Abstract
This special issue is dedicated to recent opportunities, perceptions, solutions and expectations that the emergent number of cities, exploiting the Smart City concept, face in designing and providing education that is striving to shape the new generation of the Smart Citizens. Smart Cities are improving the interconnection between citizens and with governments paying regard to shaping a new environment for the education of today’s students for life in tomorrow’s multifaceted technology-driven world. Various definitions that evolved from Digital City through Wireless City to Smart City and recently Smart City of the Future make us aware that technology and infrastructures are the leading aspect of the Smart City concept. The Smart City concept embraces not only various definitions but also diverse directions representing a collection that conveys many opportunities for educational arrangements. Viewed in this way, it builds the focus of this special issue illustrating the utilization of technologies, and methodology design experiences toward a Smart City setting by considering a wide-range of education and human performance development aspects, including new opportunities for learning and instruction, technology-enhanced learning, curriculum reform, assessment, skills development, and competence and knowledge management in a highly interconnected networked environment.
Highlights
Cities are growing and increasingly suffering from rapid urbanization quickly taking pace with approximately 60% of the world population residing in urban and sub-urban regions, and demographic change (United Nations, 2014; MarketsandMarkets, 2014)
Various definitions that evolved from Digital City through Wireless City to Smart City and recently Smart City of the Future make us aware that technology and infrastructures are the leading aspect of the Smart City concept
This special issue of the Knowledge Management & E-Learning (KM&EL) International Journal is dedicated to revealing nontraditional approaches, and advanced methodical and technological solutions as well as forward looking curriculum design lines toward a Smart City development in terms of a wide-range of education and human performance aspects including new opportunities for individual learning and instruction, technology-enhanced learning, fast changing curriculum design, generation assessment, tailored knowledge and skills development, and profound competence management in a highly interconnected networked environment constituted around various stakeholders
Summary
Cities are growing and increasingly suffering from rapid urbanization quickly taking pace with approximately 60% of the world population residing in urban and sub-urban regions, and demographic change (United Nations, 2014; MarketsandMarkets, 2014). To take advantage of them, we must make sure that people are recognized as a driver for innovation generating a sustainable regional as well as universal competitive advantage for the enterprises, and that businesses and academia are willing and ready to modernize their approach to the citizens’ inclusion and immersion in education and services in the fast changing conditions of the global market (Klett & Wang, 2013) In connection with this requirement, it is not surprising that some researchers identify the level of human capital that the city’s inhabitants possess as a smartness rank criterion for cities (Langenfeld, 2015). We provide a variety of examples for specific Smart City actions, which draw a line between the local origin and the international significance, and help boost the value of technology to the cities’ environment in a systematic process that addresses the key challenge of Smart Cities, namely exploiting resources and improving inadequate infrastructures by covering societal needs, fostering education, and leading to a desired employment and high employability (Klett, 2013)
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