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Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Internet of Things for Educators and Learners - Dina Kurzweil and Sean Baker, EDUCAUSE Review
Given the phenomenal growth of connected devices in the Internet of Things, the issue of how higher education supports educators with the IoT in learning environments becomes a key consideration in teaching and learning. An educational environment explicitly focused on supporting learning with the IoT could be extremely beneficial; we call it the Educators' and Learners' Internet of Things, or ELIoT. What we have to decide is whether we will prepare, through the design of distributed, adaptive systems and methodologies, to give the ELIoT a warm welcome in higher education while managing the accompanying serious considerations.
http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/8/the-internet-of-things-for-educators-and-learners