The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on education and society as a whole. In this study, we focused on Internet and hashtag searches and analysed people’s Internet discourses on universities and distance learning to learn about the ideal state of university education after the pandemic. According to the results, the search rates for the words ‘distance learning’ and ‘online lessons’ were high after the coronavirus infection. On the other hand, there were no changes in the search trends for the words ‘university student’, ‘student’, and ‘interview class’. Additionally, many of the tweets with the hashtags ‘#distance lesson’ and ‘#online lesson’ seemed to have been sent by parents rather than by students, according to the study of the Twitter data. The analysis of tweets with the hashtag ‘# University student’s daily life is important’ revealed that there were unexpectedly many tweets with moderate emotions. From this, we inferred that calm and appropriate judgement and direction would be desirable without being confused by some radical remarks as the ideal way of university education after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Faculty of Education at Mie University and the Tsu City Board of Education collaborated to build a learning support system to ensure learning　opportunities during the temporary closure of the school to deal with COVID-19. Mie University's expertise in “Moodle” and the Tsu City Board of Education provision of learning content made it possible to build the site very quickly. About two months later of the site's built, more than 20,000 student accounts had been created, and now there are more than 27,000 users and 2,600 courses. This learning support site will develop to be used efficiently for students and ensure learning opportunities even in difficult time.

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In this paper, we explored the problems of education DX in high school as a case study based on the online lessons actually conducted at our school. The method of conducting online lessons is a) sim-ultaneous interactive type using Zoom, b) video distribution type using YouTube, and c) text-based distance lessons. In addition to digital divide problems such as environment and individual skills, we clarified the student’s overburden that hinders the integrated enhancement of collaborative learning and individual optimal learning.

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The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus and the accompanying advancement of the GIGA school concept have greatly promoted educational DX in junior high school. In this report, we report on the current situation and issues of junior high school regarding (1) changes in the ICT environment in junior high school, (2) educational DX in junior high school educational activities, and (3) educational DX in junior high school affairs.

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This paper clarifies the significance and tasks of educational DX in elementary schools. For these purposes, we report on a hybrid combination of digital media such as tablet terminals and paper media such as notebooks and study drills. Through two years of practice, we have found that the use of a file sharing service, video sharing form, and web conferencing system, (1) enables immediate monitoring of students' learning status, (2) reduces the burden on parents for submitting the data, (3) facilitates data management for teachers, (4) is useful for practical subjects such as music and home economics, and (5) The ability to increase the number of tools available for children to ask questions. On the other hand, (1) difficulty in considering the learning process, (2) limited feedback methods for children, and (3) digital divide caused by the home environment were left as tasks for educational DX.

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As the number of users of smartphones, LINE, and other applications continues to rise, there is an increasing knowledgeable need for the relationship between these applications and academic performance. In this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted on first-year students attending a private junior high school in Tokyo (n = 175) to clarify the relationship between LINE and academic performance. The results showed that there were significant negative correlations at the 5% level between academic performance and items such as the tendency to worry about received messages, the frequency of checking messages, and the number of LINE friends. However, no significant correlation was found between academic performance and actual time spent using LINE. A multiple regression analysis was conducted which factors in the various items of LINE. The standardized regression coefficients for the independent variables were higher for the number of LINE friends (β = -0.21, p < .05) and received message-feeling (β = -0.19, p < .05), and all were significant. A t-test was conducted to determine whether there was a difference in academic performance depending on whether the smartphone was stored in a different location or not stored when studying at home, and a significant difference was found between the stored and unstored groups at the 5% level.

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This research developed a system for conducting questionnaires on LMS and totaling by VBA. This system enables opinions and reactions of students to be reflected in educational activities with a fast response. The purpose of this paper is to report on the effectiveness of this system and also to expect the possibility of this system being used in programming education.

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This article is a summary of the contents of the presentations or addresses given at the ICDL Asia Digital Literacy Day 2021 held on 9 September 2021.

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