Developing Software Architecture for A Smart School Digital Framework

Abstract

Education is a fundamental need for everyone. The smart school is an education institution that has been systematically implemented based on technology, in order to prepare children for the information age, and help with the school's activities, facilities, infrastructures as well as improving the quality of education that enables everyone to access basic fundamental education anywhere, at any time. Nowadays, various schools adopt the smart school system framework in order to cope with the challenges and adjust to changing environments. From the various studies, a lot of smart schools were established in Malaysia, Iran and many developing countries which have the development process to support the study and learning functions by integrating information and communication technology (ICT) in studying and learning in order to transfer knowledge to the student by focusing on using computers for the studying and learning process, as well as using the internet to facilitate studying and learning, assign any tasks or homework to students by using internet facilities as an online learning method. Moreover, the smart school's system also helps manage various operations, for example security and the school's administration. However, a smart school does not just use ICT to change the learning process or only use computers for teaching, but also includes teaching and learning through digital learning media. This includes various aspects of management, security management for stakeholders in the schools, managing various basic matters, managing policies and managing the personal information of every group in the school. From past research, a framework has not yet appeared, which relates to all working process systems of the development of the digital smart school concept. Therefore, this research article aims to present the framework and design a digital smart schools’ framework that has integrated and connected the working process systematically.