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

在非理工科大学，科学教育日益受到重视，但也遇到了很大的困难。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自然科学的学习，而在入学考试中不重要的理科科目也被他们中的大多数人忽视了。因此，给他们一个初步的教训是必不可少的。本研究旨在开发基于网络的科学教育系统，以辅助此类教育。在项目的第一年，我们开发了我校基于局域网的教育系统的框架。本系统以Unix为操作系统，实现了电子邮件和新闻等功能，并通过Internet与外界建立了良好的联系，实现了对学生个人的详细说明和对学生学习进度的逐一查询。1996年在理大召开的日本化学软件学会年会上报告了丰硕的成果，并以文章形式发表在《化学软件》上。在项目的最后一年里，我们集中精力开发了应载入系统的内容。不同领域的教材特点各不相同。利用Java语言，专门为物理化学课程设计了模拟、三维动画等对话式、动态化素材。这一进展在1997年上述学会的年度会议上得到了报告，并将很快作为一篇独立文章发表在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.