Design and application of intelligent teaching space for blended teaching

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of education forms, and the combination of online and offline teaching has become the core development direction of university teaching at present and in the future. Therefore, appropriate teaching space is urgently needed to support the practice of blended teaching. Firstly, this paper introduces the practice of intelligent teaching space supporting blended teaching and analyzes its existing problems in China. Secondly, aiming at these problems and the new characteristics of blended teaching development, this paper designs the system architecture of the intelligent teaching space, and applied it to the construction of “Learning in ZJU” in Zhejiang University. Finally, the paper presents a variety of blended teaching cases of “Learning in ZJU” and their application effects, and analyzes them by SWOT. The SWOT analysis shows that the system architecture of the intelligent teaching space has advantages in the blended teaching application of space, time, method, evaluation and analysis. It can provide reference for the construction of intelligent teaching space and the application of blended teaching in other universities.

KEYWORDS:

• Blended teaching
• intelligent teaching space
• smart classroom
• teaching support system
• intelligent decision

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Zhejiang University informatization major project: “Learning in ZJU” Construction Project [Grant Number 2020-CGZX-NM-202].

Notes on contributors

Yuhui Yang

Yuhui Yang is a senior engineer at the Information Technology Center of Zhejiang University, specializing in intelligent teaching space research. Yu Hui has nearly 10 years of experience in the construction of smart teaching space. He once led a team to build the “Learning in ZJU” intelligent teaching space for Zhejiang University. The space has helped 100,000 teachers and students at Zhejiang University complete online and mixed teaching from 2019 to 2021. He has presided over more than 10 educational informatization research projects of The Ministry of Education of China, Zhejiang Province and Zhejiang University. He has published more than 10 papers on teaching space research in journals such as Modern Educational Technology and IJET. For example, “The Creation and Application of Distance Teaching Space based on Virtual Reality – Taking The cross-border VR Distance Teaching of Harvard University and Zhejiang University as an Example”, “The Design and Application of VR/AR Smart Classroom Based on Cloud Rendering” el al., these successes have won the first prize of Zhejiang Province education science planning.

Hao Zhang

Hao Zhang is an associate professor at Hangzhou Normal University, specializing in blended teaching and digital teaching.

Huifang Chai

Huifang Chai is an engineer of Zhejiang University Information Technology Center, mainly engaged in the research of online teaching platform construction, and has presided over six educational informatization construction projects of Zhejiang University.

Wei Xu

Wei Xu is an associate professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, specializing in blended teaching and digital teaching.