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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of online distance learning, bringing challenges such as learner isolation and decreased engagement. This paper explores strategies to address these issues through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. It reviews existing studies on learner isolation and proposes the integrat...
As technology progresses, there has been an increasing interest in using Chatbot GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) in education. Chatbot GPT, or ChatGPT, gained one million users within the first week of launching in November 2022 and had amassed over 100 million active users by February 2023. This type of artificial intelligence uses natura...
In this paper, I describe the challenges of introducing synchronicity in distance education in which the flexibility for students to learn anywhere and anytime has been most valued. With the wide diffusion of web conferencing systems such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become natural not only for tradi...
This study examined the media coverage of ChatGPT in the context of education in Japan and Malaysia. Through a thematic analysis of news articles, we identified and analyzed the dominant frames associated with the use of ChatGPT in education. The study found that the media predominantly framed the technology within three categories: pedagogical, et...
In this rapidly changing society, it has been widely acknowledged that education needs to happen continuously, lifelong and lifewide. The concept of lifelong learning is well established and the need for learning at many intervals throughout one’s life is well recognized. Lifewide learning refers to the learning which takes place in a variety of di...
The Open University of Japan (OUJ), established in 1983, has been offering a traditional teaching and learning system for more than 30 years based on its broadcasting programs, print materials, and study centers which are located nation-wide. However, the recent decline in student enrollment and the potential for online learning that is realized an...
An audio and video retrieval system that can search auto-recognized transcripts of lectures has been developed. A spoken term detection engine that can perform a fuzzy search are utilized to handle recognition errors, unknown words, and potential spelling variants. The developed retrieval system features playback functions that help users easily ju...
In this case study, the purpose is to clarify the characteristics of communication among teachers about the use of ICT through the analysis of cases of primary school where document cameras and computers are used on a daily basis. The results of interviews are depicted in a diagram called a communication flow regarding whom they ask and who is aske...
Distance education has often been discussed in terms of generations as its forms and methods have been evolved over years. Most often, generations of distance education has been discussed in terms of the dominant technologies it utilizes in teaching and learning. There has been another attempt to classify distance education into generations in term...
This paper discusses the application of Extensible Learning Environment with Courseware Object Architecture (ELECOA), an extensible learner-adaptive system, to a collaborative learning environment. ELECOA is designed to provide a learning environment supporting both function extensibility and content reusability. To achieve this goal, ELECOA introd...
It is expected nowadays to develop an e-learning system which provides the learning environment suitable for each individual learner's learning style. In this study, the authors developed a method to recommend courses that are suitable for a student. A student's course adaptability for a particular course can be estimated based on the result gained...
With the tools of social media, it is becoming increasingly popular to connect students in different countries in informal and formal educational settings for the purpose of foreign language learning as well as intercultural learning. Before the advent of social media, email exchanges and video conferencing were mainly used for similar purposes, bu...
This paper investigates how the three e-learning modes (traditional, room-based synchronous, and metaverse-based) affect the learners' learning preferences before and after completing the study. The authors found out that the students who took the rooom-based synchronous e-learning mode tended to show the low course adaptability overall while their...
In providing e-learning, it is desirable to build an environment that is suitable to the student's learning style. In this study, using the questionnaire to measure the student's preferences for asynchronous learning and the use of ICT in learning that has been develoed by authors, the relationship between the learning preferences of a student that...
One of the most talked about characteristics of the Internet as a new medium is interactivity. The term, interactivity, pops up in almost every article that discusses the Web. However, if you read those articles carefully, you'll notice that different people use the term, interactivity, quite differently. The paper attempts to clarify the meanings...
In designing e-learning, it is desirable that individual learner's learning style is considered. This study proposes a way to present the information about the expected adaptability of the course, in which a student wishes to enroll, based on the student's responses to the learning preference questionnaire administered at the beginning of the cours...
Web 2.0 tools and social networking approaches give unique opportunities for students across national borders to communicate and collaborate. They are especially suitable for fostering foreign language learning and intercultural understanding as well as 21st century skills as they give authentic learning for students to practice the above skills. T...
Japan is a technologically advanced country with a number of challenges being faced by distance education institutions. Applications of information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential to transform educational practices from teachercentred teaching to student-centred learning. However, few higher education institutions in Japan h...
This paper describes an investigation of the application of an extensible learner-adaptive system, Extensible Learning Environment with Courseware Object Architecture (ELECOA), to a collaborative learning environment. The design goal of ELECOA is to provide a flexible learning environment that ensures both function extensibility and content reusabi...
As a result of investigation on learning preferences and e-learning course adaptability among the students of full online
courses offered by a consortium of higher education institutions, it has been found that there is a relationship between the
two factors (the preference for asynchronous learning and that for the use of computer) in the learning...
In this study, a questionnaire on learning preferences was administered to students who were enrolled in e-learning courses offered by the collaborative project among several higher education institutions and we extracted factors in learning preferences. A strong correlation between the factor loadings (the preference for asynchronous learning and...
Japan is known to be a technological powerhouse, being noted for its automobiles, consumer electronics, laptop computers, portable gaming devices, and more recently healing animal robots. Japan is also noted for its popular culture; manga, anime, novels, films, character goods, game programs, cosplay cafes, karaoke and so on. It may be natural for...
Various Internet tools such as emails and discussion boards, and more recently those Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook, Skype, Slideshare, YouTube, and Flicker, make it possible to connect learners across languages and cultures in and outside classrooms. Such Internet-mediated intercultural exchange has been often experimented within the contex...
According to O’Dowd (2007), the first collaborative learning with distant partners dates back in the 1920s when French educationalist Celestin Freinet had his students publish a newspaper and exchange it with classes in other parts of the country. Since then, numerous studies and projects have been conducted connecting classes across countries for...
Application of an extensible learner-adaptive environment to implement the Learning Design specification is proposed. The design goal of the extensible learner-adaptive architecture is to provide a flexible learning environment that ensures both function extensibility as well as content reusability. The concept of a "courseware object," which is a...
This study investigated learning styles of students who had or had not taken e-learning courses, developed a learning style
questionnaire for e-learning courses, and examined the relationship between the learning style and the adaptability to e-learning
courses. As the result, the student’s adaptability of e-learning courses can be suggested befor...
Japanese distance education has been slow to utilize the Internet, and mainly depends on the mail system and, to a lesser extent, television broadcasting as its mode of delivery. Since 2001, however, regulations have been relaxed to allow students to complete all course requirements for a university degree via online distance learning. This paper r...
This paper discusses the status of web-based education implementation in Japanese higher education institutions. It discusses that web-based education has not been adopted by Japanese universities wholeheartedly despite the availability of a highly developed ICT infrastructure nationwide. The main reasons for such gap between technological availabi...
Japan and Korea have highly developed information and communications technology infrastructures and have recently reformed their higher education systems and encouraged e-transformation. However, Japanese universities have not embraced e-learning as wholeheartedly as their Korean counterparts. The paper concludes that this is due to governmental an...
This paper aims to share the outcomes of a qualitative survey on the status of e- learning implementation in Japanese higher education institutions. The research evidence is gathered through: 1). a literature survey related to e-learning in Japan, 2). analysis of the websites of the universities, 3). observations obtained during Tokyo e-Learning Wo...
Higher education institutions in Japan are facing unprecedented challenges today due to the following three factors:the decrease in the size of college age cohorts in the coming years; heightened expectations in the modes of instructional delivery through the advances of information and communication technologies (ICT); global competition for colle...
Cell phones are a pervasive new communication technology, especially among college students. This paper examines college students’ cell phone usage from a behavioral and psychological perspective. Utilizing both qualitative (focus groups) and quantitative (survey) approaches, the study suggests these individuals use the devices for a variety of pur...
Cell phones are a pervasive new communication technology today, especially among college students. This paper examines college students' cell phone usage from a behavioral and psychological perspective. Utilizing both qualitative (focus groups) and quantitative (survey) approaches, the study suggests these individuals use the devices for a variety...
The paper presents the characteristics and trends of the Internet and e-commerce in Japan. Then it discusses the results of a content analysis of the top 50 popular Web sites in U.S. and those in Japan conducted in November 1999 and May 2000. This study examines cultural differences in the use of the Web in each country and suggests strategies for...
As an archetype of convergence, Internet telephony has been questioning the continuing appropriateness of the current telecommunications policy and regulation. This article examines how policy makers and regulators in the US, the EU, Japan and Singapore have responded to the challenges brought about by Internet telephony. Their common approach seem...
The prevalence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in higher education has been transforming higher educational institutions in various degrees. There are a wide variety of terms indicating such phenomenon, ranging from "web-based instruction" and "online courses" to "cyber degrees" and "virtual universities." These terms are often used without...
Jones, C., Aoki, K., Rusman, E., & Schlusmans, K. (2009). A comparison of three open universities and their acceptance of technology enhanced learning. Paper presented at the 23rd ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance education. June, 7-10, 2009, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
E-learning enables provision of higher education services beyond national boundaries. International trade in educational services is expected to be liberalized as the General Agreements in Trades in Services (GATS) negotiations will seek to promote these services. Providing higher educational services globally may appear possible with the prevalenc...
Abstract Distance education in Japan has a unique history and regulatory framework,different from that of most Western countries. There have been discussions and studies on differences between Japanese and Western people in terms of their learning styles, reflecting their cultural and societal differences. E-learning, a mode of distance education i...
The primary objective of this presentation is to discuss the trends and issues in Japanese universities and to describe an international project currently underway at NIME with a focus upon investigative research into educational exchange via ICT in higher education and support for researchers and learners of Japanese studies in Japan and abroad. W...
The primary objective of this presentation is to describe an international project currently underway at NIME with a focus upon investigative research into educational exchange via ICTs in higher education and support for researchers and learners of Japanese studies in Japan and abroad. With the advent of technologies educators and learners today h...
It has been almost a decade since MIT announced the OpenCourseWare (OCW) project in the spring of 2001. Several institutions in Japan also followed and on May 13, 2005, six prestigious universities in Japan formed the Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW). Since then, 36 organizations in Japan have joined JOCW, but its public recognition remains s...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-182). Photocopy. s
Thesis (M.A. in Communication)--University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1990. Includes bibliographical references.
We compare three open universities the Open Universities in the UK (OUUK), the Netherlands (OUNL) and Japan (OUJ). Originating in the modern idea of an Open University each university has developed its own pedagogical model. The OUUK developed Supported Open Learning based on: 1. Distance open learning: allowing ‘learning in your own time’ working...
