Smart education, as the advanced stage of educational informatization, is becoming an important direction of global educational reform.This paper analyzes the current situation of China’s education informatization level and the development of smart education, and expounds the problems and challenges in the integration of software and hardware, platform resource sharing, teacher informatization training system, and regulations and systems for educational data security in promoting smart education reform in colleges and universities. It proposes five measures to promote the high-quality development of smart education: establishing national standards for the integration of smart education hardware and software to improve equipment utilization, constructing a co-construction and sharing mechanism for smart education resources to reduce platform resources duplication, carrying out research on smart education methods and theories to promote the innovation of smart teaching models, improving the teacher capability development system and perfecting the smart education guarantee mechanism, formulating education data security protection specifications and establishing a full-process supervision system to prevent smart education risks.