2017 Volume 29 Issue 3 Pages 586-594
In recent years, an education that students can acquire living strength to cope with drastically varying society is desired. Learning motivation is indispensable to acquire abilities of thinking, deciding and solving problems. In addition, learning motivation is treated as one of the major subjects in Japanese education according to the international assessment reports of learning achievement such as PISA and TIMSS. In this study, a learning system with story and life functions is proposed to elevate and maintain learners’ motivation. The story function supplies stories that correspond to rewards of learning, and the life function restricts chance of learning. According to the evaluation experiments, these functions could be utilized for elevation and maintenance of learning motivation.