This paper describes the present conditions of computer education in the United Kingdom in order to seek a clue to future computer education at Japanese universities. Specifically, Stantonbury Campus is chosen as an example of the primary and secondary education, and the Open University as the higher education.For the primary and the secondary education, Japan is compared with the United Kingdom in terms of the computer education curricula. Both Japan and UK aim at training of information technology(IT) capability. In respect to IT capability and two examples, computer education in the university is considered to change their concept from computer literacy to computer communication and computing as educational media in the near future.

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This paper introduces an outline of Leaner Centered-Design which 'Communications of ACM'(Vol. 39, No.4, 1996) edited as the special section and its two examples, "Student Communities for the Advancement of Knowledge" and "The Collaboratory Notebook". In the former, the communal date base as is called CSILE(Computer Supported Intentional Learning) was developed on the base of the idea of Knowledge-Building Community. In the latter, the Collaboratory Notebook was developed on the background of the philosophy of "communities of practice".Two examples are full of suggestions for the reform of education in the Japanese universities.

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This article summarizes the result of my Project 'International Joint Seminar between Germany(Deutschland) and Japan via Internet' (abbr. DJ50) presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of PC Conference, June 25, 1995. In this Cyber Seminar , the core part of the project, Toyama participants discussed with three German universities' (Konstanz, Duisburg and Düsseldorf) about the subject 'Comparative research of German and Japanese Post-War 50 Years' Politics'. English as a official language and some functions such as WWW Browser, Mailing List and IRC were used. It was the first trial in Political Science and International Relations of Japan that the Cyber Seminar was carried out with foreign countries for a long term . As a conclusion, it is pointed out that such kind of trials will undoubtedly enlarge the possibility of academic way of research and education.

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Analyzing results of research carried out at Keio University, Shonan-Fujisawa Campus(SFC), concerning information processing education, we succeeded in recognizing the gap between its objectives and its outcome, and in obtaining the information needed for the actual state of this education, we have to ensure that it is a flexible system which can cope with various changes. This idea will not only apply to SFC, but also many educational institutions carrying out information processing in its curriculum.

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When the students study by themselves, they are encouraged to communicate their views each other, they can form their own opinion and find out what it will lead them in future,they can reflect on themselves.To inspect this assumption, since last year, our school have joined the "Media Kids"(the visual communication) and made use of the internationalnetwork.This paper will report how we have encouraged our students to study by introducing "information media".

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The university education in the 21st century should support the students for developing their competence of problem-solving, communicative skill, creativity, and so forth, rather than giving knowledge as we have done in the past education. The computer facilities in the university should serve students helping for that goal. In the course of study, behavioral learning or learning by doing will be emphasized. Such computer systems, for instance, would be needed; an efficient response treatment system from students to a teacher, an easy and smooth mutual Q & A communication system among students via computer network, a navigator learning system guiding where each individual stands in the course and directing where and how he/she should go. The computer will be , with no doubt, a great and powerful assistant in the future classroom.

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In recent years, the problems such as the forest decline caused by environmental pollution and the establishment of the tree medicine system are increasing social interest in health care of trees. However, there is no easy non-destructive diagnostic method for plants. Acoustic Emission (AE) is one of the ultrasonic nondestructive inspection techniques, and it is applied to the defect detection and strength evaluation of materials, the inspection of adhesion and welding, and the inspection for maintenance of constructions and machines. Since a phenomenon in which the water transportation generates ultrasonic waves in plants has been discovered, it is expected to establish a diagnosis of plant by using AE technique. In this work, the possibility of the AE as a new communication method between the plant and the human is discussed, including reports of AE measurements of the seedling of Japanese cedar planted in the acid soil and the camphor tree damaged by the atomic bomb in Nagasaki.

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One of the main objectives of drafting education in mechanical engineering is to train the students such that they can easily understand the spatial relationship of a solid object expressed by three orthographic views and conversely they can draw,without difficulty,the three orthographic views of a given solid. In order to attain this objective we have developed the next three software systems, i.e.,(1) a drafting system for three orthographic views,(2) an automatic solid reconstruction system from three orthographic views, and (3) an automatic generation system of development drawings from a solid model representation.For the last few years we have put these systems into the uses of drafting class and we found them very successful. This article reports an outline of the trial uses of these systems in real drafting education class.In chapter 1 we discuss how the drafting education should be in mechanical engineering department. We point out the necessity of training of dealing with spatial objects and propose to utilize 3 dimensional computer aided design system to fulfill this requirement. In chapter 2 we briefly explain the computer aided design systems which have been put into practical use. In chapter 3 we explain how we introduced these systems into drafting class. In chapter 4 we show the results of feedback from our students on this new trials.

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The HyperCard Stack "German Exercise" was produced to give students more practice in basic German vocaburary and grammar that they are just short of. "German Exercise" is mainly used as self-teaching material. For the students who have failed the regular classroom examination, it also provides additional opportunities to make up. Students appreciate this sort of retest because they can try it over and over again. We make a few suggestions to those who would like to produce their own stacks. We also report how questions of the stack function one by one and how we have used it in practice for these years.

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This article reports the authors' attempt to develop multimedia CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) software on Windows 95 by using Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0. First, several reasons for selecting Windows 95 as our platform OS are summarized. Then the authors' principles (both technical and educational) for the software development are reported. In the fourth section, a prototype software resulting from these principles are explained in details. In the fifth section, the authors discuss the feedbacks made by the users of this prototype. Future research directions as well as some remaining shortcomings are mentioned in the last section.

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The purpose of the present report is to show classroom activities in "An English Writing Communication Class" offered at the Faculty of Education of Fukushima University, in the first semester of 1996, where the "Internet" is used as a teaching tool. In this course, the ability to utilize the "Internet" is regarded as one of the most important abilities that English teachers are supposed to acquire nowadays. Students, who had little knowledge about a computer or network at the beginning of the course, came to utilize the "Internet" after 14 classes. The syllabus for the class, textbooks, teaching devices, and problems to be solved are given.

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We have a CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) room for some foreign language classes. The mulitimedia computer system enables more interactive learning of foreign languages and is more flexible than was previously possible. The ways to take advantage of CALL system will be various. In this article, we present two ways for use of self-made software by HyperCard in French classes. One is a program for individual learning in intensive exercises of certain subjects. One other is a program for group learning in project works.

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The Chinese team in CAI Project (Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University) has been trying to develop Chinese Instruction in CALLL. Currently we are working of three software. They are Pronunciation Practice, Chinese Drill for Beginners and Actional Verb database. Pronunciation Practice is an improvement of Sound analyze software. Chinese Drill for Beginners is made by HTML. Action Verb database helps learners to understand the system of actional verb.

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