+44 3308180992Chalew Alehegn Tsegaye*, Eshetie Berhan and Birhanu Beshah
The Internet of Things (IoT) has a major potential and already started to improve the human life in all sectors including education sector. In education, the IoT technologies represent a great opportunity for schools and may be used in various ways: To collect and use data to enhance the learning experience, to support the meeting of the learning goals, to improve the overall school operations etc. Since IoT field is expected to grow significantly in the next years, it is a must to prepare young generations for these changes. This paper is aimed at describing adoption of Internet of Things IoT and its role in higher education and also identifies and hypothetically describes the benefits, challenges and educational policy related to the adoption of the IoT in higher education. In order to analyze the impact of the IoT adoption in the education environment, it propose an assessment model based on four hypotheses, the data which were collected from 125 students in the case higher education by the questionnaire survey method and structural equation modeling is used in the study to validate the suggested model as well as to determine how the adoption of the IoT relates to benefit, challenges, potential roles and education policies. For this quantitative approach was applied where outer loading, reliability was checked through Cronbach’s alpha and ensured the constancy of data and frequency of demographics were taken through descriptive analysis using SMART Pls3 software.
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