Nowadays, with the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), many countries have been developing Smart Plus vigorously for the sake of enhancing national strength. On account of the development of ICT in education has the trend towards intelligentization, smart education come into being. However, the quality of smart education varies greatly without common definition and connotation analysis of smart education. In the study, the connotation of smart is discussed from perspective of philosophy, Chinese culture, semantics and so forth. Then,
expanding the meaning from smart/wisdom to smart education. Furthermore, comparing with the different connotations of smart education which mentioned by researchers both at home and abroad, so as to clean up the border of smart education from technology supporting, data applying and participants to make a contribution to the related research areas.
北京师范大学科学教育研究院
Science Education Academy of Beijing Normal University