Emergence of Smart e-Learning and Education Zhu Zhiting
1. Emergence of Smart e-Learning
& e-Education
Zhu Zhiting
At EFQUEL Innovation Forum and International LINQ Conference 2014
Creta Panorama Hotel (Greece), 2014-05-08
2. Contents:
1. Emergence of Smart e-Education
2. Construction of Smart e-Learning
Environment
3. Developing Smart e-Learning Applications in
China
4. Challenges of Facilitating Smart e-Education
3. • IBM brought up the concept of Smarter Planet in 2008
（S. J. Palmisano, A Smarter Planet the Next Leadership Agenda）
• IBM’s vision of Smarter Planet is to build a new global
development model with advanced technology.
• With the support of new technologies, anything in the
world could be instrumented, interconnected and infused
with intelligence
• Smart education as an emerging domain
Emergence of Smart e-Education
Palmisano .S.(2008).A Smarter Planet:the Next Leadership Agenda[EB/OL].
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/20081106/sjp_speech.s
html,2012-09-01.
4. Smart Education as imaged by IBM
IBM, 2009, Education for a Smarter Planet: The
Future of Learning
5. Smart education program in Australia
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/files/au__en_uk__cities__ibm_smarter_education_now.pdf
7. Ecology of smart learning:
• self-paced e-learning
• virtual classrooms & webinars（Web-Based Seminar
• mobile learning
• collaboration based learning
• social learning
• simulation based learning
• game based learning
资料来源：MarketsandMarkets咨询公司：全球智慧教育与学习市场预测报告，2012-06-01
Possibly, …
9. SoLAR：Open Learning Analytics: an integrated & modularized platform， 2011-07-28
Dashboard as smart e-learning analytics tools
10. Comprehending Smart, Intelligence and Wisdom:
A Chinese perspective
Wisdom
智慧
Smart
灵巧/机智
Intelligence
智能/智力
Smarter
Education
Doing things
rightDoing things
rightly
Doing right
things
11. Enriching meaning of Smarter (1): Multiple
Intelligences
Gardner, Howard (2000). Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the
21st Century. Basic Books Inc. ISBN 978-0-465-02611-1.
12. Enriching meaning of Smarter (2) : Advanced to
Wisdom
• Wisdom: The ability to use your knowledge and
experience to make good decisions and
judgments (Cambridge Dictionary).
• According to Confucius, wisdom can be learned
by three methods: reflection (the noblest),
imitation (the easiest) and experience (the
bitterest) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom)
14. The essence of smarter education is to create intelligent
environments by using smart technologies, so that smart
pedagogies can be facilitated as to provide personalized
learning services and empower learners, and thus talents
of wisdom who have better value orientation, higher
thinking quality, and stronger conduct ability could be
fostered. ( Zhu Zhiting, 2012)
A preliminary definition of Smarter Education as proposed
15. If you don’t quite agree upon with the definition of smarter
education, then let’s first find evidences of stupid education…
• Solely emphasizing book-based knowledge while
neglecting development of practical abilities
• …
• High costs but low performance in developing
educational informatization in schools
16. • It advocates personalized learning, on-demand
service, and open & democratic educational
environment
• It is facilitated by perception technology, mobile
technology, wireless technology, cloud technology
and big data technology
Smart e-learning is becoming a new paradigm for
developing educational informatization
18. Contents:
1. Emergence of Smart e-Education
2. Construction of Smart e-Learning
Environment
3. Developing Smart e-Learning Applications in
China
4. Challenges of Facilitating Smart e-Education
19. 2. Construction of Smart e-Learning Environment
• Technological architecture of Smart
Learning Environments
• Smart Learning Space
e-
Learning
m-
Learning
u-
Learning
s-
Learning
20. Tri-tier architecture of Smart Computing Environment
Cloud
Computing
Fog
Computing
Swarm
Computing
28. Contents:
1. Emergence of Smart e-Education
2. Construction of Smart e-Learning
Environment
3. Development of Smart e-Learning
Applications in China
4. Challenges of Facilitating Smart e-Education
29. 105 BC 1041 AD 2010 AD
eSchoolbag & eTextbook: An emerging
technological revolution in education
Page-making Movable type
printing
1145 969
E-Textbook &
e-Schoobag
30. Our research: Designing e-schoolbag as a smart
learning platform
Cloud-based
resource
Online
education
providers
Formal
Learning Connection
Informal Learning
Learning service platform Learning
resource
Analysis
Digital
classroom
ubiquitous
learning
Personal
ized
learning
Context model
Source: Yu Xiao Hua, 2011
Online
community
38. Application case of e-Schoolbag
The Minhang District (闵行区) of Shanghai started pilot
using e-Schoolbags in K12
• 80 classes in 40
schools (4000
students)
2012
• 160 classes in 80
schools(8000
students)
2013
• Planned to full
coverage
(150000 students)
2014
39. Collaborative mechanisms for the Minhang pilot project
电子书包
应用
教育行政部门
（政策规划主体）
公司企业
（技术服务主体）
实验学校
（实践主体）
教育科研机构
（专业引领主体）
创
设
环
境
创
设
环
境
专
业
支
持
技
术
服
务
反
馈
反
馈
反
馈
反
馈
Educational Adm.
Research force in
educational tech.
Schools
Companies
e-Schoolbag
applications.
40. Top-level design of the Minhang pilot project
电子课本
电子书包终端
学习策略
库
管理系统
学具集
资源库
标配软件
无线网络
电子课桌
教学呈现设备
Physical env.
E-Desk
Wireless
Display
Software env.
Delivery
interation
Management
Digital resource
e-Textbook
E-Resource
E-Toolkit
Application pattern
Teaching model
Facilitating strategy
47. Contents:
1. Emergence of Smart Education
2. Construction of Smart Learning Environment
3. Developing Smart Learning Applications in
China
4. Challenges of Facilitating Smart Education
48. My expectations on smart e-education
• Smart e-learning environment could decrease learners’
cognitive load, and thus enable learners focus on sense making
and facilitate ontology construction.
• Smart e-learning environment could deepen and extend
learners’ learning experience, and thus help learners
development in an all-round way (affectivelly, intellectually,
physically).
• Smart e-learning environment enable learners learning flexibly
and working collaboratively, and thus it could foster the
development of personality and collective intelligence.
• Smart e-learning environment could provide better learning
support tailored for learners, so that it could improve learners’
expectation
49. New challenge of digital education
“Wasting time is new divide in digital era”
51. Reflection：value-orientation is crucial to
smarter education
• 96% interpersonal communication
• 93% collaboration/teamwork
• 92% creative problem solving
• 88% critical thinking
• 78% technical skills
Source: Apollo Group, Inc. In-Demand Skills Survey, December 2004
Companies’ in-demand skills
52. More challenges
• Challenges to pedagogical theory
• Challenges to educational technology leadership
• Challenges to teachers’ learning leadership：
changing roles from a lecturer to a coach
• Challenges to educational structures
• Challenges to educational ideology
• ……
53. To meet the challenges, National Project for Advancing
Teachers’ Competencies in pedagogical use of ICT is
initiated by MOE in China in 2013
• Developing competency standards (mainly
undertaken by expert team from ECNU)
• Developing a diversity of training courses (27
modules proposed)
• Combining honest self-assessment with online
workshop
• Fulfilling 50 hours of training for each K12
school teachers (14 million teachers totally)
• Bigdata based evaluation of training quality
(Province-based conduction)
55. Zhu Zhiting, professor of educational technology and lifetime professorship owner, dean of School of Open
Learning and Education, director of e-Education Engineering System Research Center of East China Normal
University (ECNU). He is also the director of China e-Learning Technology Standardization Committee,
vice chairman of Steering Committee for e-Education in Beijing, member of Shanghai Municipal Expert
Committee of Urban Informatization, vice director & expert-in-chief of UNESCO-APEID Association
Center at ECNU, and member of editing boards of several international journals.
Prof. Zhu Zhiting
School of Open Learning and Education
East China Normal University
3663 N. Zhongshan Rd., Shanghai, China 200062
Email：ZTZHU@dec.ecnu.edu.cn
Thank you very much for
your attention
