The objective of this study is to determine the latent factors influencing student to build the “fundamental competencies for working persons”. We used the data collected from a questionnaire survey. The data was verified to fit with our model which hypothesized “fundamental competencies for working person” attitudes toward “support for career decision-making”. The support for career decision-making means “career information providing service by specialized area” and “career counseling by professor in specialized area”. Our results suggested that “career information providing service” and “career counseling” directly motivated them towards “fundamental competencies for working person”.

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 The aim of the present study was to clarify the characteristics of the learners' individual missteps classified by personality in development/participation-style Geographic Information Systems education by holding workshop carried out as a part of a lesson at the two high schools. The results showed that the high school students' impressions of Geographic Information Systems changed for the better before and after the workshop and some students failed in giving their opinions, doing survey and making presentations. Especially, the high school students of an active personality (FC-HI) failed in understanding the technical words in the learning method and the high school students of an irresponsible personality (CP-Low) failed in making presentations.

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 In recent years, mobility management education has been implemented in various regions. To encourage the development in more areas, it is required to extract the knowledge on how to start the mobility management education from characteristics of long-term effect of general programs. Therefore, we took up the practical examples in Kumiyama town. And we conducted a comparative analysis about the effects expected from the point of view of traffic behavior modification and education. As a result, we revealed that real experience can deepen the impression and effect, programs that focuses on the bus of the region can encourage the use of the bus not only the perception of the bus, programs that remind relationship of self and region can increase affection for public transport and region and moral consciousness. And, based on these, we discussed ways of making an effective program.

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 We proposed a multi-institutional PBL using ICT and cooperative experiment. A PBL containing a problem with an environment and a leading-edge technology was designed. The questionnaire investigation results to both engineers and researchers was used for several design items of the PBL. A communication ability was educated at the meeting on web of the early phase of PBL rather than the cooperative experiment of the latter phase of PBL. The questionnaire investigation to the students and teachers revealed that conducting the web meeting apparently required some characteristic factor. This study, however, could not identify what the characteristic factor at a meeting on web was. The teachers finally evaluated an achievement ratio of understanding the experimental principles and the technical acquirement. The questionnaire investigation indicates that the PBL was effective on the technical acquirement. The PBL can lead to a novel education effect on the student's communication ability and has high feasibility.

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 In order to understand the hydraulic theories from experience, hydraulic experiments are carried out at the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Gifu College. The class of the hydraulic experiments was not effective because students were not actively involved in it. The aim of this study is to develop teaching materials for effective hydraulic experiments using the LMS (Learning Management System). The developed teaching materials consist of instruction movies, preparation quizzes, self-check data sheets and discussion sheets. From the questionnaire, more than 90% of students answered that the active hydraulic experiments were carried out because of the use of the teaching materials. As a result, it was revealed that the developed teaching materials using the Moodle were useful for active learning.

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 Currently, an increase in the demand for electricity causes a power shortage and global warming. The purpose of this study was to propose environmental education program using behavioral planning method for promoting energy saving behavior and to examine the effects of the program. For this purpose, we conducted this program targeting the fifth year students (n = 108) in Aratama elementary school in Matsuyama and there parents. As a result, it was shown that household energy saving behavior was promoted through this program and also the tendency was sustained after the program.

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 Because fatigue failure is often difficult to detect, advanced knowledge and experience are required for inspectors. For this reason, an educational software for close visual inspection has been developed to facilitate the education of inspectors. Since our developed educational software is Internet based, it is available to any interested user. This educational software allows users to gain familiarity with fatigue failure inspections on their personal computers by controlling an animated inspector. Additionally, slides showing causes, along with fatigue damage illustrations and photographs, are displayed when the inspector in the educational software detects fatigue failure. Users can learn about the fatigue failure in depth by viewing the displayed slide.

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 Recently, opportunity of education is quite rare concerning theory of torsional warping at university or technical college. Engineer's general impression for the theory is so called very difficult. Therefore, a new educational program regarding the theory was developed in this study. The program is composed of a textbook and a lesson which adopts interactive learning method. Based on the beam theory lectured in elementary structural mechanics, the textbook has many figures to easily and visually grasp relation of bending and warping on beam with thin-walled polygonal cross section. According to results of questionnaire survey for subjects who experienced the program, it was revealed that good education effects and properly understandings are attained by the program.

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 An educational tool is necessary for understanding the river basin environment in bird's-eye view. We develop the educational tool and content using AR (augmented reality) and three dimensional solid model. The educational content contains visualization images for elevation, land use, water quality and presence/absence of fishes in four river basins. AR enable to overlay these visualization results on the solid model of river basins.
 The questionnaire survey for high school students was conducted in order to verify the effectiveness of this educational tool. It revealed that this tool helps hearers and speakers to explain and understand the environment of river basin.

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