New Ideas of What University Undergraduate Program Ought to Be and Curricular Reform in Special Reference to the Students Majoring Science and Technology

本研究的目的是通过研究课程的历史视角以及大学教育应该如何发展，为大学改革，特别是理工科大学的改革提供一个指导原则。(1)本项目的首席研究员小川方明分析了20世纪90年代高等教育改革的进程，特别是参照普通教育的改革，并提出了21世纪研究型大学本科生和研究生教育的可能特征。他还报告了他访问的美国和欧洲一些大学的教育改革现实。(2)Nishimori调查了日本大学数学课堂上发生的事情，得出结论：为了应对学生态度的变化，教师必须做出巨大努力，在课堂上进行互动教学。(3)小林对北海道大学和波特兰州立大学的通识教育改革进行了比较研究。(4)细川报告了计算机辅助教学软件的前景和内容，以及基于Web的计算机辅助教学软件对我国大学教育的迫切重要性。Imizu开发了一个特别侧重于信息素养技能的在线计算机培训课程，为学生提供与学生的背景和速度相匹配的学习机会。

Purpose of this research is to obtain a guiding principle for university reform, particularly in science and technology, by studying the historical perspective of curricula as well as ideas how university education ought to be.(1) Ogasawara, the head investigator of this project, analyzed the processes of the reform in higher education in l990s in special reference to that of general education and proposed possible features of undergraduate and graduate education in 21st century in research universities. He also reported on the realities of education reform in some of the universities he visited in the US and Europe. (2) Nishimori investigated what was happening in classes of mathematics in Japanese universities and concluded that teachers had to make, to cope with the change of students' attitude, a great effort to teach interactively in their classes. (3) Kobayashi made comparative study of the reform of general education in Hokkaido University and Portland State University. (4) Hosokawa reported the perspective of the CAI software and its contents, and the urgent importance of the one based on Web to our university education. Imizu developed an online computer training courses specially focused on information literacy skills which provided students with learning opportunities that matched background and pace of the students.