Abstract—Internet of things (IoT) is a relatively an emergent
technology that facilitate interaction between the real and
virtual objects. As it develops and matures, it grows in scale and
dimension influences the context of our life such as the
education, in particular higher education; this article focuses on
a research associated with the predictable impact of IoT in the
superior education. A theoretical analysis along with a
statistical study is explored in this paper. The theoretical and
statistical results showed non-ignorable influence of the IoT in
the education ecosystem in terms of the learning and managing
factors. In some cases, such as the hyper- connectivity,
collaboration and research opportunities the effect is significant.
Emergent technologies such as the IoT at present are rapidly
developing in the digital world and transforming traditional
education system into a scalable, adaptable with rapid dynamic
changes, flexible and more efficient E-learning with a topology
where the huge number of physical and virtual interacting
objects are involved in the process of learning. It is projected
the IoT will make possible to develop the intelligent E-learning
systems which can predict and determine the particular
educational needs of the students, based on the study of data
obtained from the connected objected.
Index Terms—Internet of things (IoT), higher education,
hyper-connectivity, e-learning, physical objects, virtual
environment.
The authors are with National University of Costa Rica, Informatics
School, Heredia (e-mail: majid.bayani@ieee.org,
enrique.vilchez.quesada@una.cr).
Cite: Majid Bayani Abbasy and Enrique Vílchez Quesada, "Predictable Influence of IoT (Internet of Things) in the Higher Education," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 914-920, 2017.