Towards Next Generation Teaching, Learning, and Context-Aware Applications for Higher Education: A Review on Blockchain, IoT, Fog and Edge Computing Enabled Smart Campuses and Universities

Fernández‐Caramés, Tiago M.; Fraga‐Lamas, Paula

doi:10.3390/app9214479

Cited by 116 publications

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“…Cloud computing, among other technologies, introduces a significant change in the way Information Technology (IT) services are consumed and managed. This evolution also affects the way in which educative institutions manage IT infrastructures to become smart campuses and universities [32].…”

Section: Virtualization Of Remote Laboratoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Students’ Acceptance and Tracking of a New Container-Based Virtual Laboratory

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Presently, the ever-increasing use of new technologies helps people to acquire additional skills for developing an applied critical thinking in many contexts of our society. When it comes to education, and more particularly in any Engineering subject, practical learning scenarios are key to achieve a set of competencies and applied skills. In our particular case, the cybersecurity topic with a distance education methodology is considered and a new remote virtual laboratory based on containers will be presented and evaluated in this work. The laboratory is based on the Linux Docker virtualization technology, which allows us to create consistent realistic scenarios with lower configuration requirements for the students. The laboratory is comparatively evaluated with our previous environment, LoT@UNED, from both the points of view of the students’ acceptance with a set of UTAUT models, and their behavior regarding evaluation items, time distribution, and content resources. All data was obtained from students’ surveys and platform registers. The main conclusion of this work is that the proposed laboratory obtains a very high acceptance from the students, in terms of several different indicators (perceived usefulness, estimated effort, social influence, attitude, ease of access, and intention of use). Neither the use of the virtual platform nor the distance methodology employed affect the intention to use the technology proposed in this work.

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Section: Virtualization Of Remote Laboratoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Students’ Acceptance and Tracking of a New Container-Based Virtual Laboratory

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“…Additionally, different from related efforts, we experiment with opening the infrastructure and data for the educational purposes, and discuss what was achieved from this experience. Finally, despite the fact that the topic of smart campuses emerges, we find that there is a lack of sharing the lessons and challenges, especially in shared multipurpose environments [53]. Therefore, together with very few related works, e.g., [8], this article contributes to the effort in bringing in critical issues to be considered when designing and implementing smart campus solutions.…”

Section: Smart Campusesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…A number of initiatives exist towards implementing smart campuses [53]. Experiences are shared in integrating and analysis of available data, like Lancaster University integrates data from existing energy and building management systems for analysis and optimization [8].…”

Section: Smart Campusesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Internet of Things for Smart Spaces: A University Campus Case Study

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Tamminen

Yasmin

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Sensors

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Advances in technology and data analysis provide rich opportunities for developing intelligent environments assisting their inhabitants, so-called smart environments or smart spaces. Enhanced with technology, sensors, user interfaces, and various applications, such smart spaces are capable of recognizing users and situations they are in, react accordingly, e.g., by providing certain services or changes to the environment itself. Therefore, smart space solutions are gradually coming to different application domains, each with corresponding specific characteristics. In this article, we discuss our experiences and explore the challenges of a long-term real-world Internet of Things (IoT) deployment at a University campus. We demonstrate the technical implementation and data quality issues. We conduct several studies, from data analysis to interaction with space, utilizing the developed infrastructure, and we also share our actions to open the data for education purposes and discuss their outcomes. With this article, we aim to share our experience and provide real-world lessons learned when building an open, multipurpose, publicly used smart space at a University campus.

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“…The authors of [32] have thoroughly reviewed the utilization of emerging technologies like blockchain, IoT, and fog and edge computing for improving education. Examples of applications include record verification [33], the management of digital copyright information [34], or the design and evaluation of novel learning approaches [35][36][37].…”

Section: Sdg 4: Quality Educationmentioning

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Leveraging Blockchain for Sustainability and Open Innovation: A Cyber-Resilient Approach toward EU Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goals

Fraga‐Lamas¹,

Fernández‐Caramés²

2020

Computer Security Threats

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In 2015, the United Nations (UN) member states identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be fulfilled by 2030. SDGs are an urgent global call for action to provide a blueprint for shared prosperity in a sustainable world. At a European level, in December 2019, the European Green Deal was presented, a roadmap to implement the UN 2030 agenda with a commitment to a growth strategy that will turn environmental challenges into opportunities across all policy areas. To achieve these SDGs, blockchain is one of the key enabling technologies that can help to create sustainable and secure solutions, since it is able to deliver accountability, transparency, traceability, and cyber-resilience, as well as to provide a higher operational efficiency in global partnerships. This chapter overviews the potential of blockchain to face sustainability challenges by describing several relevant applications. Finally, different open challenges and recommendations are enumerated with the aim of guiding all the stakeholders committed to the development of cyber-resilient and high-impact sustainable solutions.

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Towards Next Generation Teaching, Learning, and Context-Aware Applications for Higher Education: A Review on Blockchain, IoT, Fog and Edge Computing Enabled Smart Campuses and Universities

Cited by 116 publications

References 138 publications

Students’ Acceptance and Tracking of a New Container-Based Virtual Laboratory

Students’ Acceptance and Tracking of a New Container-Based Virtual Laboratory

Internet of Things for Smart Spaces: A University Campus Case Study

Leveraging Blockchain for Sustainability and Open Innovation: A Cyber-Resilient Approach toward EU Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goals

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