Digitalized Campus

Under the direct management of the university and carried out by the Center of Information and Network with coordinated efforts from all departments, the project of digitalized campus of Sun Yat-sen University is the construction of a network and information-sharing platform that covers the whole university, a university-wide digitalized management, learning and environmental system.
Using the advanced national and international experience for reference and after thorough study and reasoning, the University raised a scheme with distinctive features for its construction of digitalized campus. The scheme has clear guiding thoughts, comprehensive targets, construction tenets that are suitable to the development of the university and appropriate fundamental principals.

The guiding thoughts are: “one, two, three, four and five”:
“One core”—taking the construction of digitalized information resources and their applications as the core;
“Two focuses”—taking the digitalized learning and school management systems as the focuses;
“Three concentrations”—putting all the data, equipment and application in a concentrated place;
“Four features”—the conceptual feature, project feature, standardization feature and cultural feature;
“Five unifications”—unified databases, unified standards, unified development platform, unified user management, and unified gates.
Construction targets
The whole project will be enforced in two phases, the first phase will focus on the construction and application of digitalized environment, digitalized management and digitalized learning system, the second phase will lay emphasis on the construction and application of the digitalized research and living systems while perfecting the construction of the first phase.
According to overall arrangement, the first phase will be completed by the end of 2004 when Sun Yat-sen University celebrates its eightieth anniversary.

Achievements that signify completion of the project include:
The completed database center:
The center consists of high-performance server, very large storage system, security backup, core system software as well as databases, gate system, certification system and application and development platform for secondary software.
This will be the heart of the construction of digitalized campus. The completion of the database center will provide a unified platform for information processing, a platform that offers the basic, shared and unified system for realizing the concentrations of data, equipment and applications.
The completed video conference system:
This system is used for administrative video meetings among different campuses and interactive synchronized or asynchronized teaching. Video conferences and teaching videos can be broadcast synchronically on the campus network or the cable TV network, and the videos and courseware can be clipped open on the intranet as needed.
The campus card system:
A new campus card system will come into being that combines the applications of the card with university management, digitalized learning and living systems on the basis of the first-phase campus card that has already had financial function and parts of the management functions.
The university administrative system:
The launching of a new university administrative system, which includes two core application systems of OA and MIS and is built on unified platform and technical route, will provide the faculty and students with “one-station” service, embodying the idea and concept that management is service.
The erudition project:
The erudition project of education technology focuses on resources and teacher training, carries out experiments on applications in education, and hastens the process of school education informationalization, so as to promote the modernization of education. It is an important component of the digitalized campus project to carry out the “erudition project of education technology”, a vital measure to realize digitalized learning and education informalization in the University.
The unfolding of the project will be contributive to the forming of a new mode of teaching and learning, and helpful to gather together a team of teachers who meet the needs of education reforms in the new century and are familiar with conducting teaching activities in the network environment. It is necessary for teachers to receive training in educational applications of information technology, to change their concepts of teaching and learning, to learn the skills in applying information technology in teaching and learning and the methods of design based on the network environment, and to master and use the theory and skills of digitalized teaching and learning. At the same time, we should also bring up a batch of creative talents who meet the needs of the time and are good at independent or cooperative and exchange learning in the network environment.
The digitalized learning system:
Through construction of an advanced, general and international network education environment, the teachers and students on different campuses of the University can meet on the net, thus solving problems such as shortage of teachers, etc. The system can also integrate, manage and make use of the teaching resources of various specialties in the University, pushing ahead the education reform and the process of informalization, and strengthening the academic exchanges with other institutes of higher education in the nation and foreign universities. It can attract more foreign scholars to lecture in the University, making it more competitive in internationalization of education.