The future classroom emerges as an approach to enhance pedagogy. Classroom participants can become more involved in their learning by interaction and collaboration. This becomes practical due to the extensive availability of modern electronic devices and networks. To implement an environment that supports the future classroom, an integration mechanism for various types of devices is required. In this paper, a framework design is proposed using the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT). The

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... aims to model an application domain as a set of things that are associated with the Internet. By analyzing the project requirements of future classroom applications, the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is selected as the communication method for the things. Two examples are also provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the design.