Smart Education Innovations from China

New Stage, New Standards, New Pathways
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-981-9258-57-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology

As artificial intelligence reshapes education worldwide, educators are experimenting with new approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment. This volume documents how these innovations are being implemented across China, providing evidence from real-world practice rather than policy alone.

China has responded with remarkable ambition and institutional coherence. Yet policy architecture is only as real as the practices it generates. This volume exists because those practices exist — in extraordinary variety, in unexpected places, and at a depth that policy documents alone cannot convey. Under the guidance of the Department of Science, Technology and Informatization of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the organizing committee of the Global Smart Education Conference and the Ministry's Education Informatization Strategic Research Bases (Beijing, Central China, Northwest) solicited outstanding smart education cases in 2025, carefully selecting 1,008 cases from across every province of the country. The chapters synthesized from that corpus span four categories: regional development initiatives documenting how provinces and districts have built sustainable smart education ecosystems; school-level practices capturing classroom innovation and new pedagogical models; technology solution cases in which enterprises demonstrate AI platforms and intelligent tools deployed at scale; and research outcomes in which academic institutions contribute new theory, comparative analysis, and policy recommendations. 

Rather than presenting smart education as a finished achievement, this volume captures an evolving process of innovation, experimentation, and reflection. It offers China's experience as a contribution to the global conversation on educational transformation, framed by the "3N" vision of a New Stage of smart education, New Standards for talent cultivation, and New Pathways toward high-quality educational development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Dejian

Zheng, Qinhua

Hao, Jianjiang

Xu, Jian

Zhang, Zhuo

Zeng, Haijun

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Overview    .- Chapter 1. Toward a Comprehensive Smart Education Ecosystem: Regional Practices, Systemic Challenges, and Strategic Pathways in China.- Part II. Building a Collaborative and Integrated Education System.- Chapter 2. Regional Education Digital Transformation and the New Ecosystem of Smart Education: A Review Analysis Based on 40 Typical Cases.- Chapter 3. Digital Intelligence Empowers Educational Reform: Diverse Typical Practices of Educational Digital Transformation.- Chapter 4. Development and Governance of Educational Digitization.- Chapter 5:Technology Empowerment and Ecological Synergy: Digital Approaches and Practical Logic for Rural Education Revitalization.- Chapter 6. Digital-Intelligent Technologies Empowering Students’ Physical and Mental Health.- Part III. Reshaping an Open and Integrated Curriculum Ecosystem and Teaching Methods.- Chapter 7. The Driving Logic and Practical Exploration of Smart Homework Reform.- Chapter 8. Practical Pathways and Innovative Models of Smart Reading.- Chapter 9. Practical Exploration of Smart Classrooms in the Digital Intelligence Era.- Chapter 10. Integrated Applications of Smart Education Platforms: A Full-Case Review of Platform-Based Educational Transformation.- Chapter 11. Project-Based Learning in Chinese Basic Education: Thirty-Two Case Studies Organized by Six Themes.- Chapter 12. Digital Technology-Enabled Five-Domain Integrated Education: Practical Pathways Derived from 34 Smart Education Cases in China.- Chapter 13. Innovative Practices and Pathways of Digital Technology-Enabled Ideological and Political Education: A Review of 16 Smart Education Cases.- Chapter 14. Exploration of Innovative Practices in the Application of Digital Teaching Tools.- Chapter 15. Digitalization Empowering the Cultivation of Applied Talents: Model Innovation and Practical Paths.- Chapter 16. Practical Pathways and Innovative Exploration of New Teaching Models in the Context of Digital-Intelligence Integration.- Chapter 17. From Immersion to Transformation: Unveiling the Path of XR Innovation in Educational Practices.- Chapter 18. Practical Mechanisms and Innovative Pathways of Dual-Teacher Classroom Applications Supported by the National Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools.- Chapter 19. Innovative Pathways of Teaching Models Driven by the National Smart Education Platform.- Part IV Literacy-Oriented Teaching Research and Comprehensive Evaluation Mechanisms.- Chapter 20. Digital Platforms for Regional Comprehensive Quality Evaluation: A Review of 18 SEED-Enabled Regional Cases in China.- Chapter 21. Making Student Development Visible: A Review of 41 Cases of Technology-Enabled Comprehensive Quality Assessment.- Chapter 22. Reconstruction of Data-driven Education Evaluation: System Construction and Practice Innovation of SEED Platform Empowering Students' Comprehensive Quality Evaluation.- Chapter 23. Integrating Teaching and Assessment in Primary Schools: Practices and Implications.- Chapter 24. Exploration on the Practical Path of Educational Evaluation Reform and Comprehensive Quality Evaluation.- Chapter 25. Digital Technology-Enabled Collaborative Teacher Research and Professional Development.- Chapter 26. Empowering Teacher Teaching Research and Professional Development through Smart Education Platforms: Practical Explorations.- Part V. Diversified Learning Environments and Digital Resource Sharing.- Chapter 27. Research on Scenario-Based Practices and Development Pathways for AI-Enabled Smart Campus Construction.- Chapter 28. Construction and Sharing of High-Quality Educational Resources.- Chapter 29. Smart Education Solutions: AI-Empowered Innovations in Teaching, Management, and Ecosystem Reshaping.- Part VI. High-Quality Teacher Development and Family-School-Community Collaborative Education.- Chapter 30. Practical Pathways for Enhancing AI Literacy among Teachers and Students in the Intelligent Era.- Chapter 31. Scenario Innovation and Development Pathways of Digital Technology-Empowered School-Family-Community Collaborative Education.- Part VII. Science Education, Generative AI, and the Future of Smart Education.- Chapter 32. AI-Mediated Science and Innovation Education in Chinese Basic Education: Twenty-Eight Case Studies.- Chapter 33. Practical applications of generative artificial intelligence in enhancing classroom teaching.- Chapter 34. Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Advancing Teaching and Learning Innovation.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Dejian LIU is the Founder and Chairman of NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited, and serves as Co-Dean of the Smart Learning Institute and the National Engineering Research Center for Big Data Application in Education at Beijing Normal University, China. He is a member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), and is widely regarded as a leader in the field of smart education innovation. As a contributor to China’s National Smart Education Platform, Dr. Liu has driven technological innovations aimed at enhancing educational equity. He has played a pivotal role in global education initiatives under UNESCO and the Belt and Road Initiative, with impact across Africa, the Middle East, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regions. Through NetDragon’s education technologies, his work now supports over 1.3 million classrooms in more than 150 countries. Dr. Liu and his team hold over 1,400 patents and have authored 17 books and more than 30 academic papers.

Dr. Qinhua ZHENG is Professor of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, China, as well as the Executive Deputy Director of the National Engineering Research Centre of Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology. Since 2006, he has been engaged in teaching and research at Beijing Normal University, focusing on Internet Education, Educational Big Data and Educational Artificial Intelligence. He has published 7 monographs in Chinese and English, as well as over 100 academic papers in both languages.

Dr. Jianjiang HAO is Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Educational Technology (School of Intelligent Education), Northwest Normal University (China), specializing in research areas such as the application of intelligent technology in education, digital rural education, planning for educational digitalization, and the integration of information technology and curriculum. He has served as the principal investigator or a participant in numerous projects at national, provincial, and other levels, and has published multiple academic papers.

Dr. Jian XU is Deputy Director of the Center for Educational Informatization Planning and Evaluation at Central China Normal University (China), Vice Dean of the Hubei Institute of Education Digital Research at Central China Normal University, and Secretary-General of the Future Education Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy. He has been engaged in guiding the development of the National 'Internet+Education' Demonstration Zone in Ningxia province, and has provided guidance for the construction of other National Smart Education Demonstration Zones in Wuhan, Shenzhen, Wenzhou, and Nanchang.

Zhuo ZHANG is a Project Manager of the National Engineering Research Centre of Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology at Beijing Normal University, China. Her main research interests include smart education and the application of artificial intelligence in education. In recent years, she has been deeply involved in the Smart Education Demonstration Zone project by the Ministry of Education, as well as research and support work for a key special project on social governance and smart society technology, supported by the National Development and Reform Commission.

Dr. Haijun ZENG is Ph.D., Vice Dean of the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University (China), Deputy Director of the Educational Informatization Strategy Research Base (Beijing) of the Ministry of Education of China, and Deputy Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology. His main research interests include online education and Digital Learning Support (DLS) service system.