This book aims to reflect the digital transformation of Chinese education toward smart
education comprehensively and accurately. It is the first systematic summary of the progress of
smart education in China. The book believes that smart education is a new education form in the
digital era and is essentially distinct from education forms in the industrial era. This new
education form is innovative in five dimensions. First is the new core concept. Smart education
is not only a concrete action concerning people's well-being but also a vital strategy
concerning national plans. Through technology empowerment and data drive it empowers
educational reform in all aspects systematically constructs a new relationship between
education and society provides suitable education for each learner and makes the
aptitude-based teaching that we have been dreaming of for thousands of years a reality. For the
first time in history smart education helps to reach the full alignment between individual
development and societal development. Second is the new system structure. Smart education will
break through the boundaries of school education drive the diversified combination of various
education types resources and elements promote the collaboration of school family and
society in education and build a high-quality individualized lifelong learning system that is
available for anyone anywhere anytime. Third is the new teaching paradigm. Smart education will
integrate physical social and digital spaces to create new learning scenarios and promote
human-technology integration and cultivate cross-grade cross-class and cross-discipline
learning communities across time and space to organically combine large-scale education with
individualized cultivation. Fourth is the new educational content. Smart education will focus
on developing all-round education establishing digital knowledge graphs based on systematic
logics of knowledge points and innovating content presentation methods to make learning a
wonderful experience and help learners develop higher-order thinking skills comprehensive
innovation capability and lifelong learning ability. Fifth is the new education governance.
With data governance at the core and digital intelligence technology as the driver smart
education will boost the holistic reengineering of education administration and business
processes and enhance the modernization of the education governance system and governance
capacity. This book is intended for teachers education administrators education policymakers
education researchers and parents concerned about education innovation and development as
well as people from all walks of life who have aspirations for the education industry. It can
also serve as a reference for international organizations and education research institutions
of all countriesto promote the joint exploration of the development path of smart education and
create a better future for the world's mutual development through educational reform.
