Experimental Center for Educational Information Technology , Shenzhen University was established in 2007. It became the Guangdong Province teaching quality and teaching reform project construction project in 2017. The Center aims to cultivate the support practice-oriented teacher skills for normal university students and the information technology literacy. It adheres to the student-centered, project-driven, open and sharing concepts, provides advanced experimental environment for educational technology equipment, digital media technology, network engineering and maker education, and provides innovative platform services for open experiments, discipline competitions, maker projects, and technology research.

 

Experimental Center Architecture

Experimental Center for Educational Information Technology

(1)Educational Network Engineering Laboratory

1. Network Engineering Lab (Cloud Computing Experimental Platform、Campus Network Experimental Platform、Network Security Experimental Platform) 2. Educational Software Application Lab (Rain Classroom) 3.AI Education Lab (Big Data Experimental Platform、AI Experimental Platform、AI Teaching Aids)

(2) Digital Media Technology Laboratory

1. Virtual Studio Lab 2. Network TV Lab 3. Digital Photography Lab

(3) Maker Education Laboratory

1. Virtual Reality Technology Lab 2. Interactive Media Lab (3D Printing and 3D Scanning、Intelligent Robots、Wearable Devices、Programmable Intelligent Hardware)

(4) Educational Technology Equipment Laboratory

1. Teaching Training Lab 2. Future Education Lab 3. Mixed Reality Teaching Lab

(5) Teacher Education Training Laboratory

Microclassroom 2. Language Skills Training and Testing Lab 3. Writing Skills Training Lab、Distance Teaching Observation Lab

Educational Network Engineering Laboratory

The laboratory aims at cultivating professional and technical talents in the field of educational software and network engineering. It is equipped with campus network facilities such as routers and next-generation information technology experiment platforms such as cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, mainly supporting courses such as digital campus planning and implementation, cloud computing development and application, big data analysis and application, and introduction to artificial intelligence. The lab also focuses on training students in the field of computer network, information security, artificial intelligence professional technical ability and educational application of practical ability.

 

Network Engineering Lab

Campus network training platform

The platform is consisted with routers, switches, firewalls, wireless AP and controllers, servers, PC, network engineering equipment and so on. It includes 8 groups of campus network interconnection models.

Cloud computing experimental platform

It uses server farms to build cloud operating system environments such as VMware, OpenStack, Citrix, and Nutanix hyper-converged, and supports various cloud service technologies such as cloud backup, cloud monitoring, dual-system hot backup, load balancing, and cloud storage.

Network security experimental platform based on cloud platform

With the aCloud of Sangfor, we design system installation and configuration, business architecture design, user environment configuration, network security application practice courses (next generation firewall operation and maintenance configuration, online behavior management system operation and maintenance configuration, SSL VPN operation and maintenance configuration, etc.), operation and maintenance, fault handling, backup and image management and other practical teaching cases.

Main support courses: computer network, digital campus planning and implementation, network security technology, cloud computing development and application

Educational Software Application Lab

The micro-course production system was constructed by using the micro-course resource management server and the front-end acquisition camera. The experimental environment for the development and design of educational software was constructed by the streaming media server, CD copier and PC.

Main support courses: Web application and website design, network database, rich media programming, object-oriented programming, database principle, network programming practice, teaching resource design, digital image processing technology, streaming media and network courses, etc.

 

AI Education Lab

With the aCloud of Sangfor, we design practical teaching cases of system big data practice courses (Hadoop technology, Apache Kafka technology, HBase distributed NoSQL database, distributed data warehouse technology and application, Flink big data processing technology, etc.).

We use AI-specific computing to support AI curriculum experiments.

We use artificial intelligence teaching AIDS to support the content experiment of artificial intelligence education curriculum.

Main support courses: Big data analysis and application, Introduction to artificial intelligence

Digital Media Technology Laboratory

With the goal of cultivating professional and technical talents in the direction of digital media, the lab is equipped with advanced equipment such as virtual studio, network TV, audio and video workstations, and is gradually realizing an all-media experimental teaching system integrating film and television media production technology application and network technology application, mainly supporting courses such as TV director and production, digital TV production and broadcast, photography technology and art foundation, etc. Through making digital media works and participating in college students' computer competitions, students' digital media design and production ability and creative thinking are improved.

 

Network TV Lab

The broadcast system includes: broadcast control system, broadcast guide system, large screen display system, network transmission system, satellite TV system, PC terminal, IPAD terminal, mobile phone terminal, etc.

The festival system includes: studio live broadcast, classroom teaching live broadcast, remote video broadcast, mobile phone live broadcast, satellite TV broadcast, terrestrial TV broadcast, student works recording, film and television festival recording.

Main support courses: mathematics TV production and broadcasting, TV editing and production, film and television recording production, graduation design production of this course, graduate project research production.

Virtual Studio Lab

The virtual studio experimental platform is consisted of blue boxes, light background, HD cameras and heads, camera finders, 3D model rendering machines, inscriptions, focal sets, synchro, digital color key devices. The digital television broadcast system is consisted of high-definition TV, audio and video workstations.

Main support courses: digital TV production and broadcasting, digital media theory and technology, information teaching, TV directing and production.

Maker Education Laboratory

The lab provides a maker space for students to create, innovate and start businesses. It equipped with the virtual reality 3D ring screen, high-performance graphics workstation, VR headset, data glove, motion sensing equipment, 3D printer and other advanced maker equipment, mainly support virtual reality basics and applications, 3D computer animation, maker education and other courses. It focuses on guiding students to practice innovation through creative prototype, product iteration and project incubation.

Virtual Reality Technology Lab

The lab includes the ring screen, stereoscopic projection, three-channel digital image fusion machine, video matrix, virtual reality application server, virtual reality system, graphics workstation, virtual reality helmet, virtual reality data glove and other components of the leading technology, diversified virtual reality scene.

 

Main support courses: Fundamentals and applications of virtual reality, 3D computer animation, etc.

 

Interactive Media Lab

The lab includes intelligent robots, 3D printers, laser cutting machines, VR glasses, drones, Arduino intelligent hardware, digital hand-painted boards, etc. They are all technology leading, suitable for students to achieve the creativity and creativity. They are equipment and facilities of intelligent creation and maker projects.

Main support courses: maker education, 3D printing, information teaching, etc.

Pic The HoloLens 2 and the DJI drone

Pic Smart robots and 3D printers

Pic Programmable intelligent hardware

Pic BCI EEG headband and Kinect somatosensory devices

Digital Photography Lab

 

This lab includes Nikon digital SLR cameras, Canon digital SLR cameras, indoor photography lighting, photography background, reflectors, tripods, metering pens and other professional photography equipment.

 

Main support courses: Photography technology and art foundation, travel photography, etc.

Educational Technology Equipment Laboratory

The lab is equipped with multimedia teaching equipment such as video display stands, high-definition cameras, laser projectors, live broadcast acquisition terminals, and intelligent hardware such as intelligent robots and interactive data acquisition systems. It mainly supports courses such as information teaching, intelligent robots, user experience design, and mobile application design. It focuses on guiding students to understand and master modern educational technology and equipment. It can make use of good interactive environment to learn more actively and improve the teaching ability in the information teaching environment.

 

Teaching Training Lab

 

With the video display table, projector and other video equipment components to simulate the platform central control system, students can master the use of the platform central control system through teaching experiments. Lego EV3 robot components are used to build smart robots that can complete certain functional commands. Students can learn to build models, design programs, test programs, and complete projects through experiments.

The smart robot teaching environment is constructed by including robot sets and competition venues, sensors, aerial photography aircraft, etc. The 3D design teaching environment is constructed by 3D printers and 3D scanners, and the intelligent hardware education development and design environment is constructed by EEG sensors, handheld ECG monitors, portable ECG pulse acquisition devices, interactive data acquisition devices, etc.

Main support courses: information teaching, smart robots, etc.

Future Education Lab

The future classroom is a new type of classroom with remote interactive teaching, including live broadcast software system, display system, blackboard writing system, sound reinforcement system, control system, lighting system and other multi-functional systems. Classroom 303 can complete interactive teaching in groups. Between classroom 303 and classroom 306, live broadcast acquisition terminal, remote teaching terminal, high-definition camera, multi-channel audio processor and other devices can be used to complete joint teaching and interactive discussion. When the teacher is teaching in one of the classrooms, the teaching scene and computer content can be transmitted synchronously to the listening classroom; At the same time, teachers can see the situation of students in the classroom through other display devices beside them; The students who are in the classroom can watch the teaching scene through the projection screen; When there is a need for communication and interaction, the two rooms can be interchangeable, and both can realize the function of lecturing or listening to lectures, and realize the switch between the functions of anchors and listeners. Room 303 provides remote teaching function, you can watch the teaching content through the micro Reliance time.

Major supported courses: Undergraduate courses include operating systems, digital television and broadcasting, user experience design, and mobile application design. Graduate students have online education research, advanced network technology, and methods of collecting and analyzing educational data.

Classroom 303

Classroom 306

Mixed Reality Teaching Lab

The lab includes the capture camera for the realization of 3D motion capture system, multi-camera image acquisition and detection system, clothing for auxiliary 3D motion capture, and teaching and practice to assist VR, MR, animation and other auxiliary creation; It also includes mixed reality glasses for development and testing of mixed reality applications, and computer hardware and software environment for design.

Main support courses: 3D computer animation, student innovation experiment project, graduation design, etc.