Research on Successful Factors to Develop Educational Activities Using Network

本研究旨在提出有效教育活动的具体方案，探讨利用互联网、视讯会议等网络工具开展合作工作的成功因素。为此，我们首先对在国外开展实践活动的教师和几个成功利用网络开展教育项目的教师进行了问卷调查。调查发现，积极利用网络实施教育计划的教师存在一些问题。其中之一是他们不容易为有用的活动制定充分的计划并获得与技术有关的支持，因此，我们发现这是学校和教师参与教育项目并从参与或管理项目的其他人那里获得各种支持的有效途径。此外，我们总是找到协调人支持这些教育活动，并通过这些项目向教师和学生提供各种建议和信息技术(IT)帮助。另一个教师面临的问题是如何能够给学生持续的学习动力。我们建议制定一个不依赖于伙伴学生学习的学习计划。换句话说，教师与外国合作学校制定了几个共同的目标，并应该具体地制定自己的计划来实现共同的目标。我们在研究的基础上提出了一个新的交流计划。我们给了我们的学生和伙伴的学生一个共同的任务，在给定的条件下应该解决。在交换有关这项任务的信息时，他们可以使用网络或其他材料来促进他们的学习。通过设置几个常规的视频会议链接，要求他们相互汇报自己的学习情况，并再次阐明了研究如何支持学生使用外语的必要性。我们已经开发了翻译系统。

In this research we aimed to propose concrete plans for effective educational activities, investigating successful factors to develop collaborative works using the network tools such as the Internet and videoconferencing.First of all, for this purpose we took questionnaires to teachers who performed practical activities and several educational projects with successful results using the network with foreign countries. It is find out that teachers who have practiced educational plans actively using network have several problems. One of them is that it is not easy for them to make fully worked-out plans for useful activities and to get support related to technologies.As a result, we found it is an effective way for schools and teachers to take part in educational projects and get various kinds of support from other people who participated in or manage the projects. Furthermore we always found coordinators who supported these educational activities and gave many kinds of advice and IT (Information Technology) assistance to teachers and students through the projects.Another problem for teachers is how they are able to give students continual motivation for learning. We proposed to make a learning plan that does not depend on partner students' study. In other words, teachers set several common goals with foreign partner schools and should concrete their own plans to attain their common goals.We proposed a new exchanging plan based on our research. We gave both of our students and partner's students a common task that should be solved under given conditions. While exchanging information on this task, they can promote their studies using the web or other materials. By setting several regular links using video-conferencing, they are required to report their studies to each other.Moreover, the necessity for researches on how to support students using a foreign language was clarified again. We have developed the system for translating.