Fostering Secondary Students STEM Career Awareness through IoT HandsOn Educational Activities: Experiences and Lessons Learned This article reports on a research case study about raising the motivation of young boys and girls (1416 years old) toward science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to increase their prospects of choosing a relevant career. Using the Internet of Things (IoT) at the core of a designbased methodology, multiple implementations of IoToriented educational scenarios (ESs) were realized in different educational contexts. More than 150 secondary students and nine teachers, in seven different settings, were involved in an integrated educational framework with handson activities and teamwork. Using a concrete evaluation methodology exploiting both quantitative and qualitative data collected before, during, and after the interventions, we analyze the studentsu0027 and teachersu0027 experience to understand critical parameters and provide directions for successful ESs. Our findings show that the IoTbased ES realizations were successful overall and enhanced STEM career awareness and skills, with boys showing greater appreciation than girls. Different ES timeframes resulted in different conclusions, while proper organization and preparation in all aspects involved in the realization are critical.

Towards Designing Smart Learning Environments with IoT Internet of Things is a rapidly growing network of a variety of different connected objects. Now, because of their ubiquitous nature, educational institutions are looking to incorporate IoTs technologies in teaching and learning activities. This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on the benefits and challenges of incorporating IoTs in education. More precisely, it provides (i) a summary that reports on results of a systematic literature review we conducted on IoT in education along with a framework for describing and classifying scenarios that involve IoTs for education, (ii) a demonstration of a tool we developed to provide an adaptive learning experience in response to a remote learnerxe2x80x99s emotions, and (iii) a discussion on three domainrelated quality requirements to consider when designing IoTs applications for education; namely, security, scalability and humanization.