Smart Cities Education: An Insight into Existing Drawbacks

Abstract Smart cities aim to increase citizens’ quality of life by employing technology. Education is one of the areas of focus in smart cities and in this context, smart education is a term used to refer to education provided by smart cities. As research in this area has expanded recently as shown by the number of literature reviews in a smart city context, a review could help summarize existing directions. As our understanding on negative consequences is limited, this research will address this knowledge gap by concentrating on challenges and difficulties when it comes to education in smart cities by providing a review. The articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science were review and qualitative analysis of the articles fitting our research criteria were identified. Three themes were identified: shortcomings on the existing educational initiatives to address the needs of smart cities, negative consequences of smart city education on other areas and problems that arise as a result of employing technology in education.