  IoT is a fundamental enabling technology for creating smart spaces, which can
assist the effective face-to-face and online education systems. The transition
to smart education (integrating IoT and AI into the education system) is
appealing, which has a concrete impact on learners' engagement, motivation,
attendance, and deep learning. Traditional education faces many challenges,
including administration, pedagogy, assessment, and classroom supervision.
Recent developments in ICT (e.g., IoT, AI and 5G, etc.) have yielded lots of
smart solutions for various aspects of life; however, smart solutions are not
well integrated into the education system. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic
situation had further emphasized the adoption of new smart solutions in
education. This study reviews the related studies and addresses the (i)
problems in the traditional education system with possible solutions, (ii) the
transition towards smart education, and (iii) research challenges in the
transition to smart education (i.e, computational and social resistance).
Considering these studies, smart solutions (e.g., smart pedagogy, smart
assessment, smart classroom, smart administration, etc.) are introduced to the
problems of the traditional system. This exploratory study opens new trends for
scholars and the market to integrate ICT, IoT, and AI into smart education.
