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

任何一个教师都不可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不可或缺的。解决问题的实践研究方法范式比传统的教育理论和哲学方法更有效。本文提出了一种新的泛在学习教学法研究方法，并将其应用于利用移动电话和PDA设备来验证协作学习和自主学习的有效性和有效性。将该方法应用于本科生的大班级，并证明了该方法的有效性。经过验证后，将该方法应用于当地高中的一个学习小组。为开发以学生为中心的课程，在高中试行了6 ~ 7名教师组成的小组。日本教育面临的迫切问题是培养大批研究生水平的教师，以提高他们对日常实际问题进行系统研究的能力。如何提供一个低成本的教师培训系统，并制定适合工作场所学习的教学方法，是一个迫切需要解决的问题。信息和通信技术给我们带来了当今不断变化的社会，失业和工作结构调整非常普遍，需要不断刷新专业能力。从这些角度来看，迫切需要为多样化和大量的学习者提供协作和自主学习，高质量和低成本的教学方法和灵活的学习系统。我们的研究就是在上述的观点下进行的。

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.