Research and development of education support system activating interactions between a teacher and students

摘要

Traditional lectures so far have been based on face-to-face (or direct) communications between a teacher and students and have tended to become one-sided from a teacher and low mutual communications. It is specifically true in Japan where there has been little custom of a debate. This situation is not so much improved at moment and the fundamental form of lectures are still not changed although lots of IT apparatus have already been introduced to the classroom. In this paper, we propose a new education support system and show results of its evaluation. We introduce new communication channels such as a cellular phone and VOD system to the classroom and implement several functions to activate interactions between a teacher and students; i.e. monitoring of student's situation, student's understanding improvement, opinion exchange activation and so on. Through the practical use in lectures it is confirmed that the system works effectively.