Global Learning Science and Technology Research Center (SU)

Center Director: Keiko Okawa (Professor, Graduate School of Media Design (KMD))

Main Campus: Mita

In today's highly globalized society, there is a strong demand for individuals who possess a global perspective and can promote mutual understanding and problem-solving through communication. To this end, universities must urgently develop educational environments and programs that not only impart knowledge but also cultivate individuals with the ability to utilize that knowledge to contribute to the international community. Furthermore, in our rapidly evolving and changing information network society, individuals are required to continuously acquire skills and knowledge, making it an urgent task for universities to build a foundation that supports individual learning and growth throughout their lives.

This center will be established as a hub to realize these new university functions by leveraging ICT and learning sciences, to research attractive emergent distance learning methods, to promote their implementation throughout the entire Juku, and to disseminate its results both domestically and internationally. Specifically, our research themes include the study of global and interactive educational methods in various fields; research on emergent learning support systems and emergent learning spaces to support them; and university-wide implementation, including collaboration with overseas bases. Additionally, with a view toward realizing a society of full-fledged lifelong continuing education, we will also focus on research related to continuous skill/career management. We aim to build a model that can sustainably contribute to the development of global talent in various fields such as IT, social sciences, languages, area studies, and economics. As part of our research and empirical experiments in lifelong education, we plan to proceed in collaboration with the Office of Correspondence Courses, which has its administrative office in Mita.

We are establishing this research center to promote the integrated development and practice of the aforementioned education-related technologies.

Distance learning, Global educational environment, ICT-based learning support, Learning sciences, e-Learning, OCW, OER, Digital content, SOI, GC

Global Studio

In today's highly globalized society, there is a strong demand for individuals who possess a global perspective and can promote mutual understanding and problem-solving through communication.

To this end, universities must urgently develop educational environments and programs that not only impart knowledge but also cultivate individuals with the ability to utilize that knowledge to contribute to the international community. Furthermore, in our rapidly evolving and changing information network society, individuals are required to continuously acquire skills and knowledge, making it an urgent task for universities to build a foundation that supports individual learning and growth throughout their lives.

In fiscal year 2010, as part of further strengthening the lifelong education system centered on the Office of Correspondence Courses, we will conduct research and development to implement evening school sessions outside the Tokyo area. In addition, we will collaborate with faculty from various departments to develop curricula, communication environments, and programs to help students acquire global communication skills, and we will implement and evaluate global learning models using classes from various fields as subject matter. Furthermore, we will work on organizational development to establish a university-wide support system and create a training program for distance learning staff. We also plan to develop content for mobile environments as part of our research on learning styles.

■ Implementation Details, Research Outcomes, and Degree of Achievement against the Business Plan for the Fiscal Year

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