International collaborative research on subjective and continuous improvement of lessons among science and mathematics teachers -Collaborative research among Japan, Canada, the US and Indonesia using e-learning system-

日本的科学和数学教师的日程安排非常忙碌，这使得他们很难参加培训讲习班。此外，参加这种培训研讨会的资金和时间越来越难获得。虽然这是目前的现实，但由于一个国家项目的支持，信息技术和教材数字化领域正在取得巨大进展。然而，很少电子学习为基础的材料，特别是数学和科学教师存在于目前的时间，这是我们希望，一个基于网络的系统将提供给下一代的数学和科学教师，以提高课堂教学的质量。该项目成果介绍了我们在上述条件下进行的试点项目的结果。结果表明，虽然在这一领域有很大的潜力，大部分的潜力仍然没有开发，有几个问题，必须加以解决。对于我们的项目的第一年，2004年，我们已经调查了许多电子学习软件，我们选择使用“头等舱”。为科学教师开发电子学习内容需要两年的时间，然而，我们与来自静冈各地的约27名成员举行了十多次面对面的会议。利用建构主义学习模式，我们正在考虑使用FirstClass开发有趣的学习社区。近三年来，越来越多的北美科学教育研究者正在使用e-learning系统，他们正朝着更高质量和更便宜的软件方向发展，如Moodle。北美的大多数文章和论文都报告了类似的结果，即“只有当学习者反思并感觉到他或她正在积极地投入学习时，才能进行高质量的学习。

Science and math teachers in Japan have extremely busy schedules, making it difficult for them to participate in training workshops. In addition, funding and time off for attending such training seminars is becoming harder to obtain. While this is the current reality, simultaneously great advances are being made in the fields of IT and the digitalization of educational materials due to the support of a national project. However, very little e-learning based materials especially for math and science teachers exist at the present time, and it is our hope that a web-based system will be available for the next generation of math and science teachers to raise the quality of classroom instruction. This project outcome presents the results of our pilot project done under the above mentioned conditions. The results show that while there is a lot of potential in this field, much of that potential remains untapped and there are several problems that must be addressed.For the first year of our project, 2004, we have investigated many e-learning software and we selected to use the "FirstClass". It takes two years to develop e-learning contents for the science teachers however, we have more than ten times face-to-face conference with about 27 members who were from all area in Shizuoka. Using constructivist learning model, we are thinking to develop interesting learning community using FirstClass. For the three years, more and more researchers in science education in North America who are using e-learning system are moving toward to higher quality software and less expensive such as "Moodle". Most of the articles and papers in North America have similar results were reported that "high quality learning is only processed when the learner is reflecting and feeling that he or she is actively committing the learning.