The Continuous Pursuit of Smart Learning

Abstract

With an emphasis on learning flexibility, effectiveness, efficiency, engagement, adaptivity and reflectiveness, smart learning embraces a variety of concepts, including but not limited to personalised learning, adaptive learning, intelligent tutoring, open online learning, blended learning, and collaborative learning. As new concepts continue to evolve, the pursuit of smart learning is ongoing, mainly in areas pertaining to the design and implementation frameworks, pedagogical theories and practices, learners’ behaviours and learning pattern, learning and assessment strategies and evaluation of learning performance and perception. This editorial gives an overview of smart learning and provides the context on the latest development of smart learning in which the articles in this special issue are located.

Smart classroom preferences and information literacy among college students

“…They showed a relatively strong desire for interaction and cooperation among students and they were more likely to perceive the simplicity and usefulness of technology. They also tended to favour utilising technology to explore various ways to enhance their learning (Cheung & Wang, 2021). The findings echo the results of the study conducted by Y.…”

“…Third, it is necessary to reconstruct the evaluation criteria of smart classrooms and incorporate the improvement of students' information literacy as an important indicator. The ultimate goals of building smart classrooms are to guide students to become self-directed learners and help students acquire 21stcentury competencies, such as information literacy (Cheung & Wang, 2021). Consequently, relevant institutions and organisations should develop assessment standards for the effectiveness of smart learning environments, which not only include relevant content of technological solutions but also focus on the development of students' information literacy.…”

College students’ learning perceptions and outcomes in different classroom environments: A community of inquiry perspective

“…Previous research has indicated that smart classrooms provide opportunities for students to use digital learning resources and tools in their self-regulated learning and collaborative inquiry learning activities ( Zhang et al, 2019 ). Obviously, instructors could obtain more support for trying the new pedagogies with mobile terminals in smart classrooms ( Zhan et al, 2021 ); and students demonstrated relatively stronger desire for interaction and tendency for utilizing the technology to enhance their learning in the smart classrooms ( Cheung and Wang, 2021 ). For example, Mimouni (2022) found that students were more engaged in learning by using clickers for interaction; and group interaction was also improved, with the pedagogy being changed from teacher-centered to student-centered.…”

Continuous Use Intention of Mobile Social Network Information Service Based on User Behavior Perception

“…Literature [ 8 ] analyzes the feasibility of applying LBS to the group buying industry and discusses the existing problems and suggestions for improvement of the group buying website based on LBS. Literature [ 9 ] summarizes and analyzes the mobile e-commerce marketing model based on LBS based on relevant cases in the field of mobile e-commerce and predicts the development trend of mobile e-commerce based on LBS. Literature [ 10 ] proposed the prospect of mobile development of LBS business and the strategy of LBS application innovation through the SWOT analysis model and carried out a simple LBS system planning and design for the industrial application of LBS personal products with practical needs.…”