IoTeach: Prototyping and Evaluation of Learning Support System for IoT Programming by Integrating Real Devices and Sequential Contents

Abstract

In recent years, as the IoT has become popular, there are more requirements for sharing operation/mechanisms of IoT devices, such as Arduino and M5Stack. In addition, because of the corona disaster, many educational institutions adopted online lectures, such as on-demand tutorial videos and live lectures using video conference systems. For IoT programming education, these methods have problems such as lack of linkage with real-world devices and source codes. In this study, we propose a system called “IoTeach”, which supports learning of IoT programming by attaching a script language on sequential contents such as videos and slides shared on the Web. Thus, the IoTeach can link videos and slides with real-world IoT devices and source code. In this paper, we describe the concept and implementation of the system. We also perform a basic evaluation and discuss challenges and prospects.