Possibility to promote citizens' utilisation of public information through large-scale national online courses

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K20512
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 8:Sociology and related fields
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: Yoshida Masami 千葉大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80221670)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-07-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 市民社会 / オンライン講座 / ソーシャルキャピタル / ソーシャルメディア / 行政資料

Outline of Final Research Achievements

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we encountered a myriad of challenges while focusing on the online educational projects in the foreign country. Albeit with restrictions, we were able to explicate the distinguishing features of online courses as well as the message exchange mechanisms that emerged within them, via the publication of a total of seven international academic journals, four international conference reports, and one domestic conference report. These findings were shared with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Thailand which offers a large-scale online course, leading to the allocation of project funds by the Ministry. The project involved a partnership between the applicant, Chulalongkorn University, and King Mongkut's University of Technology, culminating in the development of a novel T-MOOCs course, which was linked to a concrete social contribution.

Free Research Field

国際教育開発

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

オンライン講座の効果については通常、参加者の個別の学習達成やそれを通して生まれる社会的効果で議論される。本研究では、講座のコンテンツや個別の学習に加えて、講座内に発生する学習コミュニティーの特徴や意義について最新の分析手法を活用して考察している。研究成果は学術データベースにインデックスされているTier 1雑誌を含む国際学術雑誌を通して広く公開されている。一方、本研究を契機として新たな講座の設置と試行が関係する行政機関と申請者により展開する社会的効果も生まれている。