Recently, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education and Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology jointly announced the results of "Model Smart Campus 2022", and our school was on the list with high scores.
JSOU officially started the application in July 2022, and led by Vice President Geng Huantong, the Information Construction Department set up a task force in collaboration with various departments to collect supporting materials, and successively composed more than 30 versions of application package. In the defense stage, Vice President Zhang Xiao, Vice President Geng Huantong and Chief Engineer Wang Xiaojun "formed a defense team and successfully completed the online defense.
A Forward-looking Smart Campus
Guided by the strategic deployment on strengthening the country via internet and education digitization, JSOU has attached great importance to network security and informatization construction, adhered to the support of modern information technology, and strengthened the top-level design. It focuses on the "518 Project" of digital construction, and keeps exploring the digital support for vocational education, higher education and continuing education around five construction goals—"one road, one cloud, one resource library, one center, and one base".
In recent years, the university has further promoted the digital transformation of education centered on data governance, and created a new infrastructure system integrating "cloud, network, edge and end", an "information superhighway", and a digital new infrastructure integrating high-performance cloud computing data center and smart education space. Applying information technology to the whole process of education, teaching, and management, it has created five key applications in intelligent environment building, intelligent teaching, integrated service, resource sharing, and intelligent decision-making. Gradually, the new service ecology of "Internet+education" was built for "serving learning, teaching, governance, decision-making and cooperation", along with new modes of talent training and innovative measures of school governance in the digital age.
A New Chapter of Shouldering Responsibilities
The award of "Model Smart Campus" marks the accumulation of Jiangsu Open University in the past ten years after its renaming, during which great achievements have been made in the construction of informatization:
1. Intelligent perception to build a safe and reliable smart education environment.
A high-speed, core private network covering all open universities in the province was constructed, including a basic campus network environment to realize cross-campus, 10-Gigabit optical fiber interconnection and network integration. With a three-dimensional network security system of "system+team+technology", the school network and information security is ensured.
2. Integration of reality and the virtual to enable general and personalized teaching.
New-generation information technologies such as AI and big data are innovatively used to build a large-scale, highly concurrent, and personalized integrated teaching and educational platform, covering the whole educational scenes such as admission, enrollment and payment, course learning, examination and evaluation, educational administration, and graduation. At present, the platform provides education and teaching services for 163,000 registered students and more than 3,000 teachers, supporting more than 50,000 virtual classes. The peak daily visits of online users have reached 30 million, a leading number among open universities in China.
3. Comprehensive services to enhance the experience of smart campus.
Around the hybrid cloud, the university's basic data warehouse, data exchange and sharing platform, and big data analysis platform have been built, together with public support platforms to realize the comprehensive mobile application of information systems, which effectively improves the university’s basic application and collaborative service capabilities.
4. Daring to undertake responsibility and serve the lifelong learning for all.
Building the digital resource library for lifelong learning to integrate development of vocational education, higher education and continuing education and having served more than 3.5 million people, the university has innovated resource construction and application mode and forms a modern lifelong learning ecology integrating curriculum learning, resource application, achievement certification and credit storage.
5. Data empowerment to promote the digital transformation of education governance.
Around the big data computing center, data governance services are introduced to the construction of big data platforms, unified data standards were established, and 235 unified data standards were formulated. Relying on the data center, it smoothens data sharing channels and effectively eliminates data islands. Up to now, it has realized data integration of 14 key business systems, gathered more than 80 million pieces of data, and completed data sharing and visualization of 19 themes in 180 dimensions to better data governance models and give full play to interdepartmental synergy.
A Promising Future to Start Again and Forge Ahead
As the 1,100-mu new campus construction is in full swing, JSOU will take it as a starting point, strengthening and tamping the foundation, and constantly trying out the application of new technologies. Soon, it will build a digital campus with the integration of reality and the virtual, further promote the demonstration and radiation of Digital and Smart JSOU, and make concerted efforts to accelerate the high-quality development of the university.