Future educational environment – Identification of smart campus topic trends using text mining

Abstract

PurposeRecent attention to the developments focusing on the educational services has been noteworthy, with the educational environment specifically the smart campus emerging both as a domain and as an opportunity. As a domain worthy of exploration, a number of research efforts are being conceptualized around smart campus initiatives. The existing bouquet of research publications on smart campus provides a testimony of the enthusiasm and also exposes the heterogeneous attempts the domain has witnessed to date. The available evidence is still inadequate to provide clarity on the thrust areas of research around smart campus.Design/methodology/approachGiven the understanding, this study intends to decode the domain to get an early impression of the focus of the research concentration around smart campus. Thereby the study resorts to an automated text-mining approach using Python on contents shortlisted systematically, and published between the period 2010 and May 2022, from select databases.FindingsBased on the analysis it was possible to identify eight themes (i.e. smart campus characteristics, smart campus stakeholders, smart campus frameworks, smart campus technologies, smart campus infrastructure, smart campus evaluation, smart learning environment and smart campus applications) characterizing research efforts within the smart campus literature.Originality/valueThe themes around the smart campus showcase the thrust areas receiving attention. These characterize extant research endeavours in the smart campus domain and can offer useful pointers to researchers going forward. This awareness can also be beneficial to institutional leadership and technology providers intending to implement smart campus initiatives, contributing to the development of the educational environment.

Improvisation Strategies for Student Affairs Informatization Management in China

“…Chinese scholars mostly use the US as an example to explore the development path of student affairs management informatization in Chinese colleges and universities. Smart Campus is a combination of advanced technologies to realize efficient, versatile, and usercentered information technology services (Samancioglu & Nuere, 2023), which has become increasingly popular in the academic community (Joshy et al, 2023), although the research level is still conceptual (Polin et al, 2023). Among the hotspots of Chinese universities' construction of informatization in 2021, "Smart Campus" occupies the first place in most of the rankings (Zhong et al, 2022), and Chinese universities have already focused the direction of informatization on the construction of smart campus and data management and governance, to provide intelligent services for students and staffs.…”