In this review, author tried to reorganize the concept of “children’s learning” from five viewpoints, e.g., 1)historical considerations of contemporary school education from traditions, 2)a new concept in communication induced by a evolving feature of class, 3)communication as a media, 4)from teaching to learning, 5)classroom as a semantic space. Through the reorganizing process, two concepts, e.g., a)a contemporary essence of communication in a class, b)a philosophy of dialogue as a necessarily fundamental tool for the class, are elucidated to provide an effective measure of breakthrough idea in the infoglutted educational circumstance.

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They say that ICT is dream tools for education but，on mathematics education，teachers do not use them. In this article，we shall show the reason and the problems on ICT in mathematics education.

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One of the central objectives of any educational practice is to support students to learn deeply and thereby foster deep learners. Two new trends in education (active learning and the use of ICT) do not automatically guarantee deep learning. On the other hand, an old-fashioned approach such as the didactic method focusing on knowledge transmission does not necessarily lead to shallow learning. Based on this aim of education, we can flexibly design classroom activities without being deceived by surface activities. As an example of such a design, this paper describes an attempt to attain deep learning in an introductory statistics class in which ICT was incorporated into active learning.

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Opportunities to utilize LMS (Learning Management System) in places of education are increasing, especially in higher education institutions. LMS is usually used with learning contents in a wide variety of instructional activities. And in recent years, practices which store learning processes and achievements as e-Portfolio to give feedback to learning activities are drawing attention. In these circumstances, I describe interoperability of LMS concerning learning contents and e-portfolio system.

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Four national universities in Hokuriku region have constructed and put into operation a remote learning system with interactive connection between each of the universities. The main purpose of this system was to build closer ties within the region, and make our administration more efficient. In designing the system, we took heed of making the system easy to operate for the lecturers and making it interactive in its true meaning with the help of ICT. From the evaluations by the students and the questionnaires for the lecturers, it was shown that our project would serve as one of the models of the interactive remote learning system.

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This study was undertaken to ascertain whether or not correspondence-course students are able to enhance their autonomy and motivation by selecting English learning sites according to their interests and English levels. Participants in this study were 42 second-year correspondence course students at a private university. They took English II in 2011. The study was conducted by analyzing students’ responses to questionnaires. The findings of this study show that using English learning sites on the internet is enjoyable, challenging, and rewarding for participating students: most students learned English with great enjoyment because they were able to select materials according to their interests and English levels. They also wanted to continue studying English using internet learning sites.

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This research aims to analytically show that the basic Korean textbook based on a table PC (hereafter referred to as the digital text book) developed by us is beneficial in Korean language learning as a new educational environment. Survey data from learners of different 2-groups were used in the analysis. For statistical analysis, correspondence analyses with a focus on backgrounds of learners as well as Fisher's exact test using multidimensional contingency tables were applied. In particular, the learners of 2-groups were greatly satisfied with the comprehensive evaluation with respect to learning such as a learning will, autonomous study, and sustainable use of the digital text book. The results of the analysis suggest that the digital book is capable of being put to practical use in Korean language learning as the new educational environment.

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Longitudinal experimental research has been conducted for several years in order to examine the effects of the use of CALL system on English language activities in elementary schools. The purpose of this study is to reveal the relation between the amount of learning and perceptual ability of English by Japanese elementary school students. One hundred and seventeen students in the 3rd grade participated during the period. As indexes for the amounts of learning, (a) the total number of task blocks completed, (b) the number of different kinds of tasks, (c) total learning time, and (d) the number of task blocks completed per hour, were calculated. As indexes for the English perceptual ability, (1) a character recognition test (capital alphabet letters), (2) a perception test of syllables, and (3) a phonological perception test, were conducted at the end of the academic year. A correlation analysis was conducted, and it was found that there was a weak correlation tendency between the character recognition test (that is, (1)) and the number of different kinds of tasks (i.e., (b)), whereas there were some correlations (r = .29 - .57) between speech perception ability (i.e., (2) and (3)) and the amount of learning (especially (a), (b), and (d)). These results show that the children who intensively tackled as many and as varied tasks as possible using CALL materials would make much further progress in their speech perception.

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