Study on Utilization of Advanced Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education

为了利用先进的信息和通信技术（ICT）和多媒体技术促进高等教育中新的教育方法和教学方法的研究和开发，政府、工业或学术组织和部门提出了各种建议。在本研究中，研究人员访问了国外（主要是北美、欧洲、亚洲和大洋洲）和我国的优秀案例，收集和分析了印刷资料和访谈，积累了最新的数据和有价值的发现。除了卫星通信、多媒体和互联网等信通技术使用的最新情况外，他们还报告了数字教育内容的开发和分发、欧洲高等教育中数字内容的版权处理、北美和欧洲教育软件的质量评估标准、教师在课堂上使用信通技术的发展、为学生和各种支持中心和组织提供信息学和信息素养学习，以促进ICT的使用，残疾学生教育中的媒体使用，日本高等教育中ICT使用的优秀案例，美国的虚拟大学等等。结果通过印刷报告及其主页传播。希望这些研究成果能为日本高等教育的改革提供借鉴。

To promote the research and development of new educational methodologies and pedagogies in higher education by utilizing advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and multimedia technology, various proposals have been made by governmental, industrial or academic organizations and sectors. In this study, researchers visited excellent cases in overseas (mainly, North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania) and in our country, collected and analyzed printed materials and interviews, and accumulated the latest data and valuable findings. In addition to the latest situation of ICT uses, such as satellite communication, multimedia and Internet, they reported the development and distribution of digital educational contents, copyright processing of digital contents in European higher education, quality evaluation criteria for educational software in North America and Europe, faculty development on ICT use in the classroom, informatics and information literacy learning for students and various support centers and organizations to facilitate ICT use, media utilization in education for disabled students, excellent cases in ICT use in Japanese higher education, virtual universities in the United States and so on.The results are disseminated by a printed report and its homepage. We expect these results will be utilized for the reform in Japanese higher education.