Springer Smart Education Innovations from China: New Stage, New Standards, New Pathways (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)

As artificial intelligence reshapes education worldwide, educators are experimenting with new approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment. This volume documents how these innovations are being implemented across China, providing evidence from real-world practice rather than policy alone. China has responded with remarkable ambition and institutional coherence. Yet policy architecture is only as real as the practices it generates. This volume exists because those practices exist ― in extraordinary variety, in unexpected places, and at a depth that policy documents alone cannot convey. Under the guidance of the Department of Science, Technology and Informatization of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the organizing committee of the Global Smart Education Conference and the Ministry's Education Informatization Strategic Research Bases (Beijing, Central China, Northwest) solicited outstanding smart education cases in 2025, carefully selecting 1,008 cases from across every province of the country. The chapters synthesized from that corpus span four categories: regional development initiatives documenting how provinces and districts have built sustainable smart education ecosystems; school-level practices capturing classroom innovation and new pedagogical models; technology solution cases in which enterprises demonstrate AI platforms and intelligent tools deployed at scale; and research outcomes in which academic institutions contribute new theory, comparative analysis, and policy recommendations. Rather than presenting smart education as a finished achievement, this volume captures an evolving process of innovation, experimentation, and reflection. It offers China's experience as a contribution to the global conversation on educational transformation, framed by the "3N" vision of a New Stage of smart education, New Standards for talent cultivation, and New Pathways toward high-quality educational development.