“Building a Learning Community as an Open Education in Secondary Education”

  Open education is “resources, tools and practices that adopt an open sharing framework to improve access to education and its effects all over the world”, and as the Internet advances, Open education and Open educational resources has been widely spread around higher education in the United States. Waseda University is developing various activities such as “Waseda Course Channel”.

  On the other hand, in secondary education (junior and senior high school), although the environment of ICT in schools has been improved, the current situation is that the use of ICT for education has not progressed sufficiently.

  In this research, my developed learning materials were linked with MERLOT that is a learning community managed by California State University, and to study "the possibility of open education" and "the way of knowledge in cyber space" in secondary education.

Specifically, it is as follows.

(1) Digitalize contents of teaching materials: Electronic texts and video contents of teaching materials (centered on mathematics and information studies)

(2) Promotion and diffusion of content: Conducting a teaching material creation workshop in cooperation with affiliated academic societies.