Iran to Hold First Conference on Culture, Education in Cyberspace, Smart University

“In a smart university, we are looking for the cultural and education life of users in virtual space,” Najafpour Aqabeiglou told ANA.

He explained that first, it was supposed that the conference on culture and education in virtual space and smart university would be held about the generality of virtual education and smart university but in further investigations, it became clear that the subjects of this field are highly broad and it was decided that the conference would be divided into phases.

“In the first phase, the focus is on the cultural and educational dimensions and in the next phases attention should be paid to the education, science and technology in the smart university,” Najafpour Aqabeiglou said.

“In our view, a smart university includes virtual education. The university includes processes like education, research, technology, cultural and student aspects, and therefore, focusing on virtual education is not correct, and for this reason, we replaced the term smart university in order to address all aspects of making the university smarter, because education is one of the processes of the university and other processes like research, acculturation, technology production, etc. also exist and a smart university should pay attention to all these processes,” he underlined.

A smart university is a university that provides innovative ways of working, learning and teaching in spaces that creatively integrate advanced hardware and software platforms that utilize big data, sensors, social media and machine learning.

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