Paper Title
Use of a Blended Learning Approach for an Internet of Things Course
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) is a truly auspicious and challenging field of study and business. The advance in
communication technology and the promising 5G development aiming at lower battery consumption and lower frequencies
will have high impact on spreading IoT services which enhances mobility and portability in different fields like e-health ebanking,
entertainment and others.The universities, proved to be aware of the importance of this emerging topic, are
introducing an IoT course in their programs. Blended learning is suitable to use in an IoT course since the student has to
build his knowledge from different fields of studies and because of the discrepancies that exist among students. Some
learners fromtechnical background will not put effort on connecting hardware but rather in learning programming while
other learners fromprogramming background will need more assistance in setting up the infrastructure. So it is a course with
different paces and speeds. The unified class lecture will tackle the common points between learners and the online part will
be at the pace of each learner.
Keywords - Internet of Things, Blended Learning, Course Design, Innovation.