Computer & Education
Online ISSN : 2188-6962
Print ISSN : 2186-2168
ISSN-L : 2186-2168
Volume 16
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  • Creating Useful Software for Others
    Mamoru Iwabuchi, Takashi Minoshima, Akiko Ikeda, Shinji Kawano, Toru Y ...
    2004 Volume 16 Pages 51-59
    Published: June 01, 2004
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
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    In this study, information education in an integrated environment was investigated. Junior high school students visited kindergarten pupils and created software which the students designed to be useful for the everyday lives of the pupils. This educational activity was at first difficult for the students who have had little experience of producing things for others. However, the students became active and had a wider view of information technology use after they found themselves welcomed by the kindergarten pupils. The students showed a tendency to increase their confidence in the usefulness of their software and their planning skill through the activity. Meanwhile, the evaluation by the students suggested they needed trial and error to understand what the pupils really wanted. The majority of the comments from the students said they preferred a learning style where they had to create their own ideas for the software in comparison with the ordinary information education class style where they are taught what to do.
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  • Kouju Fujii, Daisuke Kato, Hiroki Aoki, Kenji Nakagawa, Yoshihisa Kato
    2004 Volume 16 Pages 60-68
    Published: June 01, 2004
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
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    In this paper, Web−based Training(i. e. WBT)has been developed on Saint−Venant torsion analysis of the solid bar with cross section (round, elliptical or equilateral triangle shape).Developed WBT had been composed of 3 kinds of teaching material that involved textbook, problem practice and Web 3 D, and it devised the system that can mutually cooperate. These teaching material can learn the a series of course until it calculates the characteristic of deformation and stress distribution in cross section by some definitions of complex analytic function which satisfies boundary condition of each cross section. In addition, the possibility of the engineering education has been examined by the execution for grasping the evaluation for the teaching material developed from the viewpoint of third party of the questionnaire through the Web server.
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  • Yoichi Tsutsui
    2004 Volume 16 Pages 69-77
    Published: June 01, 2004
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
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    The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of nonprofit research using e−Learning tools in the transition from mass to universal higher education. The development of e−Learning has technically realized the ideal of recurrent education and, therefore, drastically increased the number of adult students. Currently, e−Learning is routinely introduced at top research universities in the US. After the Kobe Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, Japanese universities, too, began to establish the nonprofit research program as one aspect of recurrent education and introduced e−Learning in those educational program.This paper argues that with the above technical development nonprofit research in the university by degrees becomes equipped with e−Learning. The results of this research indicate that nonprofit research program using e−Learning will bring not only the changes on content and method of university education, but create a new learning community in the university.
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  • ―About the Shift to the C Language from Visual Basic, and a Continuous Effect―
    Yoshinori Mikawa
    2004 Volume 16 Pages 78-87
    Published: June 01, 2004
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
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    We have tried the improvement of the programming education at the time of the introduction which Visual Basic was used for since last year. This trial is done for the purpose of making the students who should make programming poor decrease.Three years in a low grade are considered as one pause of this project with grade advance. Some effects by the improvement of programming education are acquired in the first year, and it is already report ending about these. In the current fiscal year, to the 2 nd grade, the used language was changed into the C language from the Basic language, and improvement education was practiced. Consequently, the remarkable continuous effect from the first year in programming education was checked. This paper reports the improvement method currently practiced continuously and its effect.
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  • Takayuki Fujimoto, Tokuro Matsuo
    2004 Volume 16 Pages 88-94
    Published: June 01, 2004
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
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    In school education, Elective Subjects has a big influence on students’ motive and study volition. In spite of the method for reflecting students’ concerns, Elective Subjects are not fully functioning, now. On the contrary, it also has the paradox of leading also to the factor which makes students’ volition declining. In this paper, the importance of the class organization in Elective Subjects is pointed out. And the problem of the conventional mechanical organization method is pointed out. And the “class organization method based on Multi Attribute Utility Theory” which can take students’ concerns into consideration is proposed. The class organization theory proposed in this paper has proved the effective thing compared with the conventional method as a result of the simulation experiment. The prototype of a class organization support system was made based on this proposal.
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  • Hideko Nakano, Yuji Okuda, Rodger Williamson
    2004 Volume 16 Pages 95-101
    Published: June 01, 2004
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
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    Suprasegmental phonemes like rhythm and intonation play an important role when speaking English. Japanese learners of English find it difficult to master them because of the fundamental rhythmic differences existing between Japanese and English. Until recently, materials for English rhythm pattern practice were primarily text−based, analog audio exercises. For this research project, these traditional materials were enhanced with digitalized visual and auditory effects. These enhancements were tested in order to ascertain the most effective ones. The merits of these new computer−based materials were investigated, and the potential of further developments based on this method are discussed.
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  • Toshihiro Hayashi, Yukuo Hayashida
    2004 Volume 16 Pages 102-107
    Published: June 01, 2004
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
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    It is very important for understanding computer behavior in details to acquire knowledge about both hardware and software. As for learning about hardware, it is difficult to directly observe the behavior and the internal status because hardware device is generally constructed as a black box. To solve this learning problem, software simulators are often used. This paper describes the prototyping of a virtual computer simulator called “VCOM” for learning microprogram which is a method to realize control unit. VCOM mainly visualizes control memory which stores microprogram and control signals generated from the control memory. This paper reports the design and implementation of VCOM, the system features, and the utilization to a lecture.
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