Building infrastructure, "Nexus", for Improvement of Academic Research and Education

我们为千叶大学的学生和教职员工开发了教育和研究支持的基础设施。该基础设施包括两个可视化系统。一个是与课程大纲一起工作，学生自己将相关科目联系起来，然后科目网络出现，为学生和教职员工提供有用的参考。另一种是建立高校科研人员研究关键词数据库，并以适当的视角将其相互关系表现为一个网络。试点决策支持系统的用户表示，研究人员的课程网络和关键词网络信息对他们的课程选择有用。

We developed the infrastructure of education and research support for the students and staffs in Chiba University. This infrastructure includes two visualization systems. One works together with the course syllabus, where the students themselves link the correlated subjects, then network of subjects appears for serving as a useful reference for students and staffs. The other has a database of research keywords of University's research staffs, and then their interrelationship are shown as a network with proper perspective. The users of our pilot decision support systems indicated that the information on course-network and keywords network of researchers have been useful in their course selections.