Research on the Present Situation and Future Perspective of Higher Education in term of Multimedia Utilization.

本研究的目的是对日本国内外高等教育中使用多媒体技术的可能性进行广泛的调查，并根据调查结果展望21世纪高等教育的新学习环境。1995年，我们对日本国立、公立和私立大学多媒体技术的实际使用情况进行了一项事实调查问卷调查，重点是：(1)使用多媒体的实践教育；(2)多媒体设备的状况；(3)目前围绕多媒体使用的问题；(4)未来展望。我们分析了这次调查的结果，并进一步进行了一项研究，访问了在日本多媒体技术使用突出的大学中精心挑选的22个地点。继这一国内研究之后，1996年，我们以北美高等教育机构为中心进行了一项关于在线教育和虚拟大学概念现状的国际调查。本次调查的主要发现是；(1)教育从以教师为中心转向以学习者为中心；(2)学习环境变得更加开放和灵活；(3)计算机网络使教育更加全球化。

The purpose of this study is to conduct an extensive survey within and out of Japan on the possibility of the use of multimedia technologies for higher education and, based on its findings, to prospect a new learning environment in higher education towards the 21st century.In 1995 we conducted a fact-finding questionnair survey on the actual use of multimedia technologies in national, public and private universities throughout Japan with focus upon ; (1) practical education using multimedia, (2) condition of multimedia equipments, (3) the current issues surrounding the use of multimedia, and (4) future prospectives.We analyzed the result of this survey and further conducted a research by visiting 22 sites carefully selected among the universities in Japan where the use of multimedia technologies is prominent.Following this domestic research, in 1996 we conducted an international survey centering on higher educational institutions in North America on the current situation of on-line education and virtual university concept.The primary findings of this survey are ; (1) education shifting from teacher-oriented to learner-oriented, (2)learning environment becoming more open and flexible, (3) education becoming more globalized by the computer network.