Recently beginners’ programming courses for university freshmen have high number of dropout and low achievers. To find the cause of this problem, this study investigated into students in beginners’ programming course based on learning strategies and programming test with gradual level. These investigations have two research questions: 1) What kind of learning strategies students have, which affect their grade and learning performance? 2) What type of questions in the programming test students cannot answer, and in particular the differences in the unanswered questions that exist among four student groups with the learning levels. The result shows the evident differences about the learning strategies and the programming test among the four student groups with the learning levels. Additionally this study did discriminant analysis to classify these four groups and shows equations that can classify more than 85% of all students correctly. We finally give some learning support-rules for the programming course.

Learners need to take practical training in solving tasks at programming class, making trial and error. However, it is hard to give appropriate instruction to them because learners’ differences are in their learning process and their interest, which relates to enhance their motivation. Therefore, an evaluation activity was introduced in the class so as to grasp their understanding clearly and to give them detailed instruction. Learners’ consciousness and abilities in programming were investigated before and after introducing the evaluation activity. The analysis result proved it statistically significant that their abilities in thinking about algorithm, expressing in C language, and making better program improved. It was also found out that what activities were useful in improving their abilities and raising their consciousness by the survey of abilities and consciousness.

Freshpersons in university have not been necessarily well educated about the copyright before their entrance. In this paper we discuss design and practice for learning of the copyright. We have taken up problems of the limitation of the copyright, especially, quotation of a copyrightable work and the reproduction for private use. We know that actions in the ordinary sense sometimes cause infringements of the copyright. For the cases we have investigated changes of learners’ mind by learning. If they start to learn the law with the prohibition terms, then they incline to get suppressive. We show that it works well to make practices of rightful use of copyrightable works in the beginning of the learning.

It has been recognized that some students submit a report which has the high similarity compared with the other students. And many studies have been proposed to detect those reports, but these studies have focused on the similarity of one exercise. To detect the real dependency of student, it is necessary to analysis the transition of similarity in many exercises. In this study, we propose and develop the system which detect dependencies of student using time-series analysis of the similarities of reports.

In laboratory classes, students repeatedly modify and submit their report until its contents satisfy a teacher. When the teacher isn’t satisfied with its contents, he/she corrects and returns it to the student. In such activity, there are quite a lot of reports that the teacher should correct. For that case, understanding and managing each state of student's report become the teacher's loads. It is difficult to manage many reports accurately, manually, and simultaneously by some teachers to process them. This paper describes to be able to do the time to wait for correction appropriately as a result of analyzing the management of the report of the reality, to promote the report management mechanism based on it.

Recently, Information Systems based on the Internet have been important for social infrastructures. In spite of having such importance, there are very few qualified engineers who can support such systems. So, it is essential to educate and train well qualified engineer. More cpecifically, it is necessary to develop human resources with a practical knowledge and skill. Here, we introduce a method to use system upgrade and replacement for total learning computing system, because of the system upgrade and replacement is valuable practical experience. Department of Information Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, has already replaced a computer system for education. This replacement was successfully done by the students themselves. In this paper, we explain this activity in details. And, we also show the effectiveness of this activity using some questionnaire. We believe that this activity would be a useful reference for other activities.

Although there are various lecture recording systems, they still have many problems. For instance, the type of lecture material which can be recorded is limited to PowerPoint Slides and recording process needs subsequent editing work. We developed a system which overcomes such limitation. The features of this system are threefold: 1) installation of software into instructor’s PC is unnecessary, 2) subsequent editing work is also unnecessary, and 3) high definition recording is possible. The system we developed allows creation of precise digital learning content.

We used our system for four years in actual university lectures. As a result of comparative analysis on its educational effect, the validity of the system can be proven. Two companies developed the products using the result of this research.

We have hoped for students to learn knowledge and skills to utilize information and communication technology. For this purpose, it is important to find students who are likely to drop behind in the information tutorial class in the early stage. We made a questionnaire to examine collage students’ weak points on computer use and information tutorials just after entrance into collage and before graduation. As a result of our analysis, we would like to introduce one hypothesis: we could identify the students who are likely to drop behind in the class by focusing on Excel skills. To examine this hypothesis, we made class improvements focused on Excel skills in an information tutorial class, and many students' skills improved. Furthermore, more students came to register for other ICT classes after this class.

The ICT (Information and Communication Technology) spread into teaching of childcare. The using of a computer for childcare is widely spread in U.S. It is a part of the school environment playing and learning. However, positive research in the field of the computer use in childcare was still necessary at the present stage in Japan. Through research, the use of photographs and painted pictures by the children, developed the participation type of “the digital picture-card show system” and with an advantage in multimedia provided a solution for these problems. We have performed a proof experiment to test the practical use of “the digital picture-card show system” in order to confirm interest, concern, desire and consciousness.