Development of groupware for supporting active learning in mass classroom

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26282058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: The Open University of Japan
• Principal Investigator: Kato Hiroshi 放送大学, 教養学部, 教授 (80332146)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 八重樫 文 立命館大学, 経営学部, 教授 (40318647) ; 西森 年寿 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (90353416) ; 望月 俊男 専修大学, ネットワーク情報学部, 准教授 (50379468)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): OKUBAYASHI Taiichiro 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 招聘研究員 (60580941)
• Research Collaborator: ANDO Takuo 立命館大学, 大学院・経営学研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 教育工学 / 高等教育 / アクティブラーニング / グループウェア / 協調学習 / グループワーク / クラスルームオーケストレーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The authors have developed an educational groupware OrchestratingBoard that enables group works in ordinary lectures and exercises at universities to be done easily even for massive students in a lecture hall. This is a Web application, and it is assumed that students access it through the browsers of their own information terminals. The main function is to organize groups on site according to the information of attendees, to share the outcomes within the group and exchange opinions. Practically evaluated in 6 lessons of 4 universities, it has revealed that it works well without any trouble even in a class of 300 students, complex group organization which was difficult with conventional classes becomes possible, subjective evaluation of the students on the effectiveness is also high.

Free Research Field

教育工学