On the morning of May 14, 2025, the First Executive Council Meeting and the 2025 General Assembly of the World Digital Education Alliance (WDEA) were successfully convened in Wuhan during the World Digital Education Conference 2025. These meetings marked the official establishment of the Alliance’s governance mechanism and signified a new stage of institutionalized and standardized operations.
On January 30, 2024, the World Digital Education Conference 2024 opened in Shanghai under the theme “Digital Education: Application, Sharing, and Innovation.” During the conference, the World Digital Education Alliance (WDEA) was officially launched. Representing the founding organizations, Mr. Liu Limin, President of the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), introduced the background of the Alliance’s establishment and considerations for its future development.
From February 13 to 14, 2023, the World Digital Education Conference was held in Beijing. At the conference, Mr. Liu Limin, President of the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), released the proposal to establish the World Digital Education Alliance (WDEA).
As countries around the world hold the universal consensus on education digitalization to provide everyone with inclusive and equal access to high-quality education, and in the face of educational development and reforms, China is ready to join hands with other countries in promoting mutual exchange between different civilizations, sharing high-quality education resources, constructing a cooperative innovation ecosystem, and guarding the security of AI, for the achievement of lifelong, equal, personalized, open, and flexible education. This white paper is thereby published to make a comprehensive introduction to China’s philosophies, ideas, measures, and achievements in education digitalization and smart education, in the pursuit of deepening international exchanges and cooperation in the field of digital education to jointly draw a new blueprint for the development of global smart education.
Frontiers of Digital Education is an English academic journal supervised by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, sponsored by Higher Education Press, and internationally distributed by Springer Nature. The journal is aiming to reflect the dynamic trends in digital education policies, academic frontiers, and research hotspots from various countries. The journal explores key issues and challenges in digital education and technological innovation, establishing a distinctive platform for the dissemination and communication of significant achievements in digital education. The dedication of this journal lies in contributing to the advancement of digital education.
Today, digital education has emerged as a transformative force in education systems worldwide. International organizations such as UNESCO, OECD, and EU, along with many countries, have placed a greater emphasis on evaluating the development level of digital education. To facilitate comprehensive monitoring and evaluation of global digital education, and promote the exchange and mutual learning among countries, the China National Academy of Educational Sciences assembled a dedicated research team to develop the Global Digital Education Development Index (GDEI) adopting an evidence-based evaluation paradigm. After rigorous analysis of evidence from over 200 countries, the research team selected 62 countries at the forefront of digital education to establish a global evidence base and calculate the index. The GDEI was officially released at the 2024 World Conference on Digital Education held in Shanghai, China on January 31, garnering widespread attention from society.
This book presents 28 practical case studies in detail and 49 case studies in brief. The collection of these case studies focuses on one or more aspects of exploration and practice on the following topics: smart campus and smart classroom, resource construction and sharing, new teaching mode, comprehensive quality evaluation of students, teacher professional development, application of teaching platform and tool, innovative application of online learning space, collaborative education, and school management and services.
This book presents the best practices of smart education in different regions across China. Each chapter addresses one or more of the following topics: smart learning environments, new education and teaching models, teaching platforms and digital tool applications, teacher professional development, smart education evaluation, education governance, and education digitization.
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