Old technology has been utilized as "a useful tool" for acquiring a lot of knowledge efficiently for a short time. However, we have experienced the great earthquake and the impasse of the social system. Therefore, We have strong demand for research of a new relationship between "learning" and technology. The author had carried out six projects in the past ten years. These six projects are introduced in this paper. And those projects show the new role of the technology to "learning." New technology practical use stimulates man's sensitivity. And it affects even "the quality of learning". In future "super-digital age", such technology practical use will become important.

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Successful learning can be attained through the continuous intercommunication between teacher and his/her students. Intermediate test information assembled from learning students is a good resource for checking the students’ progress and assisting them as a learning navigator. However, a teacher cannot manage a lot of test data when the number of students and the test frequency increase. E-testing helps the treatment of the students’ response data incorporated with their own PC and the central machine, if the learning management system is well organized. Development of instructional materials, construction of test questions, treatment and accumulation of response data, ways of feedback and announcement, all of them are keys for success of e-testing. Several checking points and the matters of attention are discussed.

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We discuss computerized essay testing, which has been rapidly replacing paper and pencil tests. A typical example is the national assessment of educational progress, NAEP. We present its writing assessment specifications and make comments on the background of why NAEP does not use automated scoring. We also discuss the automated essay scoring（AES）system, which is now widely used for some public tests, e.g., the Graduate Management Admission Test（GMAT）and the Medical College Admission Test（MCAT）. Beyond the AES, an essay writing support system, Text Adaptor, which is developed by the Educational Testing Service（ETS）, is described in detail. Currently, our interest is shifting to more sophisticated processing such as semantic and contextual evaluation of written essays, and the natural flow of paragraphs.

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The author used a "stock market game" as a part of finance education in a junior college. This computer game simulated the buying and selling of stocks based on their real stock prices. It was also expected to train computer literacy. The reason a "stock market game" was used in the practical classes of a junior college was to give the students some background in the remarkable changes in the economic environment that surrounds consumers. At the same time, the author strongly believes that the educational role of a junior college could be achieved with finance education. The education in a junior college needs to provide not only business and vocational education, but also liberal arts education. It is the role of education in a junior college to provide ability and knowledge acquisition that will support the students during any sudden changes in social conditions in the future.

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We look back on the past ten years of ICT（Information and Communication Technology）education and make a survey of its progress. Firstly we review the history and educational goals of information study in high school. With those in mind, we discuss the issues and problems in ICT education today, which include how we can deal with those who are recently referred to as ‘digital natives’. Moreover, information ethics, which is prerequisite for the participation in the highly advanced ICT society, will also be discussed. Finally few topics on the computerization in the upcoming ICT education will be introduced in some respects.

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This study surveyed the rate of usage of Community（an electronic bulletin board）of EBSi English Programs for the College Scholastic Ability Test in Korea. The study, which was conducted at a high school that introduced EBSi as part of the curriculum after school and at a high school that did not, was conducted to reveal how participating students use Community. The study also evaluated Community to elucidate whether students at the high school that introduced EBSi as part of the curriculum after school use Community more than students at the high school that did not introduce EBSi as part of the curriculum after school. The rate of Community use was generally low. Students at the school that had EBSi as part of the curriculum after school used Community more than students at the school that did not have EBSi as part of the curriculum after school.

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This study examines the transfer of lexical knowledge from Chinese to Japanese with a view to building an e-learning Japanese vocabulary learning system for Chinese learners. Firstly, building upon our previous research, we analyze the degree of lexical similarity between Japanese and Chinese. Using the results of this analysis, we create a vocabulary-image link map. Finally, we propose a learning method aimed at strengthening lexical-ideographic links.

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This research aims to analytically show that the software developed by us that recognizes handwritten Korean characters（hereafter referred to as handwriting electronic learning materials）is beneficial in Korean language learning. Survey data（3-tier evaluation for 18 questionnaires）from learners of different proficiency levels were used in the analysis. For statistical analysis，correspondence analyses with a focus on gender and proficiency level as well as chi-square test using multidimensional contingency tables were applied. The results of the analysis suggest that the handwriting electronic learning materials are effective for beginner learners in their study of the structure and understanding of Korean characters. The handwriting electronic learning materials also provide an effective method for memorizing words and learning grammar for experienced learners who are familiar with Korean characters.

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Many private universities have a problem on the students’ job hunting. When students get a job, they need to take the SPI examination. However, there are no effective support methods of job-hunting examination for low test-scored students. In this paper, we propose an education management support system called as OMES（Order Made Education System）for paper test in job-hunting. Our proposed system is used by instructor in the course. Each class contains multiple sets of lecture and exercise. The system searches for an appropriate exercise question for each student based on their knowledge and experiences. When students take an identical exercise question, traditional education methods have a problem like that students lose motivation to continue to learn because the exercise question is not fitted to each learner. On the other hands, using the OMES, we confirm that keeping students’ learning motivation and increasing students that want to study next time.

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