Information and Communication Technology （ICT） has been used as assistive technology （AT） for students with disabilities to secure their human rights to participate general education. The enactment of the Act on the Elimination of Disability Discrimination （April, 2015） and the guideline from Ministry of Education emphasize the students' right to use assistive technology as reasonable accommodation. Regarding higher education, the disability student service （DSS） offices, which has been rapidly developed in Japan, has the role to support to use assistive technology for students with disabilities. Literatures from the United States illustrated the large social interest on supports for students with learning disabilities （LD） based on the huge number of the students with LDs. The population of students with LDs supported by special education in their schools will also increase rapidly in Japan. It is expected that large population with LD will increase the needs to use assistive technology for students with LDs in the near future of Japan.

　The mission of university is research and education － research that helps society and education that prepares students to be a contributing member of society. In order to fulfill such mission, it is the university's duty to ensure that all eligible students have access to educational opportunities, including entrance examination, lectures, fieldwork, seminars and on-campus employment. Comprehensive student support services need to address both “visible” and “invisible” disabilities. At Waseda University, while various supports have long been provided to the students with physical disabilities, it has been difficult for those with hard-to-see disabilities such as Learning Disabilities, ADHD and Austism Spectrum Disorder to receive special support services because their disabilities tend to be mistakenly perceived as “laziness” and “personality traits.” In conjunction with the research project of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Waseda University took an initiative to establish the University-wide structure of support for students with special needs. This report intends to explain the process of how a private university prepared to fulfill “reasonable accommodations” along with the new legislation.

　This paper describes the result of ICT-based approach to support hearing-impaired students. An example of collaborative works carried out by university students and staff members at Sapporo Gakuin University is introduced. ICT-based approach is made to,（1）captioning audio-visual teaching materials,（2）Speech dictation using PC, and（3）application of speech recognition software to convert voice to character data. The result is explained and current problems are discussed.

　This article discusses the student support system at Hiroshima Shudo University and a 2015 case of tutoring a developmentally challenged student in the department of English language and literature at HSU. It describes the process in which the student studied for his graduation thesis. He obtained reliable text materials from the Internet, processed them with a concordance program, a text editor, a spreadsheet program, and compiled his results with a word processor.

　Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted at the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 and ratified by the Japanese Diet in 2014, careful and warmhearted supports corresponding to each individual difficulty are desirable especially at school education. Without fondly imagining that ICT is always useful, every schoolteacher should tackle the daily persistent activities for each student in the class for long periods of time. Developing not only wonderful hardware but cheap and easy to handle application is more important than anything else; any schoolteachers can use them. In the present paper, current status and issues of practical use of educational aids based on information communication technology in helping students with difficulties are discussed through the concrete activities performed at the special needs school.

　Special needs education has come to draw much attention from not only the students who have the right of education，but also from educators who are eager to support them. Only recently，Japan has put more emphasis on conducting research from the perspective of Universal Design for Learning（UDL）in foreign language education. This report will introduce the overview of a three-year research using the concept of UDL at the Hirano School Division（elementary school，junior high school，and high school）attached to Osaka Kyoiku University. The Hirano School Division tackles the research to create an educational environment based on UDL and foster their students' abilities to “comprehend，” “think，” and “utilize，” incorporating “collaborative learning” and “the use of ICT materials” in every class. From these two aspects，this paper will introduce and discuss the current situation of English classes at the Hirano Schools，as well as the forthcoming challenges.

　Young people in Japan are being said to display “disinterest in technology” and “disinterest in science.” Therefore，private companies and others have been trying various approaches to increase youngsters' interest in science. For example，we have been holding children's microcomputer experiment classes since 2006. In this manuscript，we describe our approach and its effect on the children's experiment classes. Also，questionnaire results confirmed that these experiment classes are effective in increasing the interest in science of children who take them.

　The purpose of this study is to clarify how collaborative learning affects elementary school class group by utilizing Moodle and tablets to share and exchange students' outcomes. In a class consisting of 26 sixth grade students, the Q-U（Questionnaire Utilities）survey was conducted before and after the implementation of collaborative learning. This pilot implementation took place in April and lasted one month. As a result, student approval, as assessed by the survey, improved. According to another survey, students felt that the classroom atmosphere got better with the new style of learning.

　In this research, we utilised ScratchJr, an application for early elementary school age learners to get a taste of programming. In designing the course, we emphasized interaction among students so that the children could help each other and learn together. It was clear that even in the absence of a lecture from a teacher, students at this level can learn programming. The participants evaluated the class very positively. Further, when comparing the programming products created by students with varying levels of communication amongst their classmates, we found that there was no relation between the number of interactions with others and the quality of the programming product.

　In this paper, we analyze an original questionnaire for students. This questionnaire aims to ask students about their preferred ways of learning and their learning styles. The questionnaire is applied to students attending to the information literacy classes at Konan University in Japan. The results of the questionnaire are processed by principal component analysis combined with decision tree definition to figure out students' “Manabino Style”.

　Second-Language Education in universities in Japan is not only a limited place for multilingual learning but also a place that has the largest number of multilingual learners. However, due to the importance of English education in the globalized world and changes in corporate strategies with the declining birth rate, Second-Language Education faces the most institutional reduction. To resolve this issue, we focused on Flipped Classrooms as an approach to create a new form of learning using the Chinese education plan and system known as “You.” This paper reports the trial cases of Flipped Classrooms based on differences in the methods of taking classes (required or non-required) and teaching classes (pair cooperation or pair non-cooperation) and examines the development and creation of a new model of Second-Language Education.

　People getting fired for posting outrageous tweets（e.g., Bakatter in Japan）is becoming a grave social problem in recent times. Therefore, an investigation into effective ways to teach information ethics is required. We performed experiments using two instruction methods, i.e., lecture- and experiential-based, with first- and third-year university students. Results showed a significant difference between the pre- and post-tests for the student group that received experiential-based instructions. However, no significant difference was found for the lecture-based instruction group. We also found that compared with the lecture-based instruction group, students in the experiential instruction group tended to describe the learning content in their post-instruction introspective writing.

　Statistical training has become more important than ever in the big data era. In the probability statistics where comprehension of testing models and risk management in decision making are most essential, it is necessary to train those involved, regardless of their academic backgrounds, to achieve understanding of sampling, management of risk rates, and testing models.