The Idea of the Motivation to the Students in the Information Processing Education

Abstract

There are many class goals and forms of computer literacy education in higher education organizations, but students may have difficulty because the class goals are vague. With the intention of building up effective class contents with a feeling of the achievement, we examined the class goal and the methodology of Information Science II in the Food Nutrition Department., The class goals of Information Science II were as follows : (1) Training of a sense of integrated information processing (2) Work-making by using information processing technology (3) Learning about the essential things of the information science (4) Using a network environment of our computer room To attain a class goal, we paid attention to the spontaneous motivation and prepared for some materials of the motivation in the class. As we thought that the idea of the motivation is very effective in students' learning, we asked them to fill out a questionnaire. The results of the survey show as follows : Integrated information education and a connection between two classes become motivations in the student's learning process, develop their independence and work effectively in the training of their information use ability