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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.
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Informatization is a well-known Chinese academic construct, but is relatively unknown in Western academia. Informatization is the process by which computer information processing technology and transmission means are widely used in all sectors of society.
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Project 211 is the Chinese government’s endeavor aimed at strengthening about 100 institutions of higher education and key disciplinary areas as a notional priority for the 21st century. Project 985 is a constructive project for founding world-class universities in the 21st century conducted by government of People’s Republic of China from 1998. Referred from http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/cedu/ceduproject211.php.
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Note: Here the data of backbone bandwidth of campus network for K-12 schools were taken by the end of 2012.
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Liu, D., Huang, R., Wosinski, M. (2017). Smart Learning in Digital Campus. In: Smart Learning in Smart Cities. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4343-7_4
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