Abstract
e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku is organized by eight universities in Shikoku for training their students as human resources for cooperative region. For promoting independent development of Shikoku, we must create cooperative region where the people can share the awareness "Shikoku is one community". e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku has been established on the background. Our consortium provides e-Learning contents of their characteristic lectures. Through these activities, e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku constructs educational infrastructure called "Knowledge of Shikoku" in order to train the above mentioned students. "Knowledge of Shikoku" consists of two subject groups. The former group is for general education courses to educate attractiveness of resources, brand, history, topography, culture, tradition, and so on of Shikoku. The latter is for professional education courses to tackle the various issues in Shikoku. With using "Knowledge of Shikoku" integrated in e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku, we an introduce the attractiveness of Shikoku to all over the country, provide characteristic educational programs to train the students who love Shikoku and have high level specialty, and then enhance independent development of Shikoku. In addition, we believe that the students trained by these programs participate actively in Shikoku and then the knowledge power in Shikoku can be improved.
