IoT in Education – The Trending New Revolution

• Prakash, Asst.Professor, SIMS

Education has become predominant in overcoming economic & personal grievances across the world. If a country gives importance for education, then they can excel across the globe. There are so many countries giving importance for education & they are succeeding. The development of Internet of Things (IoT) has made education more simple. Children & youth are mostly addicted to mobile phones, now they can learn education with the same mobile phone where they are losing their life.

How Education can be improved with IoT?

Today, it’s possible to attend a IIT guest lecture class from your living room thanks to Google meet / Zoom etc. With Youtube  anything can be learnt positively. MOOC courses like Swayam NPTEL, Coursera, & Udemy, users can take degrees online with resource persons from IITs, IIMs & famous business personalities or experts in particular subject domain. You can learn a lot through Byjus, Vedantu, Unacademy, Khan academy, toppr, meritnation & myCBSE guide etc for enriching students’ knowledge. In all of the above scenarios, IoT plays a significant role as everyone from teachers to students, parents, people working in industry are getting benefit thanks to IoT.

IoT is unavoidable in IT sector has become core & all MNCs are following IoT concept. In the same manner IoT has become inevitable in education sector too. All developed/developing institutions are implementing IoT to enhance the students’ knowledge & interest among the subject. As a result, student feels enthusiastic.

The evolution of internet playing an important role in classroom environment. Schools are allowed to take online class, encourages students to take online courses instead of submitting assignments, thereby students are showing more passion to read through IoT has become their favorite than their regular class. IoT can be well applied in Schools, Colleges, Universities, Self-learning for working / willing to work people & education in general.

Conclusion

It’s very easy to come to conclusion like, nowadays most of the people can live without food for one full day, but it’s almost impossible for the same most of the people can live without mobile/internet even for half a day. Many children & youth are having the habit of seeing their WhatsApp & Facebook immediately once they wake up at the morning. As a conclusion, it’s almost impossible to blame the children for addicted to mobile phones, instead we can insist them to learn through IoT with mobile phones so as the win-win situation can be attained. The future of education has to be IoT based for sure & undoubtedly.