Smart education has been a topic of conversation in all Korean schools since June 29, 2011 when the Korean government announced its smart education initiative. Some say, however, that no specific qualities of smart education have been identified yet. ...
Smart education has been a topic of conversation in all Korean schools since June 29, 2011 when the Korean government announced its smart education initiative. Some say, however, that no specific qualities of smart education have been identified yet. As such, this study aimed to introduce the conceptual background to smart education and its environment, and to explore its pedagogical implications. As a result, this study found three pedagogical implications of smart education: First, smart education calls for a new pedagogy. That is, the new pedagogy should not just deal with letters and numbers but also address sounds and images together with all other types of multimedia. Second, teachers and students as workforce have the same importance in classrooms. Third, a resource-enriched learning environment will be implemented in the form of content cloud where teachers and students can freely and safely upload and download open educational resources and content together.