Editor's note: On May 12, China Education News featured an article titled "Promoting Digital Education Ecological Transformation: Hubei Builds a New Intelligent Education Environment" on its front page, which highlighted Central China Normal University's (CCNU) "Xiaoya Platform". An excerpt is reprinted as follows:
Creating a Dynamic Classroom in the Intelligent Era
In Associate Professor Ling Chen's Aerobics Teaching and Training class at Central China Normal University (CCNU), students wear VR motion-capture devices to perform a series of complex routines. Beside them, the Xiaoya teaching platform provides real-time movement analysis and panoramic displays of their techniques, significantly improving teaching efficiency.
The platform supports intelligent lesson design, pre-class task distribution, in-class digital integration, and post-class data-driven feedback. Developed by CCNU, Xiaoya is a cloud-based SPOC platform that fosters an intelligent learning environment through features like course knowledge mapping, AI-powered Q&A, and personalized recommendations. It enables data-driven teaching, learning, assessment, and management, and has been adopted by multiple universities.
Beyond the Xiaoya platform, Hubei province is advancing digital education across all levels. In basic education, it's developing human-computer collaborative teaching models and intelligent evaluation systems while expanding digital classroom applications. For vocational education, the province has established 57 virtual simulation training platforms, including 4 national demonstration bases, through its Digital Industry-Education Integration Community initiative. In higher education, Hubei is accelerating digital economy disciplines and building an innovative talent training system to deepen the integration of intelligent technologies throughout education.
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