We report our experience of the special course which was organized so that all the students should participate in it actively. Each student chose for himself a theme related to physics from the field of medical sciences and life sciences. After working over the theme through various literatures, each student presented a report together with a short abstract to which about 10 keywords of the theme were also attached. Making use of word-processing software on microcomputers the students typed these materials in Japanese. A collection of the abstracts into one floppy disk allowed us to form a small-size database by which one can search a necessary information of the relevant field rather easily. We published a booklet, a collection of the abstracts, and used it as a material for a mini : conference where selected students from each field gave short talks. The main feature of the present course is an introduction of information-science concepts and techniques, such as keywords, abstracts, database and so on, into the educational course. We organized the main content of the subject on the basis of research activities of the students themselves, who could experience various working processes through the course. In this article we discuss the educational meanings of such a lecture form, its consequences and reactions from students as well as problems for further considerations. As show-case an example is given to demonstrate how to use the software developed by us in constructing the database.
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