This presentation was provided by consultant Bryan Alexander during a NISO webinar on the Internet of Things, held on October 19, 2016.

1. Education in the
Internet of
Everything
NISO
-
October 2016

3. ⦿Monthly
environmental
scan report
⦿Trends
identified,
tested, projected
Based on ongoing research

4. Category 2: technology
3d printing continues to innovate and grow - digitization
shifts from physical media to streaming - device
ecosystem keeps growing - social media - open source -
shopping continues to migrate online - copyright battles
continue - automation’s promise - augmented reality’s
steady march; Ebooks; digital security threats expanding;
the limits of the Web; cloud computing; a shift in Moore’s
Law? crowdfunding growing; onshoring hardware
production; Office versus Web office; digital video rising;
new interfaces; fragmented internet; Internet of
things; new forms of creativity.

5. Future Trends Forum exploration

6. June 2016:
Robbie K.
Melton
Associate Vice
Chancellor of
Mobilizing
Emerging
Technology,
Tennessee Board
of Regents
http://emergingtech.tbr.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
cFIYiQAGT5g

7. September 2016:
Perry Samson
Professor at the
University of
Michigan, on his
student data
projects
http://samson.engin.umich.edu/
https://www.wunderground.com/

8. “The Internet of Things or IoT
will not be gently knocking at
higher education's door, it will
be banging on our doors with
an army of devices in tow, and
sooner than many of us
anticipate.”
-Robbie K. Melton

9. Networked hardware heads
towards the invisible

10. Transforming learning spaces
http://www.iclevedon.co.uk/ibeacons-launch-at-clevedon-school/

11. Transforming learning spaces
• Can we use the IoT to colocate
learning tools and materials with
students?
• Can the IoT enhance student life?
• Ex: mandatory fitness trackers

12. Transforming learning spaces
• IT departments will face supporting
more technology strata in a more
complex ecosystem: sensors,
embedded chips, and new devices.
• Standards, storage, privacy, and other
policy issues will ramify.

13. New forms of teaching and
learning
Information gathering
• preexisting forms amplified
• much easier to conduct (for
students)

14. New forms of teaching and
learning
• students explore an environment (built or
natural) by using embedded sensors, QR
codes, and live datastreams from items
and locations
• instructors can build treasure hunts
through campuses, nature preserves,
museums, or cities.
• transmedia gaming.

15. New forms of teaching and
learning
• Textbook alert instructor
when students are stuck on
words, providing tutorials
and assistance?

16. New forms of teaching and
learning
• IoT as curriculum in CS,
robotics, media studies, art
production…

17. New forms of teaching and
learning
Tracking students for data analysis, personalized learning

18. New forms of research
Like teaching, but at a higher
level.
•Researchers can gather and
process data using networked
swarms of devices
•Medical schools and clinics

19. New forms of research
academics studying and
developing the IoT in
computer science and other
disciplines.

20. An environmental transformation
People will increasingly come to
campus with experiences of a truly
interactive, data-rich world. They will
expect a growing proportion of objects
to be at least addressable, if not
communicative. This population will
become students, instructors, and
support staff.

21. An environmental transformation
They will have a different sense of
the boundaries between physical
and digital than we now have in
2014. Will this transformed
community alter a school’s
educational mission or operations?
https://medium.com/whatsnext/wednesday-aug-20-
2064-c24af88637f4#.7meoicwnj

22. Transforming learning spaces
We’ve already adjusted campus spaces by
adding wireless coverage, enabling users and
visitors to connect from nearly everywhere.
•What happens when benches are chipped,
skateboards sport sensors, books carry RFID,
and all sorts of new, mobile devices dot the
quad?
•Alternative networks?

23. Internet of Everything
rethink:
• privacy
• data ownership and
control
• safety tradeoffs
• public and private
• Brin, T Society

24. Issues remaining
Accessibility (disability)
“ (excluded, underserved
populations)

25. Issues remaining
Organizational
• Support staff training and retraining
• Instructors need new skills
• Rethinking community relations
• Futures orientation needed

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