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日程非常繁忙，很难参加培训研讨会。此外，参加这种培训讨论会的经费和时间越来越难以获得。虽然这是目前的现实，但同时，由于国家项目的支持，在信息技术和教育资料数字化领域取得了巨大进展。然而，目前针对数学和科学教师的电子学习材料非常少，我们希望下一代数学和科学教师可以使用基于网络的系统来提高课堂教学质量。这个项目成果展示了我们在上述条件下进行的试点项目的结果。结果表明，虽然这一领域有很大的潜力，但其中大部分潜力尚未开发，有几个问题必须解决。在我们项目的第一年，2004年，我们调查了许多电子学习软件，我们选择使用“first class”。为科学教师开发电子学习内容需要两年的时间，但我们有来自静冈县各个地区的约27名成员参加了十多次面对面的会议。运用建构主义学习模式，我们想用FirstClass来打造有趣的学习社区。近三年来，北美越来越多使用e-learning系统的科学教育研究人员开始转向“Moodle”等质量更高、价格更低的软件。北美的大多数文章和论文都有类似的结果，“高质量的学习只有在学习者反思和感觉他或她积极地投入学习时才会被处理。”

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.