The ontology of next generation smart classrooms

Abstract

Fast proliferation of various types of smart devices, smart systems, and smart technologies provides academic institutions, students and learners with enormous opportunities in terms of new approaches to learning technologies, education, learning processes and strategies, corporate training, user’s personal productivity and efficiency, and faster and better quality of services provided. This paper presents the developed ontology of Smart Classroom systems - it helps to understand and analyze current smart classroom systems, and identify features, hardware, software, services, pedagogy, teaching and learning-related activities of the next generation Smart Classroom systems.