English education will start in 2020 in Japanese elementary schools. As English is not used in daily lives in Japan, increasing the students’ motivation to learn English will be really important. It would be essential for pupils to nurture the concrete and strong purpose to learn it Intercultural exchange program using ICT devices would also be desirable to improve students’ motivation. Recently, ICT is used in the ficld of education in increasing number of Asian countries, and some countries invested a lot of money in education and ICT in education was implemented effectively. In CLIL lessons in Italy, teachers conducted various teaching methods using ICT. It will be expected for Japanese teachers to conduct English lessons using ICT effectively in elementary schools.

　This paper introduces Kahoot!, a game-based classroom response system, and discusses its powerful effects on student engagement. Low proficiency EFL learners often have a negative attitude towards English language learning, which is likely to have kept them from learning it. In 2017, students in an English class for low proficiency learners showed a positive attitude change towards English language learning, and they seemed to feel that they have improved their English language skills. As their engagement in learning activities is considered to have helped them improve their skills, it can be concluded that Kahoot! could play an important role in helping low proficiency EFL learners by engaging them in engaging them in learning.

　In this research, we designed and performed online collaborative learning outside of classes in classical lectures. In the previous year, the effectiveness of this method was confirmed. However, the problem was found that some students withdrew from the program due to a motivation decrease. The following year, we performed an improvement to stimulate learning motivation to prevent withdrawal. We confirmed the effect of improvement from the participation rate of students and questionnaire surveys.

　The Correspondence University has four teaching methods (face-to-face class，text-based class, broadcast class, class through communication media). We teach with “face-to-face class” and “text-based class”.There are a merit and a demerit for each method.We conducted a blended schooling that combines “face-to-face class” and “class through communication media” in this year. And we imposed group learning. In this paper，we report on the trial result of the blended schooling.

　In this paper，we describe a case wherein we improved some problems that students with insufficient music skills face while composing music by constructing a lesson using a music creation method we invented，which is a problem in a "Music Information Processing" class for music production（composition）with a computer music software，GarageBand. With this method，music can be practiced while easily understanding and using basic theory，such as code theory for full-scale music production，chord progressions，and melody creation. It is easy to create a melody without corruption due to many notes being out of tune or rhythm that suits the chord progression and its rhythm without losing tonality.

　In this study，we examined the reliability and validity of peer assessments that were conducted by a number of higher education students. We compared the assessments that were undertaken using a rubric for an online class of graduate school students to understand what kind of changes could be seen in the reliability and the validity of peer assessments，as compared to when a rubric was not used. We then considered whether peer assessment could be replaced to a teacher evaluation. We found that peer assessments that utilized a rubric were not reliable enough. However，the reliability and validity improved when students used a rubric than when they did not use one. In addition，we found that for peer assessments that utilized a rubric，the reliability and validity tended to be higher when the point of view was objective and was an expression that the assessor did not hesitate about.

Conversely，it was found that when a point of view was subjective，the reliability tended to be lower. The reliability and validity of an evaluation improved when a rubric was introduced in peer assessment; however，the peer assessment knew that examination was more necessary to do it with the substitute of the teacher evaluation.

　It is important to raise the self-esteem of schoolchildren. In this study, children looked after a weak robot (in other words, not a smart communication robot) for a long period to study whether this would raise their self-esteem. As time went by, the children listened to the robot talk and, finally, they were able to communicate with it. Furthermore, compared with the first questionnaire, administered immediately before the robot was introduced, the questionnaire administered after the robot was introduced showed that the self-esteem of the children had increased significantly.

　In a society where children often have access to the Internet not only at school but also at home，in order to implement information moral education，it is necessary to understand parent values of Internet devices. And it is also necessary to grasp parental consciousness about children having Internet devices. Therefore，in this research，we investigated the consciousness of parents who have children with Internet devices. As a result，it was suggested that formulation of rules is effective when parents and children are discussing information security. Otherwise，it was suggested that filtering was effective.

　This study investigated the relation between Roman letter education and Roman letter input. The spelling selection and input speed of 150 College students were compared without conversion into Chinese characters. The results showed that the spelling selection was based on the “Kunrei system” currently taught in elementary schools. As a result，there was a tendency to select the spelling with more keystrokes，or using hard-to-reach keys. In addition，the students with inferior input speed had inadequate understanding of Roman letter，therefore might also lack knowledge of spelling related to contracted sound.

　It was clarified by a questionnaire survey that when university students input on smartphone，more than 90％ users use flick input / toggle input for Japanese，but for foreign languages，flick input / toggle input and input by QWERTY are almost around 50％. There is a significant relationship between their touch typing proficiency level in PC and foreign language input method on smartphone. One of the reasons why Japanese university students prefer smartphones over PCs，is they can use flick input for Japanese language. That is because it has high affinity with Japanese syllabary and easy to acquire input skills.

　The purpose of this study was to verify the effects of nursing manager education through distance learning in online classrooms at their workplace. We used a questionnaire to survey 74 nursing administrators from nine hospitals within a single medical corporation who attended an online lecture. We compared 48 datasets before and after the lecture. We could not find any significant change in answers to questions about knowledge and behavior on training contents except for knowledge on labor management. Although the competence scores of nursing managers assessed using the Nursing Administrator’s Competence Assessment Scale tended to increase, some variations were evident. In particular, limiting participation in the lecture to head nurses and their superiors （n = 33） resulted in significantly increased competence scores after attending the lecture. In addition, 86.5% of respondents stated after the lecture that they wished to continue participating in the same type of learning in the future.

　In Computer Supported Collaborative Learning research，gaining a guideline to carry out appropriate scaffolding by analyzing mechanism of successful collaborative interaction and extracting indicators to identify groups where collaborative process is not going well，can be considered as the most important preoccupation，both for research and for educational implementation. For the process analysis，coding and statistical analysis to chat data are often adopted as a research method. In this research，we developed a method for automating highly accurate coding by deep learning technology，and its accuracy and effectiveness was evaluated. As a result，it became clear that our method realizes the high accuracies outperforming the machine learning baselines. In addition，the feasibility of analysis of collaborative processes and instructional intervention in real time，was suggested.