Educating innovators of future Internet of Things

Abstract

Abstract-The concept of "Internet-of-Things" will undoubtedly emerge as the technology of the future. Educating specialists ready to bring the concept to the reality remains challenging in the scope of traditional university courses. The main challenge is how to enable students to think outside the boundaries of the particular discipline and therefore to enable the innovative thinking. This article describes an experiment with teaching Internetof-Things as a common red thread across three courses which ran in parallel during fall semester 2012 at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. We discuss the teaching methodology, the technology blocks which laid the ground for our teaching philosophy as well as the experiences and lessons learned.

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