| Sumario: | With close to 20.4 billion devices connected to the Internet to be deployed by 2020, Internet of things (IoT) is already being leveraged in diverse sectors. Now, because of the ubiquitous nature of IoT devices, schools and academic institutions are looking to incorporate IoT in educational activities. With the increased use of IoT in the education domain, it is of utmost importance to study how this technology with its distinguished system functions such as sensing and decision making can support and challenge the pedagogical processes for all interrelated actors (faculty, students, and staff) as well as all involved assets (e.g., libraries, classrooms, and labs). Although there have been several contributions on the inclusion of IoT into the education domain, there is still a lack of consolidated and coherent views on this subject. Hence, we are motivated to close the gap of knowledge and embarked on mapping out the published studies available. This study presents the results of a systematic literature review focusing on the benefits and the challenges faced in education in integrating IoT into the curriculum and educational environments. Different mapping views of the extracted studies are provided as long as a summary of the already implemented tools and a list of gap research questions yet to be investigated. Lay Description: What is currently known about the subject matter? Despite the several studies available on the inclusion of IoT into the education domain, there is still a lack of consolidated and coherent views on this subject. What this paper adds? In this paper, we provide an overview result on the basis of a systematic literature review conducted to explore and categorize existing scenarios for deploying IoT in the education domain.On the basis of our findings from the systematic literature review, we provide the following: A comprehensive discussion on the benefits of incorporating IoT technologies in education. We structured our discussion around three dimensions related to education perception, learning principle, and learning mode.A comprehensive discussion on three relevant qualities that will challenge the deployment of IoT in education, namely, security/privacy, scalability, and humanization. What is the implication of this work? This work structures the scenarios available on IoT in education and provides a framework that can be used for further analysis/discussions by researchers and practitioners.This work provides necessary statistics on the IoT in education topic that can be used by researchers to construct a pragmatic research direction on this topic.
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