ICS 2012 - The 2012 International Symposium on The Intelligent Campus (IC12)

The 2012 International Symposium on The Intelligent Campus (IC12)
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Theme: Intelligent Educational Environments for the Next Generation
The educational landscape is changing; some have termed it as the “climate change” in education. The students of today engage with the learning environment differently from the students of yesterday. The traditional landscape is often perceived as “formal”, “passive”, “direct”, and “push” learning environment designed largely for the knowledge consumers; and the modern landscape is often perceived as “informal”, “active”, “collaborative”, “social”, and “pull” learning environment designed not only for the knowledge consumers but also for the knowledge creators. The attempt to redefine the educational landscape has gathered a lot of interests in the recent years to create and/or adapt the education environments for the 21st century. Various terms, such as “School 2.0 Architecture”, “Virtual Campus”, “Education 3.0”, “Edutainment”, “Hyperconnected Learner”, “mLearning”, and many others, have since been coined to signify and describe this paradigm shift in the campus environment.
To keep up with the changing landscape, this year International iCampus Symposium 2012 (IC’12) will address the various topic-of-interests with regard to the next generation intelligent campus environment. A new paradigm of thinking pertaining to a holistic intelligent campus (iCampus) environment will also be discussed which encompasses (but is not limited to) several pillars of campus intelligence, such as iLearning, iSocial, iGreen, iHealth, iManagement, and iGovernance. The aim of the symposium is to gather like-minded individuals, online or onsite, to share and discuss as well as be informed of the current frontiers of research in this domain. The idea here is thus to encourage different insights and perspectives, and more importantly, to foster cross-collaboration and networking, in the various areas of interest within the domain.
An international iCampus initiative will also be presented in the event to invite feedbacks or contributions. All interested participants are welcome to join us in this year International Symposium on the Intelligent Campus (iCampus) to be hosted within the 2012 World Intelligence Congress.