Development of Information-Environment Education Programs in Collaborative-type Learning Space on Highly Advanced Information Communication Networks

在信息技术和通信技术构建的新学习环境中，发展信息环境教育方案。这些具有先进技术的课程不仅在学习内容方面进行了检查，而且在教育方法方面进行了检查，旨在提高教育质量。作为技术在教育中的应用，我们开发了遥感题材，并将其引入到学校教育中。遥感技术在空间工程中的高度发展，使我们能够准确地掌握地球环境。然而，遥感几乎没有在学校教育中使用。在我们的课程中，包括遥感学习，学生可以在个人电脑上通过图像处理来分析地球环境。即将信息教育与环境教育相结合，使教育在精度和广度上都超越了传统的对地观测。我们的项目还旨在将学习空间扩展到遥远的学校、学生和教师。在这样的空间中，我们可以管理协作式学习，参与者可以交换每个想法或经验。本研究实现了电视会议系统的协同学习空间，对信息环境教育有一定的改善作用。由于教师需要具备管理教育的新技能，因此我们对现状下教师的知识进行了调查。因此，我们可以把握教师的自我教育能力与对现代社会重大问题的高度积极性之间的关系。在此基础上，对高等教育中基于先进信息通信网络的协同学习进行了研究。前面的这些例子表明了先进技术的新教育方式的先见之明。

In the present research, the programs for information/environment education are developed in the new learning environment which is constructed with information technology and communication technology. These programs with advanced technology examined in terms of not only learning contents but education methods aim to improve quality of education.As the application of technology to education, we developed the subject matter with remote sensing and introduced it to school education. Remote sensing highly developed in the space engineering enabled us to grasp the earth environment precisely. However remote sensing has been hardly used at school education. Students, in our programs including the learning with remote sensing, can analyze the earth environment through image processing on personal computers. Namely the combination of information education and environment education could contribute to the unprecedented education which is beyond traditional earth observation in accuracy and in broadness.Our programs also aim to extend the learning space to the distant schools, students, and teachers. In such space, we can mange collaborative style learning where participants interchange each idea or experience. In the present study, collaborative learning space with TV conference systems is realized and showed the certain improvement for information/environment education.Because teacher should have new skills to manage the education described above, we investigated the knowledge of teachers under the status quo. As a result, we could grasp the relation between the teachers' ability of self-education and the highly motivated approach to considerable issues in the modern society.And furthermore, we investigated the collaborative learning on highly advanced information communication networks at the higher education. Those preceding examples could indicate the foresight of new education style with advanced technology.