Flipped Classroom, active Learning?

China has become the second largest Internet-using country in the world, but the percentage of use by those aged above 50 is extremely low, at less than 3.5%. Although there have been many studies conducted on Internet support methods, they have focused on support for children and working adults, not for the elderly. In this paper, we first investigate senior citizens' anxiety and needs to use the Internet as well as difficulties and obstacles they often face. Next, to ease their anxieties and satisfy their needs, we propose a system called the Senior Internet Support & Learning Environment. Finally, we demonstrate the system's usability. The implications of the study are valuable: it is based on the conditions of China and highlights the differences faced in China in comparison to overseas studies. Moreover, the proposed environment can provide Internet developers with a better understanding of the situation of local senior citizens with respect to the Internet, as well as a framework for further implementing the development phase for narrowing the digital divide in China.

Supporting senior citizens using the internet in china

Conceptual Framework for Assessing Human Anxiety on the Internet

There are some practical Web-based testing systems and drill type CAI with multimedia questioning. Many of these systems do not adapt adequate answering methods for multimedia materials. In this research, we propose a uniform model of multimedia questioning and its description form. And we develop DrilLs-M: multimedia testing system with operation style answering. It enables some natural user actions as answering, such as, designation of areas and drawing lines with a mouse and pen tablet. It supports experiential learning effectively. We introduce suitable answering methods and various practical examples for some learning items of Kanji letter shape.

Operation-style answering in multimedia testing system DrilLs-M for Kanji letter shape learning

Standardization Activities of Content Description - MPEG-7(Special Edition Metadata Standards for Information Retrieval)

The purpose of this paper is to develop an Internet Anxiety Scale (IASv1) by referring to the research of Presno and the computer anxiety scale, and to examine the differences between Internet anxiety and computer anxiety. IASv1 consists of the following four factors: “Internet reliability anxiety,” “Internet knowledge anxiety,” “Avoiding the Internet,” and “Internet search anxiety.” As for the relationship between IASv1 and the computer anxiety scale (ACAS), it can be said that IASv1 is roughly similar to ACAS. However, only “Internet reliability anxiety” was different from other factors, suggesting that the IASv1 is a necessary scale for early identification and intervention for students with Internet anxiety.

The Development of the IASv1 Internet Anxiety Scale

In this study, improvements were made to the educational materials that aim to develop teaching skills using ICT of first-year students in teacher training, and such materials were implemented. Results showed that regarding teaching skills using ICT, items that reflected the students' own ability in information utilization primarily showed improvements. From this, it is surmised that this led to the learning of the basics of teaching skills using ICT that are needed for first-year students. On the other hand, changes in the assumed direction were not observed for awareness of the view of classes or AL. As a result of categorizing the self-analysis descriptions of students regarding their awareness of AL, negative effects were shown that lead to the issue of this study, as well as positive effects from changes in the awareness of students.

The Development of Teaching Skills Using ICT in Teacher Training: Practices in First-Year Introduction for ICT

In this research, we target students' photos for school use. When using students' photos in a class newspaper, teachers have to treat students equally. Usually in this case, the teacher counts the number of times a student appears in the photos. However, by only using this method it is difficultto feature students equally, since there are various kinds of photos, such as individual photos, group photos, etc. Considering this particularity of school use of photos, we propose the concept of \"presence,\" which expresses the impact of the face in a photo, by examining every subject in the photo, and measuring the students equally^using the; \"presence\" points of each subject. In this paper, we present a regression formula of \"presence\" using simple and objective items. Next, we present an experiment we conducted which measured perceptions of equality of student exposure in photos using the sum of \"presence\" points. The result of the experiment was the group of photos where \"presence\" points were within the predicted \"range of equality\" was judged to be fair.

A proposal for metadata to express students' "presence" in digital photos : Use in the determination of equality in groups of photos

The purpose of this research is to create a comprehensive multimedia online quiz system on the Web that makes it easy to create and administer a "rich" online quiz, and to reuse and exchange it efficiently with collaboration from specialists such as teachers or curators. For the first phase, we proposed a method of packaging of multimedia online quiz, and developed the online quiz system. Also, an experiment was conducted under a high speed network environment. Based on the results of first phase, we are developing the authoring tool of multimedia online quiz for reuse and efficient exchange.

Multimedia online quiz system in collaboration with specialists

We considered the knowledge and skills that are required for information morals education at high schools in Japan. Clearly its knowledge and skills are critical for high school students. We demonstrate the problems with the teaching material of information morals in Japan. Teaching materials are needed to help students cope with the problems caused by utilizing the knowledge and the skills of the information society to provide a more general way of thinking that can apply other examples and a positive attitude toward the information society. We proposed teaching material based on the goal-based scenario theory. From our practice results that used teaching material whose subject was spam e-mail, we achieved the learning goals of the teaching material.

Kyoko Umeda

Papers

The Development of the IASv1 Internet Anxiety Scale

The Development of Teaching Skills Using ICT in Teacher Training: Practices in First-Year Introduction for ICT

A proposal for metadata to express students' "presence" in digital photos : Use in the determination of equality in groups of photos

Multimedia online quiz system in collaboration with specialists

Proposal of Teaching Material of Information Morals Education Based on Goal-Based Scenario Theory for Japanese High School Students