modern technologies. The platform development is discussed in terms of the underlined conceptual models, the defined stakeholders' requirements, the online services developed, the software tools integrated and the data management supported. An example educational scenario, the corresponding IoT application developed and preliminary evaluation results of this approach are also reported.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-030-21151-6_7
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet of Things,Ubiquitous computing,Communities of practice,UMI technologies,STEM education
Leverage (finance),Conceptual model,Computer science,Internet of Things,Knowledge management,Originality,Software,Ubiquitous computing,Data management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
1022
1865-0929
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christos Goumopoulos110418.60
Athanasios Iossifides200.34
Olga Fragou321.54
Ioannis D. Zaharakis444.63
Achilles Kameas535550.94