Towards the future of education: cyber-physical learning

摘要

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is embarking on an educational innovation program called SUTD campusX to support its future of education. SUTD campusX aims to innovate new educational models, technology tools, and pedagogies for a new form of learning called “Cyber-Physical Learning”, where the concept is that both remote cyber students and face-to-face physical students can learn and interact effectively, seamlessly, and synchronously in the same class. SUTD campusX focuses on various streams of emerging technologies such as learning analytics, immersive technologies (e.g., AR/VR/MR, metaverse learning, gamification), telepresence robotics, and personalized learning. SUTD campusX supports and innovates the signature interdisciplinary, student-centric, and team-based problem-solving active learning model of SUTD to transform it for the cyber-physical learning environment. The various innovation streams of campusX not only generate insightful learning data to create new educational frameworks and practices but also enable a learning analytics and AI-assisted platform to deliver personalized adaptive learning. In this perspective article, we describe and reflect on the forward-looking nature of the various innovation themes and how these innovations act as the front-facing technologies to collect and generate learning insights to power an AI-driven cyber-physical learning platform to realize the future of Cyber-Physical Learning at SUTD.