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With the development of science and technology and the impact of the COVID-19 in recent two years, the concept of the smart campus has gradually played an increasingly important role in universities of China, especially for students. Smart campus is defined as physical space and information space are organically connected, so that anyone, anytime and anywhere can easily obtain resources and services. To better enable students to benefit from the construction of the smart campus in the post-epidemic era, this paper investigates Chinese students and analyzes the data after the average classification by using the statistical method of the linear regression model. Finally, it discusses the relationship between the students' needs and the score of smart campus construction to put forward suggestions for the construction of the smart campus in universities in China © 2022 ACM.
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Teachers and students in universities often need to print various transcripts and certificates. The service offices of campus usually require dedicated staff to provide stamping and printing services, which may be time-consuming and labor-intensive. Moreover, the traditional way of queuing in the service offices during the COVID-19 pandemic has the high risk of crowd gathering induced cross-infection of the epidemic. To overcome the above problems, a smart self-service transcripts and certificates printing system (SSTCPS) has been developed, which enables highly efficient unmanned campus service and epidemic prevention. This article introduces the design of the SSTCPS, demand analysis, system architecture, functional modules, and implementation effects. The SSTCPS consists of six modules: login authentication, item selection and preview, payment, printing and stamping, authenticity verification, and system management. It has the advantages of high efficiency, convenience, diversification, epidemic prevention, and intelligent management. Through the use of the system, it demonstrates that the smart self-service printing system could simplify work process, improve work efficiency, reduce the workload of management staff, and significantly reduce the risk of crowd gathering induced cross-infection of the epidemic. © 2022 IEEE.
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Although technology improvements boosted the digital transition of universities, which built a path for smart campuses, the smartization process is more than simply promoting digitalization. This research aims to identify the essential elements and the most significant deficiencies in the smart campus dimensions and its variables from the user’s viewpoint to offer a list of priorities for decision-makers. Through an importance-performance analysis (IPA) performed using IBP SPSS 26, we tested an integrative smart campus framework in a Brazilian university, previously validated with Latin American experts. This research confirmed that eight dimensions are important for a smart campus evaluation and provided a list of priorities for academic managers. The results indicated the main gaps among importance and performance. This research concluded that the smartization process could not rely on technology attributes only. Universities should meet the modern society’s present and emerging needs and the labor market in a sustainable, social, and technological manner. Smart campuses in developing countries may prioritize different components than developed countries, such as infrastructure. We propose that more studies should apply the framework in more universities.
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The integration of information technology and education conforms to the development trend of the times and meets the needs of education itself. The outbreak of COVID-19 has made the integration of information technology and education more prominent.The construction of smart campus is an important part of the integration of education and information technology.For current digital campus, it means the new pursuit and direction to develop.Taking several Chinese universities as examples,this study analyzed their practice in the process of smart campus construction and summarized their experience,which can help point out directions for the construction of smart campus in the future and provides corresponding countermeasures and suggestions. © 2021 Association for Computing Machinery.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of human life and has even forced humans to shift their life habits, including in the world of education. The learning model must shift from the traditional to modern synchronous or asynchronous models with information technology-based applications. This condition is known as the New Normal era in the education system. Y Generation and Z Generation as educational objects are now very close to technology, especially information technology, including in the teaching and learning process, so there is no need for extra effort in this regard. Therefore, it is essential to create a learning environment under the characteristics of this generation and can also support the new normal era of the education system. We offer the concept of a smart campus framework that integrates an IT-based learning system and a hybrid smart classroom system as a modern education method in an educational scenario that promises to accelerate quality education without leaving a good learning process. This article designs the concept of a smart campus framework that will accommodate a learning model that will accelerate the improvement of the quality of education through smart learning solutions and smart blended learning systems. We also offer achievements in improving service performance through smart academic services solutions and accommodating the management of existing classroom resources through smart equipment system solutions. This framework is designed to automatically solve all university-level education system problems based on multimedia and integrated with websites and information systems used on campus. © 2021 IEEE.
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The smart revolution has penetrated in a wide range of applications. Smart campus, as the high-end form of education systems, deploys cutting-edge information and communication technologies to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of campus services. Under the pandemic of COVID-19, smart campus has shown unprecedented importance owing to its remote, personalized, and ubiquitous features. All these factors have made smart campus an ongoing intense research topic in recent years, whereas existing reviews on smart campus were conducted in earlier years and thus an update is imperatively needed to investigate and summarize the emerging knowledge, technologies, and applications in this context. This paper conducts a systematic review on smart campus technologies and applications, and then strategically classifying them into different domains to investigate the current research pattern. Moreover, adhering to the human-centered principle of smart campus development, a human-centered case study has been carried out and presented in this paper to evaluate the consistency and adherence of current research trend to the stakeholders needs and interests. Author
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Background: Since 22 March 2020, the United Arab Emirates implemented distance learning in public and private schools and higher education institutions as a precaution to protect students from the Covid-19 pandemic. Similar trends have taken place globally, with 1.8 billion learners in 190 countries – almost half of the world’s students-affected by full or partial physical class closures as of March 2021. Currently, about 3.2 million students are undergoing higher education fully online. Apart from exacerbating pre-existing educational disparities by further limiting educational opportunities for vulnerable youth, economic and psycho-social impacts of the pandemic create additional educational and wellbeing obstacles for learners. Despite commendable efforts to provide digital infrastructure and update digital teaching skills of teachers to facilitate online learning in many nations, a large proportion of learners, and a significant percentage of lecturers and university administrators, remain sceptical about the suitability of online learning to promote engagement with peers and faculty, as well as facilitate fair student assessments. Objective: This study examines three determinants of effective delivery of online university learning activities – overcoming online learning hesitancy, developing smart campuses and promoting smart learning. Methods: Both Critical Review and Case Study approaches were adopted. Pertinent literature on the impacts of rapid transition to online learning following the Covid-19 pandemic were examined. The authors coined the term “online learning hesitancy” to describe suboptimal engagement with, and support for, online learning by university students, lecturers and university administrators. Smart Campus and Smart learning activities at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University were utilised as case study to illustrate how redesign of campus and learning activities for online mode significantly reduce online learning hesitancy and optimise learning online. Findings: Online learning hesitancy encumbers learning activities by decreasing the motivation of students to stay engaged with learning activities, decreasing the motivation of lecturers to optimise online presence and develop adequate learning materials, and decreasing university authorities’ commitment to accredit tertiary online programs or invest in technologies for facilitating learning. Importantly, youth’s views on the obstacles posed by online learning to achieving their goals of strong social networking, acculturation, migration and accessing post-graduation working rights in different nations Building smart university campuses and investing in smart learning techniques will help address online learning hesitancy while optimising the potential of contemporary universities to effectively achieve their academic goals. Conclusions: Universities need to seize the opportunity brought about by the Covid-19 crisis to re-imagine education and accelerate changes in technology mediated teaching and learning. Concurrently, the multi-faceted determinants of online learning hesitancy need to be addressed to optimise smart learning among youth. Smart campuses, smart learning approaches, and addressing social and migration-related constraints perceived by a large section of youth transitioning from physical classes to online learning are key parts of the solution. © RJ4All 2022.
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This study presents four robot systems that utilize artificial intelligence techniques to assist students, teachers, and staff in the university. The goal of the assist robot systems is to reduce workload and enhance the effect in teaching and learning as well as improve the learning environment at university. The four robot systems including virtual assistant, telepresence, guide, and delivery robots were proposed and developed. In online learning, the virtual assistant robot supports students and teachers in learning and teaching by an interactive and informative learning environment and consequently maximizing learning outcomes. The telepresence robot allows students to follow the classroom at home or hospital in the case that students are unable to attend classes due to special reasons (Covid-19 pandemic, illness). The guide robot was developed as a physical robot which places or moves in the small range at the library, administrative building, restaurant, and residence to provide information such as book searching, freshman quiz, restaurant menu, events, and places. Finally, the delivery robot aims to deliver documents, books, and food/drink to students and teachers on the university campus in the motive of improving the quality of life and services. The motivation of this paper is highlighting the benefits of using robots in the development of smart-university. Experiments at Eastern International University showed that students are interested in the four robot systems and these robots enhance student engagement in learning and campus activities as well as significantly reduce the teacher’s workload. The virtual assistant, the telepresence, and the delivery robots gave great benefits in tackling the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic while the guide robot created exciting experience and productive outcomes for new students and visitors. © 2022 J. Adv. Inf. Technol.
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At present, climate change, pollution, and uncontrolled urbanism threaten not only natural ecosystems, but also the urban environment. Approaches to mitigate these challenges and able to provide an alternative for the use of the space are deemed to be multidisciplinary, combining architecture, vegetation integration, circular economy and information and communications technologies (ICT). University campuses are a key scenario to evaluate such solutions as their student and research community is intrinsically willing to support these experiences and provide a wide knowledge on the fields necessary for their design and implementation. However, the creation of areas combining usability and sustainability is commonly lacking a multidisciplinary approach combining all these different perspectives. Hence, the present work aims to overcome this limitation by the development of a novel integrated approach for campus spaces for co-working and leisure, namely a "Smart Tree", where novel architecture, furniture design, flora integration, environmental sensoring and communications join together. To this end, a survey of the literature is provided, covering related approaches as well as general principles behind them. From this, the general requirements and constraints for the development of the Smart Tree area are identified, establishing the main interactions between the architecture, greening and ICT perspectives. Such requirements guide the proposed system design and implementation, whose impact on the environment is analyzed. Finally, the research challenges and lessons learned for their development are identified in order to support future works.
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The management of mobility in large cities is a complex issue of great interest due to its economic, social, and environmental impact. In this work, the interurban mobility of engineering students from two campuses of the University of Seville is studied. Specifically, this work carries out an analysis of the preferences of students in terms of mobility to their study centres and determines the environmental impact of such mobility in terms of kg of CO2 per student. Three constructs can be found to describe the motivation for their choice of transport: those related to comfort and speed, those related to sustainability and price, and those related to safety. Based on the responses obtained, groups of students are established that enable the design of specific actions in accordance with each of the profiles. From the analysis of the results obtained, recommendations are made for policymakers, and a reflection is given on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this issue.