ABSTRACT VIEW
INTERNET OF THINGS AS A PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATING STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
J. Pillár
Catholic University (SLOVAKIA)
The preparation of university students for employment in the labor market is currently taking on new dimensions. Previous preparation was mostly focused on acquiring a certain amount of knowledge, which was often quite large. As a result, the student was overwhelmed by it and used only a minimal part of it in practice. His skills were also minimal or non-existent.

Nowadays, it is quite natural that during the course of studies, a student does not know what his or her application will be after graduation. Some professions disappear and some arise again. The requirements for school graduates often change and are unpredictable. Today, it is also common for us to change our jobs, professions, companies, or places of work several times in our lives. From this point of view, university preparation narrowly focused on one application is already outdated. Instead of a large amount of knowledge, it is more important to teach students only the necessary basics and focus more on their use, expansion, creativity, critical thinking, independent systematic work, or work in a team.

In this article, we describe in detail our experiences with the introduction of the Internet of Things into teaching and its integration with other taught subjects. We present specific new subjects introduced, their theoretically and practically focused content, and we also describe some of the resources used. Since we have been implementing such comprehensively innovated teaching at our university for the third year, we also bring our experiences and recommendations aimed at increasing the attractiveness of the study and significantly improving the employability of our graduates in practice.

Keywords: Internet of things, iot, education, curriculum, attractiveness, ESP32, Raspberry Pi.

Event: EDULEARN25
Track: Quality & Impact of Education
Session: Experiences and Challenges in Curriculum Design
Session type: VIRTUAL