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SMART Community Exchange (SCE)
’Partners in SMART Workforce Development and Training’
SMART Learning Environment (SLE)
The SMART Learning Environment (SLE)
workforce development and training program, is a
Private-Public Partnership, designed to advance
current learning environments towards SMART
Learning Environments. The SLE engages
various stakeholders, providing the stakeholders
opportunities to participate in SMART partner
projects in select locations across the USA and
around the world. The SLE integrates best
practice in pedagogy and technology to transform
curriculum, teaching behavior, administration,
best practice, and innovation of new ideas.
SMART Cities and SMART Learning
The indicators of a smart city include smart
economy, smart people (learning), smart
governance, smart environment and smart living.
Smart learning system in the smart city
construction process is a system that can provide
comprehensive social services: on the one hand,
it is a specific smart learning sector for a smart
city, creating a city’s smart education system and
citizens’ learning environments; on the other
hand, it is also smart community management
element of a smart community, which offers self-
organized learning environments.
SMART Classrooms
Smart classroom is about smart learning. The
Smart Classroom integrates voice-recognition,
computer-vision, and other technologies to
provide a tele-education experience similar to a
real classroom experience. Smart classrooms
should be associated with organizing and setting
learning space in schools in a way that the best
conditions for learning, physical and
methodological, are generated in the most
efficient and satisfactory way possible for all
agents involved in the process.The design of the
smart classroom includes the presentation of
material, access to learning resources, interactive
teaching, contextual awareness, classroom layout
and electrical management etc., which could be
shown in SMART classroom model. SMART
classroom concept model includes Showing,
Management, Accessible, Real-time interaction,
and Testing (SMART).
SMART Learning
Smart learning  is an emerging area alongside
other related emerging areas such as smart
technology, smart teaching, smart education,
smart-e-learning, smart classrooms, smart
universities, smart society. The challenging
exploitation of smart environments for learning
together with new technologies and approaches
such as ubiquitous learning and mobile learning
could be termed smart learning.
The adjective ‘smart’ in smart learning involves
some similar characteristics to the ones attributed
to a person that is regarded as being ‘smart’.
Some of these characteristics include the ability to
“adapt in creative and innovative ways to novel or
unusual circumstances”, to engage “in
appropriate planning prior to making a decision or
taking an action”, and to engage “in doing things
that are generally effective and efficient.” In other
words, being ‘smart’ is attributed to “an action or
decision that involved careful planning,
cleverness, innovation, and/or a desirable
outcome.”
Another definition of SMART is provided by the
Interactive Technology and Smart Education
Information peer-reviewed journal. It states that
“SMART” is used as an acronym that refers to
interactive technology that offers a more flexible
and tailored approach to meet diverse individual
requirements by being “Sensitive, Manageable,
Adaptable, Responsive and Timely” to educators’
pedagogical strategies and learners’ educational
and social needs’.
Smart learning environments encompass -
intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), adaptive
learning systems, technology-enhanced learning,
web-based learning, mobile learning - context-
aware ubiguitous learning using sensing
technologies. They enable learners to access
digital resources and interact with learning
systems in any place and at any time, and