Conveners
Education Informatics Workshop
- RuShan Chen ()
- Juling Shih ()
- Minoru Nakazawa ()
- Kazuya Takemata ()
Education Informatics Workshop
- Minoru Nakazawa ()
- Kazuya Takemata ()
- RuShan Chen ()
- Juling Shih ()
Tosh discusses the educational paradigm for New Education Normal. Topics such as “What are the future skills?” and “Ambiance for Authentic Learning: How to implement such skills in authentic learning?” are elaborated.
This workshop aims at identifying the essential issues involved in the fundamental components of authentic education, especially in the realm of authentic learning, in the New Education Normal and then demonstrates some experimental showcases at various tiers.
In this part of the session, innovative new educational practices are showcased. We intend to share some successful educational...
The Scenario-Issue-Resolution (SIR) instructional model is introduced to nurture students' abilities to tackle complex problems that are grounded on scenario-based issues. It teaches to intrigue students' foresight. SIR is oriented from issue-based inquiry and grounded on the socioscientific issues (SSI) that lie in resolving open and ill-structured world problems that are controversial with...
Dr. Takemata's team developed a STEAM curriculum to nurture K-12 students' computational thinking skills in the surrounding living environment. With the concepts of SDGs, the purpose of the learning is to think seriously about the future of the society where they will live as full-fledged members of the society. The proposed hands-on and heads-on workshop enhances active learning in PBL to...
English Writing classes were conducted between Kansai University and Chihlee University for several semesters in the virtual classroom, where all students worked in teams to interact and acquire writing skills in English. Based on their interests and curiosities, the students explore their societies and compare their cultural values and lifestyles. Through writing activities, they acquired how...
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses have been collaboratively conducted between the Department of Business and Management at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore and Kansai University/Kansai University of International Studies in Japan. Students learning and interaction are all conducted in the virtual classroom asynchronously. The realm of learning is to acquire business...
With the application of the model of design thinking, Dr. Nakazawa incorporates features of e-portfolios into reflective learning for authentic assessment. The self-awareness of the values from learning and the process of meta-cognitive learning activities are the keys to authentic assessment in New Education Normal.
Before the Pandemic, university students and corporate staff of the HR departments from IBM, ANA, and Fuji Xerox, among others, gathered in Tokyo once a year to have a communication and negotiation workshop to enhance their negotiation skills. The purpose is to develop and enrich their human resource skills through the interaction of multi-tiered age groups. During the Pandemic, such...
