Smart Learning in Digital Campus
Smart learning can happen anywhere, however, the formal learning in schools and universities is still the basic environment. Digital campus plays an important role in expanding of the school’s campus, enriching campus culture, and optimizing teaching, res
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Smart Learning in Digital Campus
Abstract Smart learning can happen anywhere, however, the formal learning in schools and universities is still the basic environment. Digital campus plays an important role in expanding of the school’s campus, enriching campus culture, and optimizing teaching, research, management, and service. This chapter investigates the current status of digital campus in China, mainly from the perspective of network construction, setting digital learning terminals, providing learning support systems, and information safety. Desk research method was used in this study, and data about the current status of digital campus from the Statistical Education 2013 to 2014 in China were analyzed. Results reveal that the network access has improved, the learning terminals are enriched, the construction of teaching support service system is unbalanced in different schools, and information safety has been enhanced. Following the analysis of the status, the future trends of digital campus are discussed, and 10 best practices of digital campus in China are introduced. Keywords Digital campus
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Introduction
As discussed in the previous chapters, smart learning in smart city includes lots of learning scenarios, both formal learning in school, and informal learning at home and society. In the following chapters we are going to discuss smart learning in different settings, such as schools, classrooms, enterprises, and industries. The concept of Digital campus is widely used in China’s governmental policy documents and academic literature. Digital campus usually refers to the digital environment that integrates a variety of systems for teaching and learning, with the purpose to expand the school’s campus, enrich campus culture, and optimize processes such as teaching, research, management, and service Huang et al.(2012a, b). The development of digital campus in China originated from colleges and universities. In 1994, benefited from the construction of CERNET (China Education and Research Network), construction of campus networks in colleges © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 D. Liu et al., Smart Learning in Smart Cities, Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4343-7_4
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and universities entered a stage of a high-speed development. The universal construction of digital campuses in basic education started since the initiation of the project “School-to-School connection” in 2000. In June 2012, the Ministry of Education of China released the “12th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Education in China”, and raised the idea of incorporating informatization1 of education into the rank of national development strategy. On September 5, 2012, during the television conference of national education informatization, vice-prime minister Liu, Yandong (State Councilor at that time) pointed out, that during the 12th Five-Year period, China should concentrate on the construction of “Three Connections and
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