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Digital Smart Citizenship Competence Development with a Cyber-Physical Learning Approach Supported by Internet of Things Technologies

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The concept of Smart Cities is an emerging social and technology innovation, attracting large public and private investments at a global scale, arguing for the effective exploitation of digital technologies to drive quality of living and sustainable growth. However, these investments mainly focus in smart technical infrastructure, and they have yet to be systematically complemented with efforts to prepare the human capital of future smart cities in terms of core competences anticipated for exploiting their potential. In this context, this chapter introduces “cyber-physical learning” as a generic overarching model to cultivate Digital Smart Citizenship competence. The proposed approach exploits the potential of Internet of Things technologies to create authentic blended and augmented learning experiences. Proof-of-concept case studies of the proposed cyber-physical learning approach, to develop smart household energy management competences, are presented and discussed as a field of application. Finally, the findings of a survey with university students for eliciting their attitudes to engage with cyber-physical learning environments for enhancing their digital smart citizenship competences are reported.

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Acknowledgments

The first author’s contribution in this work has been partially funded by Västra Götaland Region, as part of the research project on smart grid Kraftsamling Smarta Nät 2015–2016 (dnr MN 39-2015), and partially supported by SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut AB as well as ELIQ AB (energy management company). The second and third authors’ contribution in this work has been partially funded by the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, under the Matching Funds 2014–2016 for the EU project “Inspiring Science: Large Scale Experimentation Scenarios to Mainstream eLearning in Science, Mathematics and Technology in Primary and Secondary Schools” (Project Number: 325123). Finally, the third author’s contribution in this work is part of Curtin’s contribution to the “STORIES—Stories of Tomorrow: Students Visions on the Future of Space Exploration” under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program, H2020-ICT-22-2016–2017 “Information and Communication Technologies: Technologies for Learning and Skills” (Project Number: 731872). This document reflects the views only of the authors and it does not represent the opinion of the Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut AB, ELIQ AB, Greek General Research Secretariat, the European Commission, or Curtin University. The Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut AB, ELIQ AB, Greek General Research Secretariat, the European Commission, and Curtin University cannot be held responsible for any use that might be made of its content.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, School of Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Yacine Atif

  2. Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Stylianos Sergis & Demetrios Sampson

  3. School of Education, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

    Demetrios Sampson

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  3. Department of Learning Technologies, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

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Atif, Y., Sergis, S., Sampson, D. (2018). Digital Smart Citizenship Competence Development with a Cyber-Physical Learning Approach Supported by Internet of Things Technologies. In: Sampson, D., Ifenthaler, D., Spector, J., Isaías, P. (eds) Digital Technologies: Sustainable Innovations for Improving Teaching and Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73417-0_16

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