Ruijie launches the new generation of smart classroom "A Good Class" to activate education informatization 2.0

On April 2, Ruijie Networks held a new product launch conference in Beijing and officially launched the Ruijie Smart Classroom Solution, which directly addresses the pain points of teaching applications. It fully absorbs the normalized teaching needs of higher education and general education classrooms, and based on the changes in scenarios, it launched two major solutions tailored to the characteristics of higher education and general education, fully supporting the new changes in classroom teaching models with "extremely simple applications + rich functions".

Educational informatization 2.0: new challenges for classroom reform

With the Ministry of Education issuing the "Education Informatization 2.0 Action Plan" and the continuous integration of technology and education, the era of relying on a piece of chalk to explain everything will no longer exist. Facing the accelerated arrival of the 2.0 era, as participants in educational informatization, we can't help but think about what opportunities and challenges the 2.0 era will bring? What changes should be made?

At the new product launch conference on April 2, Meng Liang, general manager of Ruijie Networks' Smart Classroom Division, said: "Informatization 2.0 focuses more on 'integration and practical use, and pays attention to value and effect.' How to deeply integrate teaching applications with teaching and make them simple and easy to use will be a common challenge faced by schools and education informationization companies. Good education informationization products are not only auxiliary tools for teachers' teaching, but also an important part of a good class. They can truly solve the pain points of schools and teachers, and have functions that are deeply in line with teaching methods and simplified and convenient operations to meet the diverse needs of users."

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Picture: Meng Liang, General Manager of Ruijie Networks Smart Classroom Division

Ruijie's smart classroom solution was born in this future-oriented and far-reaching context, aiming to cultivate students' creative thinking and innovation, real problem-solving ability, teamwork and collaboration ability, promote the construction of new smart learning space, and create a new student-centered teaching model. At the same time, Ruijie has launched customized personalized solutions based on the changes in classroom teaching scenarios in higher education and general education.

"Learner-centered" to meet the diverse needs of colleges and universities

In order to cultivate innovative talents for the future, the new higher education teaching model needs to be supported by a new learning environment. In this regard, Ruijie Smart Classroom is based on constructivism theory and takes the PST framework (Pedagogy-Space-Technology) as its design concept. It innovatively proposes a 5C (construction, communication, connection, collaboration, creation) learning environment to achieve a deep integration of learning space, information technology and education and teaching, and support innovation in teaching methods.

Figure: Ruijie Smart Classroom 5C Learning Environment

Ruijie's higher education smart classroom solution has a series of advantages and features that are different from other products on the market, such as new learning space design, full-scenario teaching applications, and a minimalist IT environment. In terms of space changes, it is more adaptable to a variety of innovative teaching modes. It not only supports formal learning spaces, but can also be distributed in independent learning areas such as libraries and teaching building corridors, so that classroom space can truly achieve "change on demand and ready to use". In addition, in order to achieve normalized teaching support, the overall solution adopts a minimalist architecture, and through the one-button control function, teachers can easily use the basic environment of collaboration, interaction, display and IoT devices.

Figure: Various space designs fully support teaching activities and teaching strategies

At the same time, the interactive teaching system of Ruijie Smart Classroom is course-centered, adopts a process-free, socialized design, supports multiple teaching modes such as TBL (group cooperative learning), PBL (project-based learning), inquiry-based learning and blended learning, connects teachers and students, and connects before, during and after class, helping teachers and students improve classroom teaching efficiency and effectiveness.

Xia Shan, a teacher at Chengdu Normal University, said: "In my understanding, a smart classroom can recreate the processes before, during and after class, and use functions such as 'word cloud' and 'discussion wall' to cover the entire process of teaching application design. For teachers, the most important point of this solution provided by Ruijie is that they do not need to learn and can use it directly, so they can devote all their energy to teaching itself."

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Figure: Ruijie Smart Classroom - Classroom scene in colleges and universities

Interactive class: leaving primary and secondary school teachers and students "unsatisfied"

Under the background of the new curriculum, ordinary primary and secondary schools have comprehensively promoted classroom reform, and the group cooperative learning method has not only been widely promoted, but also won the favor of teachers and students. Group cooperative learning can fully exert the enthusiasm of the group, improve the learning motivation and ability of individuals, and achieve the purpose of completing specific teaching tasks. At the same time, the normalization of this method has changed the situation where teachers monopolize the information source of the entire classroom and students are in a passive position, thereby stimulating students' initiative and creativity.

Figure: The application of "Love Classroom" runs through every teaching link

The general education version of the smart classroom solution is designed around the entire process of group cooperative learning. With "Love Classroom" as the platform, it integrates minimalist applications, teacher-student interaction, and student-student interaction throughout the entire process of "before, during, and after class." In the classroom, the teacher uses Ruijie's "Love Classroom Interactive Teaching System" as the core and cooperates with the use of student feedback devices to achieve simple and practical classroom instant interactive teaching and feedback. At the same time, the system can also automatically and completely record the interactive data generated in the classroom in the classroom report as a data source and accumulation for learning situation analysis, providing a strong impetus for the continuous development of students and the continuous optimization of the classroom.

Zhou Juan, a Chinese teacher at Jiujiang Primary School in Shuangliu District, Chengdu, said: "What I feel the best is the classroom scoring incentive. This allows group cooperation to be carried out effectively. If the child who is drawn answers correctly, the child will get extra points, and the group will also get extra points, which enhances the cohesion of the group. Timely scoring incentives and timely feedback of the teacher's evaluation of the child to the child make the children more willing to learn and cooperate. At the same time, classroom scoring is closely linked to classroom teaching interaction, which makes the classroom a powerful autonomous learning space, allowing children to truly become the masters of learning."

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Figure: Ruijie Smart Classroom - Students press the feedback button to answer questions

Comprehensively support classroom teaching and help teachers and students have a good class

The introduction of information products into the classroom is just a beginning. The development and actual conditions of each region and each school are different. Before they are put into use, there is a difficult process of adjustment between users and products. To this end, Ruijie's product designers are stationed in schools, focusing on the common needs and differences of higher education and general education, so that each function can better serve the classroom, and thus won the praise of users.

Excessive pursuit of "quality" or even "performance" is not the direction of development of educational informatization. How to combine teaching methods, truly design products from the perspective of students and teachers, and let "a good class" come to us is an important topic that needs to be considered in the construction of smart classrooms.