Students` Perception of Smart Learning in Distance Higher Education

The purpose of this research is to analyze students` perception of smart learning focusing on its definitions, roles and values in distance higher education. In the online survey, 1,950 students of `A` open university were participated. The results show that the students viewed the smart learning to be more `absorbing`, `interactive` and `collaborative` than the existing e-learning, as it compiles their experiences into learning. However, the respondents` perceptions of smart learning varied among different age groups: more students in their 40s and 50s responded that smart learning was `customized`, `humanlike`, `interactive`, `comfortable`, `stable`, `familiar`, `unstressful`, and `practical` than students in their 20s and 30s, and they tend to view the main feature of smart learning to be the compilation of learner experiences.