Abstract
Aiming to promote students spontaneous learning and to improve education quality and level for mass education at college level in Japan, an educational method named the Spontaneous Learning Activation Spiral Education Method is proposed. The proposed method exploits the advantages of the web-based coordinated education activation system CEAS, which supports teachers' classroom teaching and students' preparation and review studies in an integrated way. The proposed method requires the spiral repetitions of the learning cycle of preparation study, classroom teaching and review study during the school term where assignment materials are deployed for preparation and review studies synchronizing with class instruction progress so that students are forced to study at classroom as well as at home. The contents to be taught in the courses are classified into declarable and procedural knowledge. They are assigned to preparation and review assignments respectively, and the learning hierarchy of the course contents is formed within and across a class teaching. The proposed method is applied to the engineering course for the advanced programming with more than one hundred attendants, and its effectiveness in enhancing students ability in logical thinking is demonstrated by analyzing the final examination scores as well as questionnaire results.
