Study on Participation of Diverse In-service Teachers to Team Learning and Distance Education

任何一位教师都不能单独解决当前复杂的教育问题。团队合作对于解决组织问题是必不可少的。实践性研究方法的范式解决问题比传统的教育理论和哲学方法更有效。提出了一种新的泛在学习教学研究方法，并应用于利用移动的手机和PDA设备来验证协作和自主学习的有效性和有效性。该方法被应用并证明是有效的，在本科层次的不同学生的大班。在此确认后，该方法被应用于当地高中的团队学习。由六到七名教师组成的团队开发以学习者为中心的课程，这是高中的一种新尝试。培养大批研究生水平的教师，提高他们对日常实际问题进行系统研究的能力，是日本教育面临的紧迫问题。如何提供一个低成本的教师培训系统，并开发适合于工作场所学习的教学方法，是一个迫切需要解决的问题。资讯及通讯科技带给我们现今不断转变的社会，失业及工作重组的情况相当普遍，需要不断更新专业能力。从这些角度来看，协作和自主学习，高质量和低成本的教学方法和灵活的学习系统，为多样化和大量的学习者迫切需要。我们的研究就是在上述观点下进行的。

Any single teacher cannot solve present complicated educational problems alone. Team-working is indispensable for solving organizational problems. A paradigm of practical research method for tackling problems was more effective than conventional approach from educational theory and philosophy for solving such problems. A new method of research on pedagogy for ubiquitous learning was developed and applied to utilize mobile phones and PDA devices to confirm effectiveness and validity for collaborative and autonomous learning. This method was applied and proved valid for large sized class of diverse students at undergraduate level. After this confirmation, this method was applied to a team learning at local high schools. A team of six to seven teachers are formed to develop learner-centered curriculum which is a new trial at high schools. Japanese education faces to the urgent problem of training a large number of teachers at graduate level for enhancing their competency of conducting systematic research on their daily practical problems. It is an urgent problem to provide a low cost teacher training system and develop appropriate instructional methods for learning at workplaces. Information and communication technology brought us the present changing society, where unemployment and restructuring of job are quite common and require ceaseless refreshment of professional competence. From these points of view, collaborative and autonomous learning, high quality and low cost instructional methods and flexible learning system for diverse and large number of learners are urgently needed. Our research was conducted in the above mentioned view point.