On the Improvement of the Curriculum and Content of Science and Mathematical Educations in Teacher's College for the Highly Information-Oriented Society

今天，多媒体教材的使用和个人计算机的读写能力至少对中小学生来说是必要的，特别是在高度信息化社会的科学和数学教育中。然而，目前在职的教师和师范生可能没有足够的能力来适应高度信息化的社会。因此，我们开展了这个项目，对师范院校的科学与数学教育课程和内容进行改进，然后将我们的项目成果在网络上发布到基于Web的学习（以下简称WBL，即通过WWW的学习方式）。科学和数学教育改革初步开展。教材以多媒体的形式开发，最后以超文本的形式制作。令我遗憾的是，它们没有完全向公众开放，因为埼玉大学的局域网没有为WWW提供服务。因此，我们的WBL网站通过东京馆出版公司的“WWW.e-sensei.ne.jp”网站向埼玉县的教师开放。之后，我们将问卷发给了目前在我们WBL工作的教师。我们收集了教师对问卷的反馈，然后根据他们的期望，WBL上的资源有三种。他们首先是科学实验的信息资源，其次是他们交流意见和信息的网站，第三是他们在主页（HP）上实践教育思想的网站。现在，我们的项目可以发展到下一个阶段，对在职教师的经常性教育（培训）将通过WBL进行。

Today, the use of multimedia teaching materials and the literacy of personal computer are necessary at least to the students of elementary and secondary schools, especially in science and mathematical educations for the highly information-oriented society. However, the teacher presently employed and the student of the teacher's college may not have enough ability in adaptation to the highly information-oriented society. Our project was therefore carried out to improve on the curriculum and content of science and mathematical educations in the teacher's college, and then to release our project's results to Web based learning (hereafter WBL ; it is the learning method through WWW ) in net work.The reform in science and mathematical educations was initially carried out. The teaching materials were developed in the multimedia style and finally, they could be remade to hypertext style. To my regret, they were not opened completely to the public, because LAN in Saitama University was not served for WWW. Our WBL site was therefore opened to the teachers in Saitama prefecture through the site of " WWW.e-sensei.ne.jp" of Toyo-kan publishing company. After that we sent our questionnaire to teachers presently employed on the our WBL. The responses of teachers to our questionnaire were collected, and then as concerns their expectations, there were three kinds of resources on WBL. They were first, the informational resources for the science experimentation, secondly, the site of the exchange among their comments and informations, and thirdly, the site to put their educational ideas in practice in home page (HP). Now, our project can grow up to next stage which the recurrent education (training) of teachers presently employed will be carried out through WBL.