The educational goal that fulfills the requirements of these emerging technologies/industries is to train students to play an active role in these new science and technology fields, and the purpose of this study is to develop teaching strategies, materials, methods, and activities on the theme of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart buildings. To do so, the study explores how new human-computer interactions and methodologies such as mobile, web-based, and ubiquitous learning can help instructors to enhance their students’ learning performance relative to their fundamental knowledge and their practical and creative ability to apply emerging technology to architectural design. Specifically, the study develops a progressive teaching process, involving knowledge, practice and creativity that can be applied to courses in the smart building, smart building and energy conservation, and architectural design. The above-mentioned teaching strategy and materials will follow the educational theories. A three-year plan for achieving the proposed research goal is as follows. (1) First year: fundamental knowledge: developing a teaching strategy and methodology that supports emerging smart-building and IoT technologies. (2) Second year: practical power: applying a learning-by-doing teaching strategy to equip students with the capabilities of the emerging smart-building technologies. (3) Third year: creativity: applying a human-centered design approach to develop students’ abilities in the area of innovative architectural design based on emerging smart-building technologies.