Reference Curriculum for IoT Applied to Anything: A Proposal
Maisson Lichtenecker, Maria Cristina Carpes Marchesan, Andréia dos Santos Sachete, Fábio Diniz Rossi · Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal · 2020
The focus of this research work is on a reference curriculum that can be used as a basis for undergraduate courses related to the Internet of Things (IoT), and that are applied to a specific area.Numerous studies show methodologies and models for updating curricula.However, such proposals are ossified, since, in the majority, they do not allow flexibility and nor attend to the local characteristics in terms of human resources and local productive arrangement.Our proposal presents a novel IoT curriculum and enable the inclusion of the area to be applied in an easy and significant way to the student, emphasizing interdisciplinarity.The proposed reference curriculum consists of disciplines divided into four major groups: specific group, common group, applied group, and grouping group.In this way, basic disciplines can be complemented with the application area through project disciplines and final works.Besides, disciplines common to all courses reinforce equally important transversal aspects.This proposal for a reference curriculum allows higher education institutions to adapt to a new technology that tends to become dominant in a flexible way, also allowing the provision of a course strongly linked to local or regional potentialities.