The paper examines the history, status and issues of ICT-enhanced education for education equity and quality improvement in P.R.China. Firstly, it is reviewed that educational policies and educational programs on ICT-enhanced education issued from the Chinese central government from 1999 until now. Secondly, it is summarized that the roles of Ministry of Education in China and related solutions in order to provide the educational resource and the information infrastructure for schools. Thirdly, it is introduced the example of the educational informalization in Liaoning Province. Finally, it is discussed that current issues of ICT utilization in education in China.

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Vietnam changed into a market economy system in 1986, which is called “Doi Moi”. Doi Moi brought economic success and new type of life standard to Vietnamese people. The purpose of this paper is to clarify this social change in terms of IT in early childhood education of Vietnam. The analysis is mainly based on materials collected in field work from 2010 to 2012, and has two scales of area: whole country level and a province level. As a result, this paper pointed out as follows ; (1) IT in early childhood education developed rapidly in these a few years, (2) The degree of IT differ from each pre-primary/ kindergarten/nursery, (3) IT is leaded by both central and local government, and is supported by “peoples’ power”, which is accumulated by market economy. This is to say that economic status of parents or guardians and local socio-economic situation make differences among each pre-primary/ kindergarten/nursery.

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Since its founding in 1994, our company has been involved deeply in the business matching between businesses of Japan and South Korea.　We have developed YOUSEE of digital solutions in both South Korea and Japan. We made some digital textbooks in Japan and South Korea. I want to introduce that has been working in university education in South Korea.

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In this study, we made a development of prototype electronic educational materials with interactivity for a class of information science in a university and their effectiveness on students was evaluated. These materials are assumed to be used for self-learning and designed so that contents are interactively displayed according to inputs by the students. Additionally, in the trial production, it was made into consideration that the developing tools are as usual as possible, and these materials can be used in off-line environment and they work correctly on several types of devices and OSs. The materials were actually used in a class in a university, and the difference of effect which arises with a student's characteristic was verified. It was suggested, as a result, that the materials are useful for the students with insufficient understanding of learning.

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The purpose of this research is to analyze and verify the Influence of system of tablet computer on planning and practice of learning evaluation. We investigated evaluation plan of technology education class that 20 students （graduate and undergraduate） with practice teaching experience considered. As a result, in the evaluation planning after showing learning evaluation system, learning evaluation system was set up as evaluation method in more than half evaluation criteria and viewpoint. Learning evaluating system recognized as effective evaluation method for evaluation viewpoint on “interest, willingness, and attitude” and “ingenuity and creativity”. In addition, we found that the use of learning evaluation system frequently in production activity including learning process.

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In recent years, education has attracted attention as one of the four major functions of a museum. At many museums, workshops and teaching material development already effectively contribute to education. In this study, we focus on how a museum, universities, and a private company collaboratively developed tablet teaching materials for the annular solar eclipse of May 21th, 2012.We held workshops with approximately 300 children in eight places. We consider education through museums and focus on the following:（1）development of teaching materials and workshop design in cooperation with several organizations,（2）learning motivation,（3）design of participation workshops that exploit tablet teaching materials.

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