The Internet of Education Things (IoET): A Social Sciences Approach for Students Academic Purposes

This article aims to discuss the contribution of the usage of the internet in the
learning process for academic purposes in the Social Sciences at the Department of
Anthropology, Universitas Negeri Medan. Data obtained through a questionnaire on 6 topics
and 17 items of internet usage in semesters 6, 7 and 8 namely 119 students. Data were
analyzed with descriptive statistics and product-moment correlations. Theoretical references
used are the Internet of Education Things, an explanation of the Internet of Things from an
educational perspective. The study concludes that there is a significant relationship between
IoET and student academic purposes. Every student utilizes Wireless Fidelity to access
references, teaching materials, student assignments, and thesis writing. Email and internet
searches are the most common internet uses. The internet creates a more personal learning
experience but the tendency is used for the benefit of other internet activities rather than
academic purposes.