OIKLScan issue #15

2 March, 2018 – Smart Campus Issue

Happenings and Opinions in Higher Education NTU Singapore Launches New Learning Hub with 56 Smart Classrooms

The Smart Campus: a Future for our Universities?

Source: Dominic Pates, Senior Educational Technologist - City, University of London, Bett 2018, Youtube.

The new ARC building recently opened in NTU is featured in this news story by the OpenGov Asia website. It is branded as a part of NTU’s Smart Campus vision.

Online Educators’ Recommendations for Teaching Online: Crowdsourcing in Action This article examines crowdsourced recommendations from educators to improve online-teaching. The article not only shares the recommendations, but also explores how crowd-sourcing can be used as a research methodology, using themselves as an example.

Space as a Tool for Analysis: Examining Digital Learning Spaces This article explores the definition of online spaces and challenges how educators think of such

This is a video recording of a panel talk at the Bett Show – an “industry show” of education technology in Britain. The panel session in this video is made up of representatives from both a University pursuing a Smart Campus initiative (University of Glasgow) as well as two professionals in technology companies who discuss the current state of Smart Campus developments and how current technology can be used. A brief description of the panel from the moderator can be read here.

spaces. They argue that there is a need to re-think and redesign online, digital spaces to ensure that learning in such spaces are effective. To that end, they are proposing an analytical framework to Source: Mershad, K., & Wakim, P. (2018). A Learning Management examine the problems and System Enhanced with Internet of Things Applications. Journal of tensions faced when Education and Learning, 7(3), 23.. teaching in such spaces.

A Learning Management System Enhanced with Internet of Things Applications

Guidelines for Higher Education Libraries in Portugal This article provides a summary of the best practices that libraries in Portugal are exploring and pursuing. Summarised into a set of guidelines, the scope includes recommendations on supporting teaching, research and reinventing spaces, amongst others.

This article describes a framework for integrating traditional Learning Management Systems with Internet of Things technology. The framework described in this article is being developed as a project in the AUL (Arts, Sciences and Technology University in Lebanon).

More about IoT in Universities: 1. Building Smart University Using Innovative Technology and Architecture

Smart Campus in DTU Source: Technical University of Denmark

This web portal by the Technical University of Denmark provides a complete view of the University’s efforts at developing Smart Campus initiatives, providing both updates of ongoing projects as well as funding information and support for new projects from not just researchers, but also students.

Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics and Interactive Design Source: Jason Griffey (2018). Library Technology Reports, 54(1).

The January issue of the American Library Association’s Library Technology Reports journal is dedicated to exploring the current state of technology that can be used

to develop smart buildings for academic libraries, using three case studies from universities in America and Canada. This issue was edited by Jason Giffey, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

More about Libraries and Smart Campus: 1. Connector, Catalyst and Common Good: Defining the Academic Library of the 21st Century

Follow this link to access back issues of OIKLScan