Digital Transformation Application Summit for Higher Education

Grasping the New Trend of Digital Transformation in Higher Education

Wu Yonghe, who is a researcher at East China Normal University and the chairman of both the Education Technology Sub-Technical Committee of the National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee and the Education Informatization Technology Standard Committee of the Ministry of Education, along with Zhang Wei, who is the vice chairman of the Education Informatization Branch of the Chinese Higher Education Society and a professor at Dalian University of Technology, and Liu Zhongdong, the general manager of Ruijie Networks, delivered a welcome speech at the forum.

According to Wu Yonghe, the chairman of the Education Informatization Technology Standards Committee of the Ministry of Education, the first priority in the digital construction of education is to establish a foundation for the high-quality development of higher education. At the current phase, it is crucial to implement the strategic action of education digitization, and the standard committee will collaborate with scholars, experts, and enterprises to develop and promote digital education standards for teachers and students, facilitating the digital transformation of education. This summit forum serves as a platform to share innovative practical achievements in digital transformation with universities, promoting the exchange of experiences, ideas, and concepts.
Zhang Wei, Vice President of the Education Informatization Branch of the Chinese Society of Higher Education, emphasized that digital transformation is not simply about building new infrastructure, but also involves innovating and changing management thoughts, education concepts, teaching methods, and talent training models. It is a comprehensive digital process that impacts all aspects of education. He urged education informatization professionals to seize the opportunity and work with a sense of urgency and responsibility to accelerate the digitization of education. Liu Zhongdong, the General Manager of Ruijie Networks, expressed his gratitude to the experts, teachers, the Education Informatization Technology Standards Committee of the Ministry of Education, and the Education Informatization Branch of the China Higher Education Society for their continuous support in promoting school-enterprise cooperation. Ruijie Networks has been working closely with experts and teachers to deeply understand and study the service needs of teachers and students in colleges and universities, integrate information technology and digitalization with college and university applications, and create products and solutions that are essential and easy-to-use to the users.
Demand-Driven Innovative Solutions for High-Quality Digital Development of Education

Huang Zhen, General Manager of the Higher Vocational Education Industry Department of Ruijie Networks, gave a keynote presentation on "Digital Campus, On-Demand Service". Ruijie has served the field of education informatization for more than 20 years, and the related product and solutions have been evolving and upgrading according to changing demands and goals of campus business. There are still some challenges in the current digital transformation of higher education: unstable network infrastructure, digital gap between data and decision-making, lack of coverage of personalized scenarios in informatization and education, and great variance of information literacy of teachers and students between regions and schools. In the future, Ruijie will continue to serve the escalating needs of higher education development in the digital era through different innovative solutions at three levels: basic network services, education and teaching, and management services.
 
The simplified optical campus network solution builds a solid base for digital campus construction and unleashes the innovative vitality of digital campus. Ruijie's Simplified Optical Ethernet Solution has evolved over the past three years to build a solid digital foundation for institutions and a truly passive campus network with lossless bandwidth. Ruijie Networks' Three-Engine 2.0 Cloud Desktop Solution delivers "one cloud for the whole campus", featuring efficiency, all-scenario adaptability, and simplified O&M. The innovative Three-Engine 2.0 solution improves user experience through high-performance and cost-effective GPUs, and serves the evolving smart campus with an on-demand cloud.

Ruijie Smart Classroom solution addresses the challenges of the borderless teaching trend and redefines the standard of smart classroom construction. The all-over-IP architecture, through the intelligent IP engine, native IP streaming cloud screen and IP streaming audio solution, significantly simplifies equipment deployment and cabling, reduces construction wiring costs, and brings teachers a more simple and senseless teaching operation experience, which creates a next-generation smart classroom digital base for institutions. In terms of management, Ruijie responds to the challenges of IT operation and maintenance under digital transformation by transforming process management, operation and maintenance technology and skills, turning passivity into initiative and achieving a benign transformation for the management and maintenance of digital campuses.

Excellent Cases of "Digital Campus Construction Specifications for Higher Education Institutions (for Trial Implementation)

Under the guidance of the "Digital Campus Construction Standards for Higher Education Institutions (for Trial Implementation)" (hereinafter referred to as "the Standards"), each institution has made innovative exploration in accordance based on their own development status. Zheng Li, Secretary General of Education Technology Sub-Technical Committee of National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee and Education Information Technology Standard Committee of the Ministry of Education, Du Jing, Deputy Director General of the Committee, and Huang Zhen, General Manager of Higher Vocational Education Department of Ruijie Networks, awarded 41 colleges and universities with good experience and distinctive features in the digital campus construction practice. Six informationization practice experts and leaders from Sichuan University, Chongqing University, Zhejiang University, Southwest University, Jiangnan University and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications made excellent case sharing of digital campus construction, which provided a role model and inspiration to drive the digital construction of education and promote the high-quality development of higher education.

Cui Yaqiang, Deputy Director of Information Construction and Management Office of Sichuan University, introduced the achievements and experiences in the construction of optical campus network. Sichuan University set up a dedicated work group under the guidance of relevant policies as the platform and the actual problems of campus optical network construction as the traction. After determining the goal of optical network construction, the university made innovative breakthroughs of "Ethernet all-optical" and "5G converged campus network", which doubled the capacity of campus network and greatly improved the signal coverage, delivering premium user experience in the "one classroom per person" in the student dormitory under the epidemic.
The Information Technology Office of Chongqing University provides unique insights on how to break the data barriers in the smart campus so that the data elements can truly drive campus digitalization. The Information Technology Office of Chongqing University continuously strengthens the business capacity of the core software infrastructure to grasp the essence of smart campus, so that the digital construction can provide convenience for teachers and students, reference for management decisions, and insight for leapfrogging changes in campus business.
Chen Wenzhi, director of Zhejiang University Information Technology Center, shared the construction ideas and achievements of Zhejiang University's reform from informationization to digitalization. Since the launch of the construction of "Online Zhejiang University" in 2017, Zhejiang University has continued to consolidate the digital infrastructure of cloud, network, data and terminals. It promotes five major space innovations, including education and teaching space, modern governance space, research and innovation space, and discipline development space, to provide world-class information services for all teachers and students of the university. In the upgrade of education and teaching space, digitalization is used to create a whole-link integrated teaching and innovation system centered on student growth. Their efforts have paid off in teaching model innovation driven by digitalization. The digital reform of "small opportunity, big scene" has supported the whole process from enrollment, process training, graduation and employment, from undergraduate to graduate students.
Xia Dafei, Deputy Director of Information Technology Construction Office of Southwest University, gave a report on the past, present, and future of the network construction of Southwest University, based on the changes of technology applications in the vertical technology development. He suggested that the digital campus can be truly on-demand only when the flexible network deployment application is implemented. From a problem-oriented perspective, Deputy Director Xia Dafei analyzed the problems of "network speed needs to be strengthened, network construction lags behind application demand, lack of coordination of private network, and 5G access experience needs to be improved" in the current technology and service bridging, and gave a proposal of "two networks "(5G private network + campus optical network) and adopt the strategy of "four convergence".
Zhang Xin, Director of Experiment Center of School of IOT Engineering, Jiangnan University, shared the experience in exploring the application of cloud desktop in university labs. The construction of a cloud at Jiangnan University has improved the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching, learning and management. There are numerous personalized experimental scenarios in science and engineering courses that require on-demand adaptation. Through UWS + Augmented Reality, Jiangnan University has realized that resources are not constrained by time and space on campus, and labs carrying important scientific tasks can be run remotely during the epidemic. The digital foundation that changes on demand is supporting the goal of "Make learning accessible to everyone, anytime, and anywhere".
Zhang Peng, Deputy Director of Academic Affairs Office of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, gave insights on how to build a new model of linked and integrated smart classrooms. The smart classroom plays an optimal role in talent training. The university adopts the concept of "planning ahead, standards in front; demand-oriented, gather all the people; promote as one, play effective; combine advantages, play characteristics" in the smart classroom construction. In the process of promoting the construction of digital tools, digital methods and data means, we always keep in mind the essential issue of teaching: education technology should always serve the needs of education and lead the development of high-quality education.
On-Demand Service as Our Aspiration

Ruijie has been providing products and solutions tailored for the education market for more than 20 years, serving more than 2,600 higher education institutions, implementing education digitalization in every corner of the campus: building digital foundations that carry wisdom and diverse businesses, breaking the boundaries of knowledge; providing physical space for every lesson, so that everyone can learn from anywhere at any time; activating the value of data elements, breaking through barriers, and making digital governance become a wise and efficient decision-making reference for campus operation. In the future, Ruijie will continue to provide user-centric, easy-to-use solutions for teachers and students, to facilitate high-quality development of higher education.