Kumiko Aoki

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a questionnaire study administered to the students (N=424) enrolled in one of Japan's few online distance universities were explored by examining student opinions and learning preferences in regard to five aspects of distance learning identified as important: teacher interaction, content interaction, student interaction, computer interaction and student autonomy.

TL;DR: In higher education, apathy of students towards their study prevails and teachers continue ignoring such student attitudes as mentioned in this paper, thus, the application of technologies in education in Japan is far behind of other developed countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new organizational structure for distance education in which a division of labor can be observed across institutions is proposed, and the authors discuss the discussion of distance education as a whole in terms of its organizational structure.

TL;DR: Aoki et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an open access chapter under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

TL;DR: In this rapidly changing society, it has been widely acknowledged that education needs to happen continuously, lifelong and lifewide as mentioned in this paper. But often times individuals lack awareness of their own learning when it comes to learning outside of formal schooling.