China is accelerating its push for "Smart Campuses" through the use of artificial intelligence and big data technology to monitor and analyse classroom behaviour and teaching patterns of both students and teachers in real time.
The surveillance systems track everything from school attendance and classroom participation to students' concentration levels and attentiveness during lessons.
According to a report by HKEPC, the smart school initiative began in 2018 under the Chinese Ministry of Education’s “Education Informatisation 2.0” policy. Initially focusing on facial recognition systems for school and dormitory access, the project has since evolved into full-scale AI monitoring within classrooms. HKEPC is a Chinese tech review and hardware information site.
