STEM teaching for the Internet of Things maker course: a teaching model based on the iterative loop

Rongjun Chen; Yani Zheng; Xiansheng Xu; Huimin Zhao; Jinchang Ren; Hong Zhou Tan

doi:10.3390/su12145758

STEM teaching for the Internet of Things maker course: a teaching model based on the iterative loop

Rongjun Chen, Yani Zheng, Xiansheng Xu, Huimin Zhao^*, Jinchang Ren, Hong Zhou Tan

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As the key technology for 5G applications in the future, the Internet of Things (IoT) is developing rapidly, and the demand for the cultivation of engineering talents in the IoT is also expanding. The rise of maker education has brought new teaching inspiration for cultivating innovative technical talents in the IoT. In the IoT maker course, teaching problems include the lack of adequate teaching models, emphasis on products but less emphasis on theory, and letting students imitate practice. Focusing on these problems, this paper proposes a new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) teaching model called Propose, Guide, Design, Comment, Implement, Display and Evaluate (PGDCIDE) for the IoT maker course. The PGDCIDE teaching model is based on STEM teaching and Kolodner's design-based scientific inquiry learning cycle model, and realizes the combination of "theory, practice, and innovation. "Finally, this paper designs the IoT maker course to practice the PGDCIDE model. The practical results indicate that students significantly improved their emotional level, knowledge level, and innovation level after studying the course. Therefore, the PGDCIDE teaching model proposed in this paper can improve the effectiveness of the IoT maker course teaching and is conducive to the cultivation of students' sustainable ability in engineering education. It has reference significance for the application of maker courses in engineering education practice.

Original language	English
Article number	5758
Number of pages	20
Journal	Sustainability
Volume	12
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145758
Publication status	Published - 17 Jul 2020

Funding

This research was funded by the Innovation Team Project (Natural Science) of the Education Department of Guangdong Province (No.2017KCXTD021), the Engineering Construction Project of Teaching Quality of Guangdong Province-the characteristic specialty: Internet of Things Engineering (2018), the Construction Project of Quality Engineering of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (No.2017ZYZG05), the Research and Practice Project of Education and Teaching Reform in Higher Vocation of Guangdong Province (No. GDJG2019082), the Educational Science Project Foundation of Guangdong Province (No.2013JK341), the Project for Distinctive Innovation of Ordinary Universities of Guangdong Province (No.2018KTSCX120), the Ph. D. Start-up Fund of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No.2016A030310335), the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61672008), the Graduate Education Innovation Project of Guangdong Province (No.2020JGXM079), Guangdong Colleges and Universities Young Innovative Talents Projects (2018KQNCX138). The authors would like to appreciate the contributions from Digital Content Processing and Security Technology of Guangzhou Key Laboratory of School of Computer Science, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University.

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curriculum implementation
internet of things
maker course
STEM teaching

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