Formative Evaluation of a Social Networking Platform in an Electric Vehicles Design Contest

Ryohei Ikejiri; Yuri Isshiki; Yuhei Yamauchi

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 283–288

This study designs and formatively evaluates a social networking service (SNS) platform and a management method to foster interaction among students and between students and experts who participated in the Electric Vehicles Super Micro Mobility...

Topics: cooperative/collaborative learning, Design of Distance Learning Systems, Exemplary Projects

Development of a Collaborative Learning System based on NHK's Educational TV Program

Haruo Kurokami; Tatsuya Horita; Yuhei Yamauchi

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 1814–1815

There have been a number of attempts to make collaborative learning situations for elementary school children using the Internet. While there has been some success, effective collaborative learning depends on the sharing of a common problem or...

Topics: Elementary Education, Internet, Children, Collaboration, Middle School Education

FutureBoard: Supporting Collaborative Design Activities

Yuhei Yamauchi; Takeshi Sunaga; Yumiko Nagai

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 2099–2103

The FutureBoard system has been developed to support collaborative design activities. Two kinds of board systems have been created: one is a Personal Board for supporting a personal reflective thinking process developed on a wireless note PC, and...

Topics: Collaboration

How can Teaching Practices of Higher Education be improved by ICT? An Ongoing MOE Comparative Research Project of Japan

Katsuaki Suzuki; Noyuri Mima; Yuhei Yamauchi

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 657–660

The purpose of this short paper is to introduce an on-going research project in Japan for improving teaching practice through the use of ICT. The authors are from higher education unit of the MOE supported research project in 2009-2011. The current...

Analysis of messages on the Only One Earth Club; TV-based collaborative learning site on the Internet

Haruo Kurokami; Tatsuya Horita; Yuhei Yamauchi

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1820

Messages sent to our BBS for collaborative learning can be classified to 10 categories. Each of these categories has some types of interactions among participants and site-staffs. The types of interactions are promotion of in-depth learning,...

Topics: Interaction

A Small History of A Communication Board for Collaborative Learning Among Distant Elementary Classes

Haruo Kurokami; Tatsuya Horita; Yuhei Yamauchi; Tadashi Inagaki; Takashi Minowa

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1035–1040

We developed three types of communication board systems to promote class-to-class collaboration for environmental learning. Each board has advantages and disadvantages. We can summarize these between learning context and idea-comment relationship. ...

Topics: Communication, Collaboration

FutureBoard: Supporting Collaborative Learning with Design Activities

Yuhei Yamauchi; Takeshi Sunaga; Yumiko Nagai; Toshiya Takahashi; Syunji Ogawa

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1778–1779

The FutureBoard system has been developed to support the collaborative learning process, especially design activities in Project Based Learning. Two kinds of board system have been created: one is a Personal Board for supporting the personal...

Topics: Collaboration

Development of a Museum Exhibition System Combining Interactional and Transmissional Learning

Shinichi Hisamatsu; Satoshi Kitamura; Yuhei Yamauchi; Nobutaka Hida

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5877–5884

We develop an interactive exhibition system for museums, which combines learning based on the interaction with objects and learning based on knowledge transmission. The system uses RFID technology to determine the grasping state and feed back the...

Topics: Science, Learning Objects, Educational Technology, Children, Interaction

Role of Video Lectures in A Flipped Classroom: How Is Knowledge Applied in Collaborative Learning?

Wakako Fushikida; Hiroki Oura; Ryota Yamamoto; Yuhei Yamauchi

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 985–997

Many studies on flipped classroom suggest positive effects from watching massive open online course (MOOC) videos before class; however, little research exists discussing the relationship between video content, classroom activities, and learning...

Topics: Case, Scenario, Problem, Project -based learning

Assessment of Collaborative Learning for Students: Making the State of Discussion Visible for their Reflection by Text Mining of Electronic Forums

Toshio Mochizuki; Satoru Fujitani; Yuri Isshiki; Yuhei Yamauchi; Hiroshi Kato

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 285–288

This paper describes a proposal and an examination of a new method to assess communication among learners in the CSCL. The authors have developed the method to visualize discussions by focusing on the relationship between topic keywords and each...

Topics: Culture, Administration, Students

A Study on Modeling of e-Moderating Method in Pre-service Teacher Education

Wakio Oyanagi; Tatsuya HORITA; Yuhei YAMAUCHI; Toshiyuki KIHARA

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2995–3000

When thinking about the developing of the coursework that uses e-Learning at Pre-service Teacher Education, it is important for us to pay attention to the roles of not only "coordination (especially around managing the schedule and information)" but ...

Topics: Students, Teachers

Development of Collaborative Learning Assessment Tool with Multivariate Analysis Applied to Electronic Discussion Forums

Satoru Fujitani; Toshio Mochizuki; Hiroshi Kato; Yuri Isshiki; Yuhei Yamauchi

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 200–203

This paper describes a proposal for a new method to assess communication among learners in the CSCL. The method proposed in this paper is to visualize discussions by focusing on the relationship between topic keywords and each learner using a...

iTree : The mobile phone software for visualizing the learner's interaction on BBS

Jun Nakahara; Shinichi Hisamatsu; Kazaru Yaegashi; Yuhei Yamauchi

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 401–404

We developed the BBS support software called iTree. iTree can visualize the current status of learner's interaction on BBS in order to facilitate learner's participation in online discussion on BBS. It is the JAVA software working on the mobile...

Topics: Interaction

Learning strategy feedback system for students using data mining technology

Hideya Matsukawa; Satoshi Kitamura; Yusuke Nagamori; Shinichi Hisamatsu; Yuhei Yamauchi; Mai Nakano; Yasutomo Kanamori; Naoko Miyashita

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 4269–4278

ABSTRACT: Using data mining technology, we developed a feedback system of learning strategies based on models that were created from data obtained from high school students. Using this system, we evaluated it from the following perspectives: (a)...

Impact of Using Facebook as a Social Learning Platform to Connect High School Students with Working Adults

Yuhei Yamauchi; Toru Fujimoto; Kaoru Takahashi; Junko Araki; Yusuke Otsuji; Hisashi Suzuki

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 465–472

This study examines "the Socla study program" to build a social learning community for high school students using Facebook and other Internet services. In the two-week program, the students worked on individual study projects that focused on their...

Collaborative Filtering for Expansion of Learner's Background Knowledge in Online Language Learning: Does "Top-Down" Processing Improve Vocabulary Proficiency?

Masanori Yamada; Satoshi Kitamura; Hideya Matsukawa; Tadashi Misono; Noriko Kitani; Yuhei Yamauchi

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 62, No. 5 (October 2014) pp. 529–553

In recent years, collaborative filtering, a recommendation algorithm that incorporates a user's data such as interest, has received worldwide attention as an advanced learning support system. However, accurate recommendations along with a user...

MEET Video Explorer: Development of Exploratory Learning Support System for Public Broadcasting Videos and its Formative Evaluation

Toshihisa Nishimori; Yuhei Yamauchi; Toshio Mochizuki; Shin-ichi Hisamatsu; Jun Nakahara

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5679–5683

MEET Video Explorer (MVE) is a video search support system, which uses tablet PCs and was developed with a view to utilizing videos, such as documentaries aired on public broadcasting networks and then stored, for problem-based learning activities...

Topics: Educational Technology, Video, Information Sciences

iPlayer: Development of an Interactive Streaming Player for E-Learning

Yuhei Yamauchi; Shunsuke Sakai; Kazaru Yaegashi; Shinichi Hisamatsu; Toshio Mochizuki; Satoshi Kitamura

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1528–1530

The object of this study was the development of the iPlayer, an interactive streaming video player for use in e-learning. This system aims to create interactive instructor–student and student–student links, as well as a sense of community among...

Topics: Students, Learning Objects, Schools, Interaction

The Socla Project: an Attempt to Build an Innovative Study Environment through SNS Linkage of Second-Year High School Students and Working Adults

Yuhei Yamauchi; Mio Tsubakimoto; Satoshi Kitamura; Tadashi Misono; Yusuke Otsuji; Hisashi Suzuki

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 1276–1282

A two-week program “Socla Project” was conducted to provide academic support for 17 high school students by using iPad and Twitter to link them up with 10 university students and working adults (“supporters”). Students engaged in research on the...

Learning about science with parents : Developing an Educational Program for Scientific Experiments Using Cell Phones

Jun Nakahara; Etsuji Yamaguchi; Toshihisa Nishimori; Toshio Mochizuki; Mai Nakano; Yutaka Furuta; Seiji Sekine; Junichi Ofusa; Yoji Takikawa; Yuhei Yamauchi

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 203–211

We have developed a hands-on science educational program for forth and fifth grade elementary school children and their parents in which they have conducted a series of science experiments. The name of the program is “Oyako de Science: Learning...

Topics: Elementary Education, Science, Children, Middle School Education, Information Sciences

Borderless Canvas: Development of a Multi-display Discussion Software for Knowledge-emergent Presentations

Kazutaka Kurihara; Toshio Mochizuki; Hiroki Oura; Mio Tsubakimoto; Toshihisa Nishimori; Jun Nakahara; Yuhei Yamauchi; Shin-ichi Watanabe

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3676–3688

With the growing possibilities for ICT to support knowledge-emergent activities, this study introduces a multi-display discussion software "Borderless Canvas," which facilitate the development of knowledge-emergent capabilities through these...

Development and Evaluation of English Listening Study Materials for Business People Who Use Mobile Devices: A Case Study

Masanori Yamada; Satoshi Kitamura; Noriko Shimada; Takafumi Utashiro; Katsusuke Shigeta; Etsuji Yamaguchi; Richard Harrison; Yuhei Yamauchi; Jun Nakahara

CALICO Journal Vol. 29, No. 1 (September 2011) pp. 44–66

This study aims to verify the effectiveness of English language materials using mobile devices for business people in terms of the effect on motivation, overall learning performance, and practical performance in real business situations. We compared ...

eJournalPlus: Development of a TabletPC Based Reading Support Software Toward Critical Reading

Hiroki Oura; Toshio Mochizuki; Toshihisa Nishimori; Tomomi Sato; Yuji Nakamura; Takashi Ohno; Yoshikazu Tateno; Masaki Miyake; Shinichi Watanabe; Johanson Henrik; Kenichiro Matsumoto; Hajime Wada; Takashi Miyatani; Jun Nakahara; Yuhei Yamauchi

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5684–5688

This study introduces eJournalPlus, a tabletPC based reading support software. The goal is to assist the user in reading e-documents with accurate comprehension and critical attitude to improve his/her critical reading skills. In the software, the...

Topics: Software

The Impact of Making a Concept Map for Constructive Reading with the Critical Reading Support Software "eJournalPlus"

Mio Tsubakimoto; Toshio Mochizuki; Toshihisa Nishimori; Tomomi Sato; Hiroki Oura; Yuji Nakamura; Takashi Ohno; Shin-ichi Watanabe; Johansson Henrik; Ken-ichiro Matsumoto; Hajime Wada; Takashi Miyatani; Jun Nakahara; Yuhei Yamauchi

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 506–514

This study introduces "MEET eJournalPlus," a tabletPC based reading support software. The purpose of this software is to assist the learner in reading e-documents with accurate comprehension and a critical attitude in order to improve his/her...