Smart Education in Smart Cities: Layered Implications for Networked and Ubiquitous Learning

The development of smart cities worldwide is bringing about new processes and methods for enhancing teaching and learning in a networked age. As smart cities rely on analytics and digital capabilities to connect people and everyday activities so as to improve the quality of life, they can bring new layers of concerns for schools and educational institutions engaging the next-gen learning environment. Drawing from cases from around the world and specifically from developing smart cities, this paper calls attention to key implications of smart cities and smart education design on networked learning. We focus on layers of design ethics, data practices, roles, and delivery afforded by new learning infrastructures in smart cities, then proposing a “stack” analogy for designing ubiquitous learning.