Investigating the Effectiveness of the Internet Astronomical Observatory for Networking an Educational system

摘要

Various criticisms have been directed at the so-called information education to date. Most of such criticisms often only help confuse teachers as to how best to assist students in the acquisition of information processing skills. Nevertheless, some of them could serve as a useful guideline for enhancing the quality of education. In response to those criticisms, the present paper outlines the idea of using the internet astronomical observatory. In order to examine the effectiveness of this attempt on a pilot basis, a set of questionnaire was administered to a group of students of Akita University. The result revealed that the system would potentially be a promising way of overcoming various problems that have been identified in the area of conventional education in the field. An attempt was also made to improve the present program of the university by incorporating various views expressed in the questionnaire responses.