THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION SYSTEM BASED ON THE NETWORK FOR NON-SCIENCE ORIENTED UNIVERSITY

在科学教育日益重要的今天，非科技型大学的科学教育面临着很大的困难。许多学生缺乏对自然科学的基本理解和知识。因为他们中的一些人很久以前就放弃了学习自然科学，而在入学考试中不重要的科学科目被大多数人忽视了。因此，对他们进行初步的教育是必不可少的。我们的研究旨在开发基于网络的科学教育系统，以帮助这种教育。在项目的第一年，我们在我们大学的一个本地网络上开发了教育系统的框架。我们的系统采用UNIX作为操作系统，包括电子邮件和新闻系统。虽然我们的系统是通过互联网与外部世界紧密相连的，但我们还是设计了个别学生的指定和个别检查他们的进度。1996年在立友大学举行的日本化学软件学会年会上报告了这一成果，并在j.c hem.Software杂志上发表了一篇文章。在项目的最后一年，我们集中精力开发系统中应该加载的内容。不同领域的教材特点各不相同。通过使用“Java”，专门为物理和化学设计了会话和动态材料，例如模拟和三维动画。这一进展已在1997年的上述学会年会上发表，并将很快以独立文章的形式出现在J.Chem.Software上。

Science education which has become more important nowadays, meets with a big difficulty in a non-science oriented university. Many students lack presupposed fundamental comprehension and knowledge about natural science. Because some of them have given up studying natural science long ago and subjects of science which are not importantin the entrance examination have been neglected by most of them. Therefore it is indispensable to give a preliminary lesson to them. Our research aims at the developement of the science education system based on network in order to aid such kind of education.At the first year of the project, we developed the frame-work of the education system on a local network in our university. E-mail and news systems have been involved in our system by the use of UNIX as OS.Although our system are substantially connected with the world outside through internet, specifying of individual students and checking individually their progress are designed. The fruitful results were reported at the anual conference of the society of Japanese Chemical Software held at Rikkyou unversity in 1996, and further it was published as an article in J.Chem.Software.For the last year of the project, we concentrated on the developement of the contents which shoud be loaded in the system. The characteristics of the teaching materials are different each other from field to field. By use of "Java", conversational and dynamic materials such as simulation and three dimensinal animation have been designed particularly for physics and chemistry. Such progress was reported at the anual conference of the above mentioned society in 1997, and will appear as an independent article in J.Chem.Software soon.