Home-campus nexus: The shift to homebased smart e-learning

This article outlines the trajectory of China's higher education and its strategy of pioneering a brand-new smart e-learning environment that has functionally molded China into a hybrid educational hub. This paper chronicles the almanac of China's offline campus education, depicting how it technologically evolved into an e-learning home-campus nexus. A sequential mixed-methods design was employed to shed light on students' readiness levels toward China's newly implemented smart e-learning platform for tertiary education. The psychometric analyses of the Smart e-Learning Questionnaire and other parametric statistical tests were performed using the Rasch measurement model. Overall, there is strong evidence to suggest that the in-depth qualitative interviews captured more nuanced accounts of the participants' perceived reasons for their moderate level of readiness towards their novel home-campus e-learning course delivery. Evacuated campuses and virtual lessons have become the cliched representation of this pandemic. It is critical that elearning offerings be contextualised in practical ways to invigorate equitable teaching strategies that can improve e-learning and support the success of China's higher education learning model for the post-pandemic agendum.

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This article outlines China's trajectory in higher education and its strategy in creating a smart e-learning environment. The study examines students' readiness toward the newly implemented e-learning platform and finds that qualitative interviews provide more nuanced insights into students' perspectives.